1969 road runner convertible stereo

[barf75]

Driving 60 miles an hour with the top down my original stereo leaves much to be desired. The convertible has no back speakers and only a dash speaker for noise. I change the speaker out for a better one but the sound is still lacking. Any ideas would be helpful. Should I go with kick panel speakers or something else. Thanks for your input.

 

[metaldad]

i have a '68 'vert. i do not want to punch holes anywhere.
i cruise with either a bosch radio, powered by 18v bosch batteries, or a small klein player, either hooked up to a mp3 player.

 

[GTXperience]

An option would be to have your stock stereo rebuilt with the internals replaced with 1) a AM/FM tuner, 2) an amp and 3) a MP3 input jack. Then, replace the mono dash speaker (and this is if you don't want to add any others in the vert) with one that has dual voice coils so that you have stereo/left & right channels.

There are other options for hidden head units in the glovebox/trunk w/wireless remotes and speaker boxes in the trunk, etc. It just depends on how much sound you want and how much you want to change/modify your interior. GL.

 

[PurpleBeeper]

I have a '70 vert with the same issue. I already have an aftermarket stereo. What I've done so far is to buy a 2-speaker "frame" that replaces the center dash "oblong" speaker (like GTXperience mentioned). I also plan to cut holes in my kick panels because those are pretty cheap/easy to get.

The back seat is the problem. I don't want to cut the rear interior panels (expensive & hard to find). "Back in the day" I had two house speaker boxes with 6"x9" car speakers in them just laying in the back seat...but I rarely had rear seat passengers back then.... and ran the wires under the door sill plates.

I've heard of under-seat speakers as well, but I've never used them.

 

[69SatelliteConvertible]

I have these, I have a cheap am/fm/aux input (no CD)radio sitting in the glovebox, it is about 3" deep, really need a amplifier but for now I'm happy. They slide right under the bench seat, but if they are under the seat and you sit down you know they are there.....

 

[440+6]

Headphones lol

 

[metaldad]

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The back seat is the problem. I don't want to cut the rear interior panels (expensive & hard to find). "Back in the day" I had two house speaker boxes with 6"x9" car speakers in them just laying in the back seat...but I rarely had rear seat passengers back then.... and ran the wires under the door sill plates.
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back in the day, somewhere between charger and satellite, used to drive around with a bass bin in the back seat. think it was a gran prix

 

[PurpleBeeper]

Headphones lol

I did that too! Had a Walkman with three splitters for 4 sets of headphones! LOL