1969 Radio Question

[bertfam]

Ed, do you have any info that says they were dropped in 1969? Did they find they really did not serve any purpose after studies on '68 and earlier cars?

Warren, there are several threads on the NCRS regarding this and probably other sites as well, but the clincher is the AIM's.

For example (and see below), the 69 Camaro AIM shows the note John quoted and the 69 Corvette AIM doesn't have the reference to the collectors that the 68 AIM does. The only difference between the two is that the 69 Camaro AIM has the change note indicating that the change happened some time during the model year. No way to know exactly, but the date of 8-22-68 means it probably occurred either very early in production, or even before production started. The 69 Corvette AIM doesn't have a note, so that means it took place before production started. I've included pictures showing the 68 and 69 Camaro AIM differences and also the 68 and 69 Corvette differences below.

As for dealer installed radios, yes, it's very possible. There might even be a Service Note stating something to the fact that if customers complain of radio static noise to install the collectors, but as of yet I haven't found one.

Ed

[Krateness]

Sorry Warren. I'm not going to get in a p!55!ng contest with you but they weren't. Read THIS from John Hinckley.

That's "carryover NOTE removed", which reflects removal of the '68 static collectors; after many years of installing them, they finally determined that the collectors didn't accomplish anything, and cancelled them on all car lines.

There's a slim chance that some very early 69's came with the collectors, but certainly not on Andy's July, 1969 car.

However, I'm not here to change anyone's mind. You believe what you want to believe and I'll believe what I want to believe.

But getting back to Andy. It looks like you purchased the AM radio on ebay that I referenced above?

Ed

Yah I went ahead and bought it. For the price it’s not a big risk and at least it puts something into my back pocket.

As a side question does anyone restore the original speakers?

[bertfam]

As a side question does anyone restore the original speakers?

Yes, there are several places but it's kind of expensive. HERE'S ONE for example. I've never used him but this is just an example.

I purchased reproduction speakers for my 69 Corvette several years ago because they were cheaper than getting my originals re-coned. I got them from Gary Thompson at ELECTRO-TECH. VERY reasonable prices and they sound great! I'm not sure if he has speakers for the Camaro, but give him a call anyway.

Hopefully someone will reply that's had their speakers reconed.

Ed

[KurtS]

I've never seen any 69 Yenko with an AM/FM. Yenko was cheap and never spent what he didn't have to....

[firstgenaddict]

I've never seen any 69 Yenko with an AM/FM. Yenko was cheap and never spent what he didn't have to....

That's for sure... I think he saved $10 per wheel having the Atlas foundry cast the wheels VS buying torque thrusts -

Bert perhaps U79/D55 not being available together was an early note?
 
Dave's old L78 convertible 05A, (Evan M. owns it now) has U79 and D55... here are the docs and some photos. 

[bertfam]

Yeah, sorry guys. I think I was reading the options page wrong. It says U79 wasn't available with "U57 & D55". I erroneously read that to be not available with U57 OR D55, when it's actually not available with U57 AND D55.

Ed