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TR6 am/fm/cd player for TR6

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I'd like to pull the stock am/fm/8 track player from my 75 TR6 and replace it with an am/fm/cd player. I'm not looking for anything fancy..just something that works reasonably well. Any suggestions as to brands/models..that might fit the original space pretty well? Also, how do you get to the radio antenna to replace it? I assume its somewhere up above the hood latch. Any help/suggestions/tech tricks would be greatly appreciated. I always use this forum to get information before starting on a project with my 6, and it's paid off quite well!
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Hey Steven,
I am wondering the same thing about the cd player thing. As I finish my car up I know i'm gonna have to get a cd player. Do you know or does anybody know what speakers work well? Ok about the antenna. My Antenna is under the dash where you would replace it but a guy that lives by me has his antenna in the fender and had to pull of the fender to place his. Well thats all I know. Happy motoring.
Eric
(the weather has been in the 50s the last three days so i've been triumphing)
 
CD player? Radio? I took mine out long ago - couldn't hear it!

Bill
 
exactly!....but I WANT to hear mine at least somewhat muted beneath the roar of the exhaust notes. Besides, the 8 track tape player doesn't work. If it did, I wouldn't bother,seeing as I have about 150 8 track tapes. Most of the newer cd players certainly look small enough to fit into the radio well with ease. To get to the radio antenna you have to take off the fender???????LOL.....Even a TR6 can't be that goofy.
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Yeah having to take of the fender. Well I think that is what the guy had to do. His is a 76 TR6 so it might be different but i'm almost certain he had to take his fender off to fix the antenna or maybe it was something else but i think it is the antenna. Oh well i could be mistaken
Eric
 
If it is a pain to get to then remove the wire at the radio and just run a new one to where YOU want it and leave the old one where it is. Zer
 
I have a 75 TR6, and the only reason I want to change the radio antenna is because some idiot snapped it off before I bought the car and replaced it with something that might fit a Chevy Suburban. On the left hand side of the drivers seat, under the dash there seems to be an access hole...........I hope it doesn't mean I have to stand on my head again......
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You can get access to the antenna by removing the inner fender splash guard. Oncer you take that off, you will have no problems mounting any type of antenna you want.
I wnated to make my stereo completely stealth and powerful enough to hear at speed with the top down. I purchased a Sony AM/FM cd player which is rated 40WattsX4, a six cd changer, and a Sony two channel amp rated at 65 wattsx2. I mounted this all in the trunk on a piece of 1/2 plywood which I covered with the replacement trunk panel. I run the entire system with a Sony joystick remote which is mounted to the dash support. I have JBL 6x9's mounted in boxes on the rear deck that are easily removed, and 4" round JBL's in the kidney pads.
 
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