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Hi Folks,

While driving in my daily drivers. Its "Light FM": It kind of relaxes me and brings me back in time if some nice 50s or 60s music comes on. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

I`ve owned a ton of LBCs and for the most part, ea. had a radio of somesort but I really don`t recall ever turning one on except to see if it works. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif

Especially driving an E-Type (What music that engine makes), or the TR3 / 4A I`ve had: I would prefer to hear the engine between shifts, watching the tach etc. Nothing else mattered. With the top down (Always) You can hardly hear anything else, anyway! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/whistle.gif

Regards, Russ /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif
 
All my vehicles have tunes & have been upgraded with XM satellite radio. In fact one of my vehicles has a XM kit that I can easily take with me when I travel on business that can be hooked up to any rental vehicle in a couple of minutes.

Several reasons I can think of why folks “need” to listen – the biggie has to be that most folks just don’t appreciate driving and probably never will because they drive boring vehicles. Moreover I don’t care how good your car’s exhaust sounds – there’s nothing remotely fun about city driving - let alone sitting in bumper to bumper traffic.

But Basil has it right when it points out that besides our favorite music, many of us enjoy news & talk radio shows and frequent traffic reports. In fact my XM satellite radio has dedicated traffic & weather stations with up to the minute traffic reports for just about every major city in the US so I’m pretty good in that department.

In my case my job has me driving a lot of miles each week (5-6 hundred/wk) and to get to some of the more remote locations means hours of driving without a break. So for me the radio (XM in my case) is a god send.
 
I do lots of town driving-stop and go stuff. I listen to the radio of my iPod (through the speakers, not on headphones!) a lot. If I'm going more than half an hour or so I'll usually hook up the iPod, partially because it'll pick up a pretty good charge in that time. If I've got to hook it up to charge it, I may as well have a listen.

This changes somewhat in the summertime. The stock Miata stereo isn't especially powerful, and is all but inaudible much above sixty. If I'm spending a lot of time at those speeds I just turn it off (and usually have to wear earplugs as well). I frequently go radioless in winter, when the power antenna freezes down. I can't say I'm miserable without it, but I'm glad when it's back.

The MGB has no working radio (PO installed cheapie Audiovox tape player from Kmart, but no speakers!). Dad has talked about putting in a cheap CD player (he's another one who likes driving with the radio on), but we both have come to the conclusion that the B is another car that's so noisy that a radio would be useless out of stop and go traffic.

Bear in mind I'm the sort of person who hates sitting in silent rooms-I usually have my iPod running throug the stereo in my office. I just like the background noise. I read in front of the television too, and can digest an issue of Motor Sport at the same time as an episode of Dexter.
 
Interesting how we all have different listening habits.
My radio or CD occasionally gets turned on in heavy
stop-start Tokyo traffic, never otherwise.
Then again, I'm allergic to most 'background' music,
be it at home or in the car. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif
 
Bret said:
But Basil has it right when <span style='font-size: 14pt'>it</span> points out that besides our favorite music, many of us enjoy news & talk radio shows and frequent traffic reports.
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Oh, so I'm an "it" now am I? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cowboy.gif
 
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Geez, Boss, I always knew ya had, erm... uhhh...

<span style='font-size: 8pt'>nevermind</span>
 
OK, Doc., this is internet tag and now your "IT"!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
I am in the process of searching for a radio/cd to put in my MGA. Will the "modern" style radios fit in the hole in the dash? Are any alterations necessary?

Thanks,

Ray
 
There are radios sold on the "bay" that have movable dial deals. Haven't seen 1 personally just seen the sale
 
I enjoy radio when driving, except for those times
that my daughter takes over on the audio controls.
Man, that thump/boom rap stuff is enough to have
anyone give up music. I can't take it. OFF IT GOES
when the rap comes on.

Enjoy both on and off, whatever is good at the moment;
but, I do prefer the option. And, by the way, blaring
loud Old Time rock and roll, at times, is just fine
by me. Fun. I'm a little older, yeah, but I'm not
dead.
 
At the wifes request, I put a radio in the "B". After finding one that didn't look like it came out of a space ship and costing almost 400 bucks, she found out that you can't hear it anyway when going down the road unless you crank it up to an annoying level. So I now have $400 plug in the console. The cover plate would have been a lot cheaper. (And looked a lot better)!
 
Only one out of 4 vehicles has one...

It only gets 2 stations but the CD player works...

Blasting Megadeath keeps me from bump-drafting cotton heads /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
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