"Sound Advice"

[LDO]

Here is my dilema,
1985 C10. Dash isn't cut up nor is gage bezel. Stock am/fm radio works fine.

I want something that will let me listen to/control/charge my ipod while it is tucked away in the glove box and controlled via remote.

I also hate the thought of cutting up my perfectly good dash.

Does anyone have any experience with this item?

here

What would you recommend?

thank you in advance.

[James the III]

Do you remember the mr mike microphone, that you tuned into a channel and it put your voice over the car home radio? same idea.. how picky are you about the sound?
if it was 20-30 bucks I'd say go for it, but at almost 90 bucks..

retro sound and custom auto sound offer shaft radios..
even e bay has pyle brand shaft radio's , for 69 bucks but no remote control..
ebay has a gm am/fm cassette radio for 41 bucks.. and the cassette to mini plug adapters most likely will sound as good as that thing you linked..
There are guys that add mini plugs to gm radios.. so you can plug in an ipod/etc..
I'm picky about the sound.. so I'd go looking at swap meets and ebay and pawn shops/craigs list for an alpine/pioneer shaft radio am/fm casstte with aux input .
even junkyards, you don't care if the cassette deck works (bonus if it does) but the radio and aux input work.. and 99.9% of the time it's the deck that is the only part broken..
even an in-dash gm car radio shaft type that is an 8 track player can have the aux input added ,
I did one the mini plug for the ipod was in the 8 track tape and the ipod hid in the tape.. put on your play list and push the tape in to chang from radio to tape and whatever you had pluged into the mini plug plays through the stock gm radio..

[James the III]

To give you food for thought here is a thread of the mod to a g.m. radio.. yes it is a newer type but the same thing can be done to any shaft type radio with either a cassette deck or 8 track..


http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum9/HTML/000021.html

[James the III]

or to convert an am am/fm gm radio

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=236543

[BR3W CITY]

FYI, a really nice "oldschool" cheat for this existed well before the remote-hideaway stereo's that some of the resto places sell.

In home theatre and home studio, there is something called an IR Repeater. Its simply a little box which can use a place-anyhwere "eye" to transmit a wired signal to another "eye" which passes the signal to the radio, placed anywere. We've used them to fully hide radios (pretty much without access), and control them via the include remote (provided its infra red)