![]() |
![]() |
#1 |
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: harvard, il. USA
Posts: 389
|
OE radios
I have a factory installed AM radio. On another site I frequent, and mostly trust what one participant stated, this radio can be programmed to a different station. He said this
.... Simple set the station you want pull the button out and then push it in and the radio is programed to go to that station when you push the button .... True or false? I've never heard of such a thing. Curious...Don. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 | |
Senior Member
![]() Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Herculaneum MO (20 minutes south of St. Louis
Posts: 619
|
Re: OE radios
Quote:
__________________
67 C10 283 T5 swapped longbed fleetside = wife's daily driver 67 C20 292 (originally a 250)4speed longbed fleetside w/original wooden bed=my project truck 67 C10 283+.060 (so a 292 as well)T5 swapped longbed fleetside=my DD 72 C1500 Sierra Grande 350 TH350 longbed fleetside=wife's fair weather truck Can you tell we are fans of longbed fleetsides & 67s Chris |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 | |
68 C10 Longbed
![]() Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Naples, Florida
Posts: 520
|
Re: OE radios
Quote:
Find the station you want, pull out the button , then push all the way back in like to change the channel and that button will always go back to that channel. Wow I feel really old that I know this LOL! |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
Senior Member
![]() Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Godley, TX
Posts: 17,964
|
Re: OE radios
Yep, it’s the original way to set station “memory” buttons.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5 |
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: 3,018 feet above the SoCal/Mojave Desert region.
Posts: 362
|
Re: OE radios
If I remember, the right knob was to select your station so the dial would move left or right. Once you find your desired station, any of the push buttons under the screen, pull one out than push it all the way in. That station is now selected to the button. I'm a millennial but use to play with the original radio in my family's '69 GMC. I would sit there and push the buttons and watch the dial fly around on the display. I wish I had an original on my '72.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#6 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2022
Location: Medina, Ohio
Posts: 218
|
Re: OE radios
Yes....GM push button... thats the advantage of pushbutyon over non. Today hold on preset station button and the presets are set in modern vehicle.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#7 |
Registered User
![]() Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Maquoketa, Ia/ Orr, Mn
Posts: 3,014
|
Re: OE radios
Yup- thats how they work. Outlined in the owners manual too
__________________
'51 South Bend Model "9A" '56 Chevy 3600 NAPCO '74 Chevy Cheyenne Super K20-restored on 37's '72 GMC Sierra Custom K2500- in progress '08 GMC Envoy Denali '12 GMC Sierra 2500HD Denali '17 GMC Yukon XL VCCA member #58596 http://www.nohrco.com |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#8 |
Senior Member
![]() ![]() Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: CA
Posts: 5,521
|
Re: OE radios
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#9 |
Senior Member
![]() Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Orem, Utah
Posts: 7,915
|
Re: OE radios
It's another one of those things that were once common to us "older" folk that seem baffling today... like a rotary phone.
__________________
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#10 |
Senior Member
![]() Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: TN.
Posts: 8,136
|
Re: OE radios
For Sure
True
__________________
________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 84 Chevy K-20 63 Impala (my high school car) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...Crew Cab Build |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#11 |
Senior Member
![]() Join Date: Jun 2022
Location: San Ramon,CA
Posts: 505
|
Re: OE radios
Unlike modern tuners, it'll prolly require "fine tuning" with the outer knob much of the time, but the button will get you close.
Now it's time for a Geritol and my nap
__________________
1970 C10 Custom longbed 350/350 |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#12 |
Post Whore
![]() Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Portland Oregon
Posts: 11,156
|
Re: OE radios
Not just GM radios most American vehicle radios have that function. I guess that it started in the 50's about the time the Wonderbar radios appeared.
__________________
Thanks to Bob and Jeanie and everyone else at Superior Performance for all their great help. ![]() RIP Bob Parks. 1967 Burban (the WMB),1988 S10 Blazer (the Stink10 II),1969 GTO (the Goat), 1970 Javelin, 1952 F2 Ford OHC six 4X4, 29 Model A, 72 Firebird (the DBP Bird). 85 Alfa Romeo If it breaks I didn't want it in the first place The WMB repair thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=698377 |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#13 | |
Moderator
![]() Join Date: May 2007
Location: Southern Cal
Posts: 20,005
|
Re: OE radios
Quote:
Every vehicle we owned when I was growing up was this way.
__________________
1972 C/10 Cheyenne Super SWB. Restored, loaded, slammed. 1968 C/10 50th Anniversary LWB. Unrestored, stock, daily driver/work truck. RIP ElJay RIP 67ChevyRedneck RIP Grumpy Old Man |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#14 |
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 264
|
Re: OE radios
Just checked and my '69 C 10 radio does this . Thanks !
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#15 |
Post Whore
![]() Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Portland Oregon
Posts: 11,156
|
Re: OE radios
When you lived in the small town with one AM radio station there wasn't much changing of the radio stations. Being a smart-Alec junior high school kid I didn't think my dad listened to the radio in his K20 so one day I reset the buttons to the far off Spokane stations you could only get occasionally. Stations that played Rock and Roll!
I quickly found out I was wrong in my assumption when I was told in no uncertain terms to "Keep my grubby paws off the radio!". ![]()
__________________
Thanks to Bob and Jeanie and everyone else at Superior Performance for all their great help. ![]() RIP Bob Parks. 1967 Burban (the WMB),1988 S10 Blazer (the Stink10 II),1969 GTO (the Goat), 1970 Javelin, 1952 F2 Ford OHC six 4X4, 29 Model A, 72 Firebird (the DBP Bird). 85 Alfa Romeo If it breaks I didn't want it in the first place The WMB repair thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=698377 |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#16 |
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: harvard, il. USA
Posts: 389
|
Re: OE radios
I guess an old dog can learn new tricks.
I've had 60's and 70's vehicles for a long time. I never knew. Never read the owners manual either(big grin). Thanks all...much appreciated...Don. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Bookmarks |
|
|