Anyway to add XM Radio to a vintage AM car radio?

Hi all,
There was a '55 corvette parked next to me at a cruise night I went to last
year - he had the radio on, and the classic tunes were playing one after the
other, no commercial breaks, etc. I asked him about it, and he said that he
sent the radio (somewhere?) and they gutted out the original insides,
replacing it with an AM/FM unit with an aux plug - he had an MP3 player
loaded with 100's of songs stored up under the dash. The radio had the
stock face, when you turned it on, it was on AM. Turn off, then on again,
and it's on FM (you'd probably have to guess the station since the numbers
weren't on the radio face). Off and on again and it's on Aux plug mode.
Pretty slick system, although I'd only consider doing that on a radio that
was toast inside.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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"Rabbit" wrote in message

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> "nuttyguy" wrote in message
>
>>A friend of mine has a delima. His vintage '65 Buick has an AM radio but
>> he'd like to add satelite to the car for obvious reasons. He's had a
>> fancy
>> FM radio in the car before but didn't like the way it looked. And he
>> won't
>> even consider hacking under the dash (and through the venting system) in
>> order to install a hidden system.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a third party switch or a hotwire hack that will
>> allow
>> him to have satelite radio in the car?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> The portable models don't actually hack into the radio itself. To use
> them, you need a plug-in power source (like the kind you use to power cell
> phone chargers). You stick the antennae on the roof or on the dash, and
> then you tune the satellite and the car radio to the same frequency and
> the satellite radio plays through the stereo.
>
> But I suspect that it won't work on AM, and he won't have a power outlet
> in the Buick.
>
> I guess the moral of the story is that if you want it to sound modern, it
> has to be modern; you don't get the 21st-century radio if you're not
> willing to poke a couple of hidden holes in your 20th-century dash.
>
> Rabbit
>
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"Steve Sears" wrote in message

> Hi all,
> There was a '55 corvette parked next to me at a cruise night I went to
> last year - he had the radio on, and the classic tunes were playing one
> after the other, no commercial breaks, etc. I asked him about it, and he
> said that he sent the radio (somewhere?) and they gutted out the original
> insides, replacing it with an AM/FM unit with an aux plug -

There's a guy at Hershey every year who does that service. If it's a common
radio, he usually has a few hooked up and ready to go, although of course
it's more expensive than if you give him yours. I don't know his name,
though.

Rabbit
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There's a company called hidden radio that will convert old radios to
modern. To do it on the cheap though your friend could install an FM
converter so that his AM radio will also receive FM. The newer XM
radios have a built-in FM transmitter so with the two units he'd be
able to recieve XM...in mono of course.
On Mon, 08 May 2006 18:34:28 GMT, nuttyguy
wrote:

>A friend of mine has a delima. His vintage '65 Buick has an AM radio but
>he'd like to add satelite to the car for obvious reasons. He's had a fancy
>FM radio in the car before but didn't like the way it looked. And he won't
>even consider hacking under the dash (and through the venting system) in
>order to install a hidden system.
>
>Does anyone know of a third party switch or a hotwire hack that will allow
>him to have satelite radio in the car?
>
>Thanks.
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