Need some help ID'ing a radio, Oppo.

"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce) 08/26/2019 at 21:52 • Filed to: None

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Note - I am posting two pictures. I don’t need to know what either of these radios are. I need to know what radio I am in possesion of and it is a combination of the two.

So my Fiero has a very weird AC D elco radio. It seems stock. But it has the weirdest combination of a graphic equalizer (the various up/down knobs that make the radio sound funky if you’ve never had one before) and a lack of cassette player. I literally can not find this delco radio and I am 99% convinced I am actually having a fever dream. I am trying to get my friend to snap a picture of it but in the meantime, was there a single GM car in the 80s that had a radio like this? It would look like a non-cassette radio like this:

But has the graphic equalizer and controls like this:

I have no idea how I have a radio like this and it is driving me mad. Best I can figure, the radio was swapped out at s ome point due to a jammed player and the guy nabbed another delco radio that just didn’t happen to have a tape player. So I bring this to Oppo - am I going crazy or is there another GM product that has a radio like this?

Auto 403 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/26/2019 at 22:02

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The 1985 Pontiac 6000 LE had that radio or something very close.

dogisbadob > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/26/2019 at 22:08

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Probably a lot of GM cars from the 80s had it. EQ or no EQ, tape or no tape, that’s 4 possible combos, and probably all 4 were offered.

Any Chevy or Pontiac radio from the 90s will also fit. You can get an EQ, a CD player, and even a speed sensor that increases the volume with speed.

WilliamsSW > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/26/2019 at 22:08

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That’s... weird. It doesn’t entirely make sense to me to add the eq without either a tape deck or CD player. Both of the radios pictured were pretty ubiquitous in 80s GM products.

Good luck!

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > dogisbadob 08/26/2019 at 22:11

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I’m not looking to replace it, I’m wondering where it came f ro m and if it’s a legit factory option or if it was a special order from a catalog like a dealer-install. I kinda like how this is the “basest of base models” as my friend put it. But maybe there were a few options checked we didn’t know about? Or it was ordered a certain way and then upgraded later in life? Just trying to flush out the truth behind it.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Auto 403 08/26/2019 at 22:12

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Yeah this one gets really close, but the buttons underneath the tape player tell me.....well, it’s a tape player. Delco cheaped out and used a same-size plastic piece for both the tape player and non-cassette radios. I am searching more through 6000s now.

Thomas Donohue > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/26/2019 at 22:23

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Pull out the radio and get the part number off the back ?

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Thomas Donohue 08/26/2019 at 22:29

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Maybe the next time I’m there. The car is on the other side of the state right now. 

Discerning > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/26/2019 at 23:28

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Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera S had something very similar, but even more basic

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/27/2019 at 00:13

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I had the radio with no cassette in an S10, but mine did not have the EQ.

someassemblyrequired > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/27/2019 at 00:16

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Hmm, this is from the anything goes era of GM, so I’m pretty sure it’s not a fever dream. There would be some clues if you posted it (the buttons/GM logo would focus the search). It would be an oddball - I’m thinking a high trim level truck or maybe a luxury-ish model (Cimmarron) where GM would be so cheap they deleted the cassette player. Maybe a specialty model with a remote casette deck?

The one with the equalizer and the casette was radio option UX1, if that helps .

OmerCarrothers333 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/27/2019 at 00:22

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If my memory serves me correctly, Kraco, Radio Shack/Realistic,  and AudioVox made a lot of double-DIN stereos about like the one in the second picture. I want to say their respective parent companies were probably the supplier for GM in the 80s. I think Rockford Fosgate eventually became the supplier for most of the US OEMs.

Boxer_4 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/27/2019 at 02:01

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You should be able to look at the RPO codes to see what head unit it came with from the factory. That’s certainly something I appreciate about GM.

The tag containing all of the codes should be somewhere around the brake master cylinder, so says the internet. 

FLmanisback > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/27/2019 at 02:35

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From what I can remember, these radios weren’t super reliable, nor were they difficult to remove. We would get in a lot of recovered thefts missing radios and used cars with wonky radios. Our radio repair company (we sent them out from the dealer) stocked some knockoffs that had a very similar appearance to a Delco radio. We would use them as a cheap substitution when the customer couldn’t spring for a GM or it was a cheap used car.

Pretty sure the Delco radios all had some sort of Delco identifier stamped on the face. If it doesn’t have that, you maybe have an aftermarket radio. I don’t really remember an equalizer on a non-cassette radio in the 80s.

In the 90s, some of the radios were still the same size, but had a separate unit for the cassette or CD. I remember it on the sunbird. Maybe a later radio was swapped in..

XJDano > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/27/2019 at 03:04

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http://www.amstereo.org/factory2.htm

I don’t know but this is interesting. 

dogisbadob > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/27/2019 at 16:58

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Cool

Yeah, in that case, pull the radio and get the part number and also check the RPO code sheet, once you see the car again

CaptDale - is secretly British > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/29/2019 at 11:37

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You mean like this one?

That was the high end radio option at the time. (So I remember anyway)