Any chance we could see these in 2024-2025 it be nice to see the 71 road runner and 68-69 impala

[Carmak]

On 12/30/2023 at 4:44 PM, Motor City said:

GM offered them on the full-size models and the Riviera starting with the 1963 model year.  I'm not sure if it was available on the Corvette that year.  Then stereo was optional on the 1965 big Chevy, Chevelle and Corvette.  Cadillac came out with stereo for 1966, followed by the other three divisions in 1967.  FoMoCo had AM-FM by 1965, but I'm not sure when it was first available.  I'm not sure about Chrysler or Rambler/AMC vehicles.   

My '68 Eldorado has the optional AM-FM stereo radio but doesn't have the under-dash 8-track player which was a dealer-installed option starting in May of 1968.  The choices then were AM, AM-FM and AM-FM stereo.  That seems so absurd now, but FM wasn't really a popular option until the early 1970s.  Dad only ordered an AM-FM on his '73 Caprice since the stereo in my grandmother's '71 Eldorado sounded awful.  That Eldorado had an integrated 8-track player.  You pushed the tape through the radio dial to activate the tape.  I still have the radio from it, but the car ended up in a demolition derby at the Washtenaw County fairgrounds outside of Ann Arbor.

In the early 90's I had a very early build 63 Thunderbird Landau bard find with a factory AM/FM radio and a rear speaker (not stereo, just front rear fade). I bought the car FOR the AM/FM radio, and I put it in my Rangoon red 63 Hard Hop. A good friend still has the red Hard Top with AM/FM radio still in it and still working.

I currently have a 66 Chrysler Newport Custom 4drHT with an AM/FM radio. I am fairly sure 66 was not the first year for AM/FM in a Chrysler. The attached pic of the radio is not great, but you can see the line dividing FM (top) and AM (bottom).