hello guys,
i really want to pit a radio with a single cd player in it, in my 57.
i ahve not been able to find anyone who makes a cd raiod that will fit in the factory place.
Leonard,
This question might be better asked in the radio related section but here are my thoughts. I would never hack up a good dash so here is an alternative idea to that. There are reproduction radios available now that fit the original radio location perfectly and even look just like the original. They are fitted with AM/FM stereo radios with built in stereo amps and have RCA input jacks so you can run your CD, MP3 player, satellite radio, or what ever into it. You could hide a small portable CD player in the glove box although you might want to consider an MP3 player instead since they are much smaller and easier to place. For speakers, these repro radios have 4 channel amps so you could run 2 speakers in boxes behind the seat and sum the 2 front channels into the single stock speaker box that mounts above the windshield as I seem to remember for a '57. Summming the front channels could be done with 2 small speakers in one box or a dual voice coil single speaker if they make anything like that.
http://www.ecklerstrucks.com/product.asp?pf_id=138038&dept_id=1028&cm_mmc=Froogle-_-Audio+-+Stereos+-+AM%2FFM-_-138038-_-X
Best of luck,
-Ed
