So, a year and a half later,...
My dad found me a guy in KS selling the radio out of a '57 Chev truck for the right price (cheap), and I now have it in my hot little mitts! It's in decent shape, lots of dust but nothing major. The tubes look good once they are clean, and moreover no obvious signs of burnt circutry.

However,... I have the '56 GMC photo fact sheet and sumpin smells fishy here!

Now it appears that the bezels are slightly deeper on GMCs compared to Chev, but the kicker is while the internals are the same critter, the radio is flipped over. GMC radios the beveled front side goes up, in this Chev it goes down. I suppose flippin over the glass and crossing the string is an easy enough solution anyway.

There is a question in this mess.
I'm assuming that the two wires coming out the side are my power wires, white pos, black neg, and the green wire plugged into the bottom (or top?) is the speaker lead. Just wanna make sure before I give it a try.


1956 GMC 370 dump " 'Tater "
1970 VW Volksrod "the Black Bomber"
2007 Chevy Avalanche
2020 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk,
2005 Harley Davidson FLHTCUI

I dig all cars, old and new, whether they were hammered out of American iron, German steel, or Japanese tin cans. Being unable to appreciate them all is missing out on a world of great things.
But thats just MY opinion!
:P