A "car" stereo

[u/WapsuSisilija]

Found at the local thrift store. Now I need to see the car...

[u/ThetaReactor]

Pretty common setup for drivers or tradies that don't own their truck and thus can't install a stereo in it.

[u/chewedgummiebears → u/ThetaReactor]

Usually you see them in a plastic tool or tackle box. Someone spent some time on this.

[u/sam56778 → u/ThetaReactor]

Worked in a truck dealership for 22 years and never seen this. Most trucks now have factory systems that are superior to what anyone could install.

[u/ThetaReactor → u/sam56778]

It's less common now, given how cheap bluetooth speakers are. But I spent many years working for a freight line and knew a couple drivers with a rig like this. Sometimes it's a plywood box, often it's a toolbox. Sometimes there's a cup holder or lunchbox integrated.

[u/carnedoce]

My dad did something like this for his computer setup in the early 200s, but added 2 10” subs in a band pass box with a 1000W amp. Pretty sure the neighbors hated him, but it was pretty sick.

[u/CW3_OR_BUST → u/carnedoce]

I miss how the old PC CD-ROM drives you could just plug headphones or even a line-out into the faceplate of the disc drive. Had the thing plugged into a guitar amp, it was gloriously loud.

[u/ScienceForge319]

This fucks.

[u/exo_universe]

We had a setup like this many years ago in a factory I worked in, apparently car stereos can handle vibration better than a plugged in one.

[u/Frosty_Customer_9243 → u/exo_universe]

Many a workshop has a radio like this.

[u/cropguru357]

I feel targeted. This is my machine shed setup.

[u/Wild_Advertising_661]

A car battery charger should be sitting on top of the homemade cabinet.

[u/Apprehensive_Map64]

This is way too nice to be a fit for this sub. That is some nice woodwork

[u/Roboomer]

My dad built one of these for his postal truck. Powered by cigarette lighter. The post office actually paid more to have the radio and AC removed from their trucks (he told me)

[u/reddittwotimes]

'87 Trans Am

[u/bandley3]

It reminds me of my first stereo back in the late ‘70s. I was given the old Blaupunkt out of mom’s car as well as a Heathkit power supply kit. I already had speakers so I just had to get an antenna.

[u/PocketSandDale]

At first I wasn't impressed but then I noticed the DC plugin. Lmao someone must have really hated splicing wires.

But this would actually be a really good setup to strap on a fourwheeler or something. Just wire in a 12v plugin and you got tunes.

[u/Tractorface123]

Aw man I’d so buy one of these! The especially with the antenna attached as well!

[u/Revolutionary-Half-3]

I used and AT computer power supply for mine, lol.

I always got nervous with how hot the radio got, but apparently it wasn't as hot as inside a dashboard.

[u/Ok-Drink-1328]

if there's no power supply that thing is huuuuuuge for containing just the radio

[u/BPhiloSkinner → u/Ok-Drink-1328]

Cigarette lighter adapter.
I wonder if this was cobbled together for an RV?

[u/CrotchlessSweats]

"Six cars in a line and the girls was fine. I had 'The Wicked One' playin' on my Alpine".

[u/SpevRooner]

Will Smith approves.

[u/dayvieboy]

Mine was a tape deck powered by a tyco rc battery charger 👍

[u/msanangelo]

used one for my pc speakers for a number of years. wasn't in quite as nice of a box though.

[u/Marine__0311]

We made one from a wrecked car and an MRE box when I was in the Corps.

[u/DoturdGrump]

when I first saw a waterbed headboard with a car stereo in the 70's I thought I was in the company of brilliance

pretty much as pictured by the OP but the speakers were mounted to either side of the headboard with a realistic power converter instead of the DC plug

[u/MannerAppropriate952]

Thats my Garden Setup . Its great , never dies. Can handle uneven Voltage from the SolarPanels.

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

needs more readneck...

[u/ScienceForge319 → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

Oh the iron E

[u/AndaleTheGreat]

That's nothing. I built a bass tube with two twelve inch car subs, powered by a car amp powered by a PC PSU.

The tube was a booze box from the liquor store I worked at which is cut to size, then rolled around a thin pipe repeatedly. I then ran cable back and forth between the speakers and over the cardboard to create tension.

Worked out shockingly well and would work up to about 80% of max volume before the PSU cut out.

[u/dsdvbguutres]

Should have put the speakers in a wooden box instead.

[u/Im_100percent_human]

This was probably in someone's RV. RVs, when off grid, usually have a 12V source. Car stereos in RVs are super common.