If the Motorola was made for the American market, how did it handle the
reverse polarity ( + earth )? Unless you could change the polarity of the
radio or car, the whole system, including antenna would have to be
electrically isolated from the Healey. I learned this the hard way.
Mad Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Olin Brimberry
To: HealeyRick
Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Austin Healey Radio?
I actually have an original Motorola that came from a BJ8 and it is
identical in knobs and in font to the numbers, but it did not have
"AUSTIN HEALEY" on it. I would bet that was an original US band
Motorola radio that someone put the AH sticker on it. Kind of like
the windshield sunblocks with the car model typed across it. There
was probably an outfit making these for radio face plates (sold at JC
WHitney) when graphics were being overdone in the 80s.
Olin
On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:47 PM, HealeyRick wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I think it's interesting that if I was the original owner of this
> car, I would
> call the radio a "factory" one. In reality, who knows? Did
> Motorola make a
> special run for Healeys? Did the distributor or dealer commission
> some
> special faceplates? All part of the fun of trying to determine what
> was
> "original".
>
> Rick
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