[Shop-talk] Old AM Car Radio

[Randall]

> Does anybody have a diagram of a 1950's Motorola TM8A AM car 
> radio.

I have a SAMS Photofact volume that covers it.

>  It has something that looks like a date code of 1955, 
> but it is solid state and I don't recall that car radios were 
> all transistor until a little later.

The SAMS is the Jan 71 issue, so I doubt the radio was from 1955.  Even my
62 Chevy still had some tubes in it (though the face plate said "Solid
State").

>  Mine has a label on it 
> but it is torn and I can't read it.  I can tell that it is 
> neg ground.  It has a warning on the label that says 
> something like "Use Only XX Ohm Speaker"  and it is torn at 
> the XX so I don't know what it says.

The diagram shows a front and rear speaker, with the front speaker specified
as a 4" by 10" 8 ohm.  No specs given for the rear speaker, though.

Randall