Sapphire radio install

[Amigo2k]

Over the past couple of months I’ve been looking to find an original Sapphire I to install in my beetle. Currently it has an after market head unit with a tape cassette. Last week I found the 2 pieces I needed. The head unit and the chrome plate. One on the east coast and one on the west cost.

I really didn’t care if it worked, because I wanted to install a separate amp to plug an MP3 player into.

Here is the before I cleaned it up pics:
[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio1.JPG[/img]
[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio2.JPG[/img]

And after a little elbow grease:
[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio3.JPG[/img]
[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio4.JPG[/img]

I got lucky and found a small 2 channel amp on Amazon.com that fit perfectly on top of the glove box:

Before:
[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio6.JPG[/img]

After:
[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio7.JPG[/img]

and finally here is what the old unit looked like:

[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio5.JPG[/img]

and the new one:
[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio8.JPG[/img]

And here is my cruising set up with the MP3 player in place (it was an old one that had been sitting for a couple of years and it also has a built in FM tuner too):

[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rendres/web/1958/radio9.JPG[/img]

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[Garibaldi]

Looks great! The old one matches well with the interior and I like your mp3 player setup! Its very functional but also easy to hide it for the stock look at shows.

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