Morris Minor Owners Club

Do any of you know what radio the series II was originally equiped with? In the haynes manual it says some things about it, but no specific data

I think all radios were optional extras and not fitted as standard on any models.

Any ideas then, as to what model is appropriate and where to fix it
I'v got a modern Pioneer radio/cd player, but I don't want modern c*** in my lizzie

A Radiomobile, Motorola, Phillips or Pye from that sort of time although a 60`s one is probably more suitable, a popular place is in the passenger glove box for security, although others can probably make more suggestions.

I think at that age, the radios had two boxes. The normal 'radio' sized one, and the power supply under the bonnet which was about three times the size of a normal radio. Smaller radios ony came later with partial transistorisation. I've seen them at shows, but don't remember what make.

these are usually pretty easy to dig up at auto jumbles...

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1960 era fitted under dash as radio instructions state relating to Morris Minors. Philips "transistorised" (2 I think) plus valves, it glows nicely in the dark![/img]

onne,

I assume you want to fit a period radio simply for the looks? I fitted an early PYE MED/LONG Wave Push Button Radio to my car. It looked good but I could only receive about 3 english speaking programs. Apart from BBC World and a Talk program there was nothing much else on MED Wave. LONG Wave had Radio 4. I Looked into geting it converted to FM (they use the MED Wave push buttons for FM) but that was looking at around £150 to do.

...and of course you need all the supressors too. For what it's worth I like the period PYE sets. I don't know if they were any good at the time, but they certainly seem fairly easy to fix and get working.