Thread: Easiest, Best, Cheapest Way to Add Music to Car?

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This actually would look cool, I'd have to get an iPod though.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...ct_id=10737379

Angela

go get a really good boom box and mount in the back seat area. did a coupe that way and it was killer. plus you could take it out and use it elswhere.

damn my fingers type faster than my brain reads. you got it covered . i had one of those silly big chrome things. way cool.

I made a 12v powered ( accessory plug powered ) boom box.. simple cheap car radio ( $30 unit, cassette/analog tuners ) 2 cheap speakers.. used some old K mart speaker grilles ( mounted externally and attached with wood screws )... did accidently wired it backwards and burnt the stereo up.. I had both pos and neg wired with black wire. and had no tracers

Originally Posted by yellowhenryj

This actually would look cool, I'd have to get an iPod though.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...ct_id=10737379

Angela

Angela,
I'd be willing to bet that if you go to a local cruise or show and let it be known that you need an accessory plug (cigar lighter in the old days..) wired in for a boom box, but that you don't know how to do it to look professional and don't want to trash the car or smoke the wiring you will find a local Des Moines area rodder that will help you out. This is a five minute job for the basic wiring, and an hour or two to make it professional, "hidden" but accessible. Heck, Good Guys Heartland Nationals is in two weeks and you will have 3-4,000 rods & customs hitting town!!

Advanced Auto has a cigar lighter unit for less than $5 but you need to find a spot on your fuse panel that can handle 20-30 amps. Since I don't have an electric fuel pump (stock mechanical SBC) I am using the wire in my kit that would have been for an electric fuel pump but on your HJ you probably have the original wiring loom so you probably need someone who knows the HJ loom to install just one wire to the cigar lighter which will be grounded to the metal dash. The neat thing about a cigar lighter is that you can use it for several accessories, sweeper, small air pump, digital locater, cell phone charger, a separate CD/radio or light an occasional cigar! The Henry J looks great!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder