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I'm thinkin I want to go that way, keep it stock looking. They do put those there for a reason, so there isn't a radio on the ground! Although I'm going to junkyard to look for a tuffy today hopefully someone left theirs in when they junked the truck. But I'm putting 6.5" speakers in the doors, powered by an MTX amp directed by Pioneer HU Woo hoo!

 

sheesh! the remote wire is sure a tricky one.. newbs dont know that it is one of the most important wires. ive seen circuit city jobs where the guy has cut the the remote wire/lengthened it and brought it all on top of the dash.
i guess the kid thought the wire was for aiming the remote control at.

and another time i had my 2 L7 15"s and the 2 12"s in my 69 bug.
i had just hooked everything up. the works ,power capacitors,crossovers,equilizers a 4000w phoenix gold amp. i turned the car on and played about 6 seconds of a song when my capacitor reading went through the roof, then i hear a small pop like a knuckle cracking.
also smelled salty burning fuses and electronics. so i pulled every single component individually, and looked it over to see what fried.
everything looked PERFECT but i had no power at all..
well it turned out that my inline fuse near the battery had busted. but not in the middle where is visible, it melted away from the sides from the power surge and appeared fine.

installing that big of a system and then having to pull it again AND then put it back in.. big bag of no fun

 

heres the double DIN 7 inch flush touchscreen

my cb and public address system fits where the ashtray went

 

alternate deck setup with toggles for the hots.
super easy to do..
its not the prettiest glove box job but i keep it shut when it plays.

dont mind the paint comin off.
im in the process of doing a full black interior and the paint was a temporary.

 

Hidden Audio and Kenwood still make them. Sort of. the New ones use Hidden Digital tuners and CD Changer/ MP3 Player hookups. still stuck with only 60-80 Watts of power. These things are amazing have one in Dads 69 Chevelle and its worth the price tag (approx $200USD) if you like to keep the stock look with modern functions.

Can be found at Year One or JC Whitney (and a slew of other restoration places)

 

Get an amp, get a CD player from Futureshop or Radioshack. Get a Bazooka Tube sub, replace all factory speakers with Alpine's or JBL's and be done with it. i have no additional speakers (other than the sub) from stock and mine is pretty damn loud. But my exhaust tunes out the music to the people not in my truck. but inside it can get deafining.