Oh Lordy, I now own a Fordy (a Lincoln actually)..

[njsteve]

Here's those later aluminum turbine rims on a 1971 Lincoln Mark III. 15x6.5 inch, 4.5 by 5 in bolt pattern. They came on a lot of Ford and Mercury products in the 4.5" bolt pattern during the 1980's. The Lincolns actually used a 5 inch pattern later in the 1970s but switched back to a 4.5 in the 1980's. So I need a Ford set with some Lincoln center caps.

[njsteve]

I installed the Redi-Rad I got for the car in December. Pretty interesting contraption. It allows you to play your music on the AM radio via your cellphone. It adds an input lead that goes in the headphone jack of your phone, Ipod, DVD player, Beta-Max, or whatever.

Pretty simple installation if you can reach the antennae lead on the back of your radio along with a ground lead and a power lead to the fuse box. The antenna lead just plugs in series with the factory antenna and you set the radio to 1000 on the AM dial.

In other words it took several days of dash disassembly on this car to get to the back of the radio which is in the top section of the dash, above all the automatic A/C climate control duct work. I waited a few days for my cuts and scrapes on my hands to heal before reinstalling all the parts.

Here's the website: https://redirad.com/

Now I can play some appropriate theme music while cruisin' the scene with my Detroit lean.

[John Brown]

I recall the dash pad on my fathers Lincoln was easily removed so he had access to the radio from the top. Maybe different in different years though.

[njsteve]

All access is from the underside on this car. And of course Ford decided to have the lead also plug in from the top of the radio, not the bottom. Jeez!

[scuncio]

How would you rate the Redirad sound quality? I've been contemplating buying one too.

[njsteve]

It actually is better sound quality than any AM radio channel. It is essentially playing the car speakers as a set of earphones off your cell phone. You could even set up one of the satellite radio portable units and play it the same way, out of it's earphone jack and into the redirad cable. I have one of those SiriusXM units that I move from car to car. I'd just need to figure out a spot for it's little magnetic antenna since this car has a thickly padded vinyl top that won't allow it to go there..

Now I have to check and see why my rear door speakers aren't functioning. The Continental has four speakers, one in each door (none in the dash or rear deck). The two fronts sound fine. I was going to pull the door panels and regrease all the window tracks anyway, so I guess this pushes up the schedule of the next fun project.

[scuncio]

Thanks for the feedback and good luck with your speaker project....