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ecclefechan
Ah ok, good luck with all that and hope it goes well.
I've never actually used the PM function on here before so I didn't know if you received an alert.
ingo
Yes, I did. But before Monday afternoon I will not have a chance to reply - because I'm busy with the K 70-meeting. My wife and me are the organisators this year.
ecclefechan
@ingo did you get the PM I sent?
antp
In Belgium car radios were taxed then. A whopping 1000 francs (25 euro) per year.
They still are in Walloon Region
ingo
I had no idea there were still cars made in the 2000s without a radio. I seem to remember the most basic models of Ladas sold in the UK in the mid 90s were the only new cars in the UK that didn't have them.
BTW do you have Skype or anything else I could contact you on?
No Skype, but by PM and email.
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In Belgium car radios were taxed then. A whopping 1000 francs (25 euro) per year.
In Italy, too. I still have the 1997 tax-sticker in the little cover at the frontscreen on my K 70.
And the 2011-MOT-sticker at the Vectra, too..
chicomarx
I seem to remember the most basic models of Ladas sold in the UK in the mid 90s were the only new cars in the UK that didn't have them.
My grandfather's Lada 1200 had a Sonolor radio, in fact I still have it. I don't know if that would have been standard though. In Belgium car radios were taxed then. A whopping 1000 francs (25 euro) per year.
Sandie
I seem to remember the most basic models of Ladas sold in the UK in the mid 90s were the only new cars in the UK that didn't have them.
The Mercedes C-Class didn't either at that time. I only know that as it was always given as an example of stingy spec!
ecclefechan
I had no idea there were still cars made in the 2000s without a radio. I seem to remember the most basic models of Ladas sold in the UK in the mid 90s were the only new cars in the UK that didn't have them.
BTW do you have Skype or anything else I could contact you on?
ingo
She knows how to present it well. "Retro Kassettenradio"... I have one of those. Saab put them in until 1998.
My 1999 Bundeswehr-Omega also had one. We changed it to the original Opel-CD-Radio. At eBay I even got a few Euros for the Kassettenradio.
Downsizing at German authority-cars is usual. As I told, last year in Gent/Belgium the taxi was also a former Bundeswehr-vehicle, a VW T5 - with manual window lifter, no AC and simple cardboard door-panels.
My wife's 2000 Bundeswehr-Astra G had no radio - and even no speakers in the doors (just empty frames), no antenna (in combination with the back window-washer on the roof) - and not even cables to antenna and speakers. It cost 250€ just for the montage, to place a radio in there.
This hyper-naked version is named "major customer-edition" at Opel, no kidding.
P.S. Why not a real stylish 70ies-radio, even without FM? Ask your local IMCDb-fellows for it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aqualite/16105720965/ecclefechan
I actually prefer to have cassette players than CD players as I can use an adaptor to connect them to my phone/mp3 player! In the two Ford Mondeos that I bought, I took out the CD players and put in Ford Cassette players. Did the job well!
In my current car I use a cassette adaptor also. It has a six CD changer which I haven't used in years:
