Bendix Radio

[John Boggis]

The Bendix radio http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370340267828&viewitem=&sspagename=S has a couple of days left and has had one bid.
Just in case anybody is thinking of bidding on this set a few things the seller has not made completely clear...this is dealer option radio for an Alpine not a Rootes otional extra model ...also in the time frame of this radio it is only correct for series V cars.

 

[RootesRooter]

For the stock purists, I'm not even sure if it's the correct radio for Series V cars. All of the Sunbeam Transistor radios I've encountered on Series V's had chrome knobs and buttons, while all the radios I've seen with black plastic knobs and buttons (like the one on eBay) were found on Arrow Range Alpine fastbacks and Arrow Sedans.

Not that black knobs makes it a bad radio - I put one in my Series V and it looks and works great.

But for that price, even NOS, I'd like to have the rare, Series V speaker box with it.

 

[lord_rootes]

For the stock purists, I'm not even sure if it's the correct radio for Series V cars. All of the Sunbeam Transistor radios I've encountered on Series V's had chrome knobs and buttons, while all the radios I've seen with black plastic knobs and buttons (like the one on eBay) were found on Arrow Range Alpine fastbacks and Arrow Sedans.

Not that black knobs makes it a bad radio - I put one in my Series V and it looks and works great.

But for that price, even NOS, I'd like to have the rare, Series V speaker box with it.

I've got one exactly like that. It came with all the spare parts with my Series II Alpine. It might well have been Arrow range as there were some other Arrow range parts in there as well.

Alan