Stu Posted 18April, 2016 Report Share Posted 18April, 2016 does anybody know what radio went in an Aus delivered 78 targa? I have a booklet for a Pioneer with the original documents for a KP-8001 which visually looks period correct but I thought Porsche's of the time all had Blaupunkt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonR Posted 18April, 2016 Report Share Posted 18April, 2016 Unfortunately it seems to be a bit complicated, my understanding is that in Australia the radios were a dealer-level option, so there's no single 'right' one ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamr Posted 18April, 2016 Report Share Posted 18April, 2016 I'm not sure about the '70's models here in Australia, but I know the '80's models had the Eurovox brand fitted to them.We didn't get the Blaupunkt models here .... something to do with the compatibility with our airwaves or the frequency they tuned to weren't the same as ours.SimonR is correct ... the radio / cassettes here were dealer ordered and fitted, not factory fitted by Porsche .... they came out here with a blank space where the radio should have been.I would assume that there would be some members on here that still have the original fitted, so hopefully they will chime in and give you some idea of at least a period correct one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruby82sc Posted 18April, 2016 Report Share Posted 18April, 2016 I have the original Mitsubishi Electric unit with delivery papers fitted to my 12-81 Tasmanian delivered SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamr Posted 19April, 2016 Report Share Posted 19April, 2016 I have the original Mitsubishi Electric unit with delivery papers fitted to my 12-81 Tasmanian delivered SC.That seems an odd fitment to an '81 .... I thought Porsche had some sort of arangement with Eurovox at the time ....Maybe Tasmania was to far to ship them and they had to use whatever they could get .... Could you post a photo of it ..... I would love to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvs11 Posted 19April, 2016 Report Share Posted 19April, 2016 I have the original Mitsubishi Electric unit with delivery papers fitted to my 12-81 Tasmanian delivered SC. That seems an odd fitment to an '81 .... I thought Porsche had some sort of arangement with Eurovox at the time ....Maybe Tasmania was to far to ship them and they had to use whatever they could get .... Could you post a photo of it ..... I would love to see it.maybe the Mitsi unit was particlularly good for banjo music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruby82sc Posted 19April, 2016 Report Share Posted 19April, 2016 OUCH on behalf of all the Tasmanian viewers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smule Posted 19April, 2016 Report Share Posted 19April, 2016 Porsche branded Mitsi is correct for an SC....Eurovox didn't make an appearance till early 3.2s where released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzieman Posted 19April, 2016 Report Share Posted 19April, 2016 OUCH on behalf of all the Tasmanian viewers Just on my way back after 5 days on the coast and mid west Victoria ; there are more banjos here than at a Banjo Paterson appreciation society country convention. I should know as I attended one as a beer atom splitting compatriot of a young EinsteIn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted 19April, 2016 Author Report Share Posted 19April, 2016 Haha thanks guys - I don't do much banjo listening but great advice anyway. Has anybody installed one of those classic style GPS units Porsche are selling - I am sure they're really cheap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC78 Posted 19April, 2016 Report Share Posted 19April, 2016 I have a Blaupunkt 'Canberra' in my 79. Can't say for sure if it's original but the instruction manual looks pretty old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted 19April, 2016 Author Report Share Posted 19April, 2016 I read that the "Canberra' was the one elsewhere as well… $$350us on eBay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterwerk Posted 23April, 2016 Report Share Posted 23April, 2016 Haha thanks guys - I don't do much banjo listening but great advice anyway. Has anybody installed one of those classic style GPS units Porsche are selling - I am sure they're really cheap?I've installed one of the Porsche Classic radio here at Auto Coupe in Melbourne so far and two more here to fit next week. The owner of the first one is rapt with it. No cheap to buy and fairly time consuming to fit but the end result is the best money can buy. Nav' softwear is not available....yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buchanan Automotive Posted 24April, 2016 Report Share Posted 24April, 2016 Hi Stu , I worked at a large Porsche dealership in Sydney from 1977 - 1994 as a Porsche technician & in the period from 1977 I only ever saw / remember seeing Australian delivered / fitted Pioneer KP-8000 radio / cassette head units or similar in and around 1977 to 1979 , from memory I can remember some Porsche's delivered new with no radio cassette head unit at all ( new owners preference I would imagine) , but remember , that was a long time ago & things were very different to now Note 1 ) We have a customer that has a 1977 built , 1978 year model 911SC ( Aust Del new ) and it still has its Pioneer KP-8000 or similar , I think the FM band on it still works & this customer purchased this SC when it was 2 or 3 years old ( long time )Note 2 ) from what I was told in the 1970's it was near to impossible to get a Blaupunkt or similar repaired here in Australia( let alone quickly ), so it made a lot of sense to fit something that was sold & serviced here "quickly " , like the Pioneer ( very good in its day ) or the later Mitsubishi ( see below ) or the later still Eurovox ( see below ) & the FM band widths on radio cassette units like the Blaupunkt From around 1980 , Porsche Cars Australia did a deal with Mitsubishi Electric to supply the" then new to the first world market" Mitsubishi radio / cassette head unit & seperate amplifier & Mitsubishi went to the trouble to have printed on the cassette lid flap the word Porsche , this deal with Mitsubishi was quite important for customer service back up , because back in those days we had a lot of trouble getting radio/ cassette head units fixed/repaired , particularly the cassette itself , very common for this era head units( any brand) to eat tapes or not eject the tape cassette or foreign objects inserted into the head unit ( like a small coin by a child ) this was always a massive problem for car dealerships in that era , the Mitsubishi deal at that time was as I remember very good , we would only have to inform PCA of a issue with a radio /cassette unit problem from a Porsche ( under warranty), be it a 924 , 911 , 928 , 930 and PCA would send us another one ( new ) and we would fit this while the customer waited or just dropped the Porsche off to our dealership to get it changed over , in other words Mitsubishi Electric went to a lot of trouble to warrant things that were not strictly warranty ( very unusual for those days ) , or if the Porsche was out of Warranty we could send the head unit to them to get repaired and we have it back within two weeks ( this was very fast for that era )Then around 1984 or so , PCA did a similar deal with Eurovox Australia, same sort of deal , the name Porsche was printed on the cassette lid and good warranty back up , PCA kept buying from Eurovox until the early 1990's , naturally as new models of stereo head units became available that is what was installed each time to new Porsche's sold in Australia Now during that entire period , naturally there was always privately imported Porsche's imported into Australia by their owners and these had the Radio Cassette head units fitted in Europe & interestingly not always Blaupunkt or the like but other brands ( probably fitted in England ) RegardsBruce BuchananBuchanan Automotive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruby82sc Posted 24April, 2016 Report Share Posted 24April, 2016 Hi Bruce,Thankyou very much for taking the time to share your knowledge of the various radio cassette units used through the 70's and 80'sGreg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 26April, 2016 Report Share Posted 26April, 2016 Would be great if people with original radios could post a picture including model & year of car.a very useful resource for when trawling the swap meets or wreckers, in case one should show itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC78 Posted 26April, 2016 Report Share Posted 26April, 2016 I read that the "Canberra' was the one elsewhere as well… $$350us on eBay! Upon closer inspection it would seem my Blaupunkt Canberra was not an original feature of my 79sc, although I believe it was standard in the 964 at some point. Back in them days the radio was an optional extra, and according to my build sheet the car never got a radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smule Posted 27April, 2016 Report Share Posted 27April, 2016 Would be great if people with original radios could post a picture including model & year of car.a very useful resource for when trawling the swap meets or wreckers, in case one should show itself.will try get some pics up.. But some interesting trivia .. Aussie delivered cars around 84 to 86 shared the same Eurovox unit and amplifier found in the Holden VK Brock.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted 27April, 2016 Author Report Share Posted 27April, 2016 Thanks guys, I'm amazed you all know so much about this stuff. Thanks to all!think I will try one of those retro styled Bluetooth ones from Blaupunkt - anybody got one? Any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew911 Posted 27April, 2016 Report Share Posted 27April, 2016 Thanks guys, I'm amazed you all know so much about this stuff. Thanks to all!think I will try one of those retro styled Bluetooth ones from Blaupunkt - anybody got one? Any good?I have a Blaupunkt San Francisco 320, it looks great as it is black and it does not look like a set of disco lights when its on its not very retro, but it does not look out of place in an SC or a 3.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamWolf Posted 29April, 2016 Report Share Posted 29April, 2016 I bought one of these for my '82 as it looks plain, takes an SD card and fills the hole.http://www.jaycar.com.au/Sight-%26-Sound-Car/In-Car-Entertainment/CD-DVD-Players/In-Dash-MP3-Player-with-Radio/p/QM3781 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewD Posted 9June, 2016 Report Share Posted 9June, 2016 Unfortunately it seems to be a bit complicated, my understanding is that in Australia the radios were a dealer-level option, so there's no single 'right' one ... My understanding is that local content tax laws meant that many euro cars were delivered here without radios and aerials (and other components) to save on duty as it was calculated on %local content.The dealers would go to local car audio specialists (if you can call them that) to fit high-end radios, alarms and battery draining immobilizers, at least until the early '80s when there seems to have been a deal with Australian company Eurovox to supply Porsche branded stereos similar to those in the high end Holdens and HDTs. Up until the Eurovox radios of the early '80s a car could have a Philips, Pioneer or Mitsubishi Electric fitted. I urge anyone who has an unmolested car to photograph their radio and post it with the model build date and delivery dealer. My '80 model 928 was delivered into Brisbane and i'm keen to know what Albion Car Centre was having fitted in the day. Mine now sports a mid '90s Kenwood headunit and 6-stack unit that has eaten and jammed my Best of Duran Duran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarreraG50 Posted 9June, 2016 Report Share Posted 9June, 2016 My John Newell (Sydney) delivered 87 Carrera came with a Eurovox MCC 8280P still have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve88 Posted 16June, 2016 Report Share Posted 16June, 2016 I ended up getting two types for my SC Found an original from these guys who hard wire an iPod cable into the rear and pre-amps for an amplifier Was not able to source what I originally wanted Then I got a new style Pioneer for the Bluetooth side with no buttons on the front . Looks clean and has adjustable brightness and colours . I select dull poorly lit crapy 80`s amber , does the trick and looks period enough . Will put the original back in when I move the SC along at some point . Did very much like these for how simple they arehttp://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-AM-FM-Car-Stereo-Radio-w-MP3-SD-USB-inputs-fits-JEEP-CJ-Wagoneer-/361595316522?hash=item5430c2a92a:m:myOvEl34K7DuAcE7TW7LkBQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted 23June, 2016 Author Report Share Posted 23June, 2016 Hi all to wrap this up, I made a purchase of the Retrosound2 - vet happy!My review is in another thread you can see it here if you are interested:http://porscheforum.com.au/topic/9033-retro-bluetooth-radio-and-phone-kit/?do=findComment&comment=168590 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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