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Well I had a conversion done to my AM radio in my 60 Impala last year to make the drive out to Springfield a little easier. Well I got it back two days before left, installed it only to find out I can't get any FM stations above 101.1. The man who did it came highly recomended from a fellow VCCA member and friend. He told me to send it back over the winter, which I did so he could put a new board in it. He did it and i put it in and it only came on to FM once. I called back and he said send it back. The fellow who did the work is nice and I feel he is trying, but is plauqed by bad vendors so I will not say it is his fault yet. From other people I spoke with who had it done said they were not happy with the final product also regardless of who did it. So I would advise people to really think twice before you had over $300+ to someone, I DO NOT SUGGEST HAVING IT DONE!!!!!!
Just venting :( :( :( :( :(

John ; I am glad to hear that as I was going to have that done to my 63SS .Think I will pass on that.Do you remember that little converter that changed am to fm ?Ihad mine in the glove compartment of ny 58 Impala .No stereo but it worked clear across the United States and back and they were less than ten bucks.This was back in the sixtys

I have one, but I wanted to get away from it. I had a manual tunning radio, and I figured that when I put the push button in, I would do it right, I was wrong, keep your money!!!!
John :(

An alternative to the costly FM conversion is to put a modern radio behind an original radio face. I installed an electronic Mitsubishi (pardon me) radio in my 50 pickup by welding up a shell, a series of springs, rods and levers to line up a set of new buttons to the Mitsubishi buttons, installed an inverter, and WOW! Now I have amazing sound coming out of the original speaker, pre-programmed stations, seek, scan, and I have fooled judges at car shows! The original radio can be easily replaced if necessary. What more could you ask for?


SPEEDLINE

John,
I know several people who have had the A.M-F.M. conversion performed on their radios, none of them are happy and would not have it don again.

DandyD

Well, Dandy add me to the list The funny thing is out of all of the publications, I never read a word good or bad about it :( Well spread the word to all SAVE YOUR MONEY AND DON'T DO IT :eek:
John 348/340HP