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Subject:Re: Where should the radio fit in an older A/T with A/C.
From:Nick Feickert
Date:Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:55:41 -0500

I have the Behr A/C system in my 85 westy. After years of trying to look
straight down to see my radio display, I've had enough!! Here's my research,
none or which is a magic fix: I can only see one other place to put the stereo
and thats to mount it to the roof between the sun visors. Or course, this adds
quite a challenge to how to secure it there. WS Winkler in Germany does sell a
overhead console with a spot for a DIN stereo, but after several emails, they
seem uninterested in doing business in the US.(Any help on that would be
appreciated!!) That is the only overhead console I've found and I don't know
where they are manufactured. Another possible solution is the center console
box that you find at Go Westy. That console has a drawer that pulls out that
might be suitable for a DIN spot, but the builder of that said he couldn't
quite get it to fit and would continue to find a solution. I haven't heard if
he was still working on a solution. I'm in the middle of my restoration and
might have to build my own custom housing for the roof, either out of wood or
fiberglass. Not an easy project!! As a last resort, I have looked for a stereo
system that is nothing more than a faceplate to control a hidden unit
somewhere else. I found only one and it was ugly and featureless. The battle
continues!!!