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Ahhhhhhhh

 

Damn... those are bitchin.

I've toyed with the idea of converting to the hardtop-style gas cap / filler assembly on the rebuild... since I don't need the space for the convertible top. But I haven't looked at how hard it would be to execute. Might look at that today.

 

... that I'm insane.

Luckily, the house on the garage side is vacant right now... and the neighbor directly across the street doesn't care. But eventually it may become an issue, with the house next door on the market. Certainly I'm violating a handful of HOA covenants. :devil:

 

Yep, not hard. I never use the radio in the car anymore, anyway. Just aux input. If I can figure out how to rework volume controls with my steering wheel paddles direct to an amp... Done.

Some folks move the toggle panel up to the spot where the radio head unit was...

 

In a convertible?

 

Yeah... acoustics are much harder in an open vehicle, than in a quiet room with solid walls. So you really need multiple speakers placed around you, like the OEM setup. And that means wires to power all of them, at a minimum. At which point you might was well use those same wires to get signal to them. Then you have what we have now.

Certainly my wife has a rechargeable bluetooth hands free single speaker in her car, and it's "OK" for mono audio for GPS directions, phone calls, etc. But is not the Hi-Fi experience I'm looking for, for my music.

It's possible I'll just relocate my head unit to the passenger-side euro parcel shelf. All this stuff will be one of the last things I do, in a couple of months. Low priority, really.

 

I looked at that... but there's not nearly enough depth for the head unit, in the position where the toggle panel lives. There's heat/AC crap in the way.

The harness definitely has enough slack to reposition it there, or even into the space where the glovebox lives.