Brock Directors wired for sound

Your latest AMC mag on the Brock Directors is great reading. Either I missed it or it didn’t get mentioned that some of the Directors were installed with Yamaha Car Stereos, radio cassette, with single CD player mounted in the lower pocket (front of console), Yamaha power amp mounted under the back shelf, on a piece of what’s now known as MDF (painted matte black). The speakers where all Yamaha 6-inch 2-ways in the front doors mounted half way in pockets. On the rear shelf they had 6x9 3-ways. The speaker grilles were painted same colour as the interior trim (painted by HDT); the grommets in the front doors for the speaker wires were a white push in and expand type. I actually still have few of them.

At the time where I worked at Wilson & Hall Car Sound, in Claredon St South

Melbourne (now closed). There were only two of us and we did all the stereo work on the new Directors. I also was repairing car radios for HDT as well.

The other option of stereos in a very few Directors (as shown in the Red HDT VL Aero) was a Pioneer pull-out car stereo retaining the original speakers. We either cut out the driver’s side of the triangle, or filed a taper on the sides of radio panel to get it to fit (I can’t remember which).

Other directors retained the factory Eurovox radio cassette

The Telecom Car Phone System (the old 007 number) would’ve been installed by South Melbourne Car Radio in City Rd. They had the contract for installing Telecom Car Phones at the time.

I’m still involved in car radios, more so repairing radios from early valve to almost current day, in Melbourne. Mark Sully Old Car Radios Fixed