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04-11-2007, 02:39 PM
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Try eBay -- search "vintage becker," "mercedes radio," vintage blaupunkt," etc... and you'll find all sorts of interesting stuff. There are regular listings from a couple of places in Germany that specialize in period radios. If you don't see what you need, email them and I'll bet they can round one up for you.
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04-11-2007, 05:31 PM
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Go to www.mbzponton.org and join the ponton discussion group. We've got over 600 owners there that can help you out. Might also do a search for radio on the Ponton Page. There is a nice write up on radios there.
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04-12-2007, 01:41 AM
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04-14-2007, 06:17 PM
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The dash radio-housing will accomodate many German radios, including later transistorized ones, but the correct original radios were large tube AM or AM-FM units, using separately-mounted vibrator-power supply boxes. Most common original radios were the Becker Europa AM-FM. with the ultimate being the Becker Mexico AM-FM with the 'Wonderbar' automatic tuning feature. Blaupunkt radios were also common. Phillips, Telefunken or Grundig much less so. How original and correct do you want your radio installation to be? Reason I ask is I recently visited the Ponton site and while some of the radios appear correct or pretty close, others appear to be more modern radios installed in original radio housings, and in other cases holes were cut through the blank dash housings to add radios. If you're looking to find a correct old radio on places like eBay, one tip-off is the type of knobs which should exactly match the ones in your dash. Up through '58, Mercedes dash & radio knobs were polished aluminum, with brown plastic centers. One of these would fit and look fine, but if you were really fussy you'd want to change the knobs to the '59 through mid '60s style, which were brown plastic with a chrome ring center. One of these radios, including the early transistor models, would be closest in appearance to original for a '59 180D. Late '60s Mercedes radio/dash knobs looked similar but were flatter and larger diameter, and the radio faceplates were taller and a different style. The radios may fit but won't look exactly right for a '59 180D. Hope this helps. Happy Motoring, Mark
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