check out Retro-sound radios. I have one in my 66. Works great and fits well.

My advice would be to install a real modern head unit hidden somewhere and keep an OEM radio in the dash.  All the "custom fit" classic stuff from my experience has been junk, and often didn't even fit all that well.  In fairness I'm a bit of an audiophile, but if you want modern quality sound; you need modern quality equipment.  The problem is that OEM audio systems in new cars are really quite good now, and that's the standard to which we've all become accustomed.  What sounded good 20 years ago now sounds like crap by comparison.

If you're counting on a head unit to serve as an amp you've already lost.  There's just not enough room in the chassis, you end up overdriving the amp, heating it up, and in short order it fails. 

You need speakers that can handle 100 watts max or more.  Most head units put out at most 40 watts, and you'll find you need that as RMS (translation: all the time) to be able to hear the speakers driving down the road.  Like I said, pushing max watts all the time will just kill the amp and then the head nit is junk.

I have a '67, so I simply modified my stock bezel to hold a DIN chassis head unit, hid some crossovers behind the glove box, installed component speakers in kick panel pods and A-pillar mounts I built, modified a repro fastback trap door to hold two 6x9s, ran a 4 channel amp for those speakers with a low pass filter running the lows into a two channel amp powering a 10" sub in the trunk.  By no means the best system I've ever had, but it does the job and sounds awesome.

Last edited by TKOPerformance (8/11/2018 4:39 AM)