1970 Radios?

In 1991 at Carlisle I happened to arrive about 6am, as one vendor was unloading several boxes of mopar radios. He had 3 70B body am/fm's and I bought all of them for $120. I kept 2 for restorations and sold one on ebay for $600 a couple years ago.

It is a one year only part as mentioned. I've seen B body cars with A body am/fm's which will fit somewhat but have a different faceplate/dial arrangement.

As far as 1970 B body AM FMs, I have sold a dozen or so (fully serviced/restored) in the past in the $ 750 - $ 850 range.
I don't even bother buying these anymore to resell because the buy in price is so high now.
Now, you seldom see one priced below $ 1,000 .
You will probably pay $ 500 or more for a non-working unit .
I consider the 70 B AM FM to be the "King' of all Mopar radios , as far as supply/demand .I probably service ten times as many 1970 E body AM FMs as I do the B body , and I get probably ten times as many 68-9 B body AM FMs in this shop than the 70 B body.

Greg

hi, i have a 1970 road runner with an am/fm that fits in the stock opening. i bought it a long time ago an i am wondering if it is a correct 1970 b -body radio. are there specific ways of telling,thanks

Refer to the picture a few posts above.

The first thing I look for are the screws and pins that hold and locate the radio in the dash.

The A-body version is held in by nuts over the volume/tuning shafts.

The 1970 B body AM FM (# 2884753)is unique . No other radio looks like it.

The lense(which is blacked out across the top) push buttons (which have squares facing up ) mounting bolt hole locations on front of housing (knob shafts not threaded) are all unique features to the 70 B.

By the way, the radio pictured above does not have the correct push buttons. It looks like someone swapped the tuner mechanism, buttons and all , with an A body unit.

Greg

Here is a pic of one of my radios . I don't have a picture showing the top of the buttons . The 1970 B is the only Mopar A B E C body radio to have black buttons with squares on top (some C bodys had chrome ones)

Another 70,came in the car from new.

While were on this subject can any id these by part #

2884128

2884759

The incorrect buttons are in fact A body pieces, as you can tell from the shape . The B is more square and slightly textured at the very tip.
A body is more smooth, rounded edges . IF , and it's a very big IF , the above radio came from the assembly plant with those buttons, it would be because they ran out of the correct ones, and it would be the only one I have ever seen (and I have handled at least 175-200 1970 B body radios in this shop)
By the way, Their were 2 diffrent vendors for the 1970 B body radios
(Bendix and Phillips) 3 diffrent buttons for the 70 B , and all 3 buttons have the squares facing up .
I have seen a couple cases where some dork took his buttons off and tried to turn them over , but that's another story.

Greg

..sorry to hi jack but was wondering how to remove the pusbuttons?
i'd like to put the chrome ones from an AM radio on my AM FM which are black.