This was a 65  Parisienne. I know we have pics in an old photo album...just not sure if we have interior pics. Thing was...mom remembers it having the wonderbar radio...not going to second guess mom and dad!!!

Carl Stevenson wrote:

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hawkeye5766 wrote:

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This was a 65  Parisienne. !

-- Edited by hawkeye5766 on Tuesday 4th of December 2018 01:39:28 AM

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Oh I don't doubt it for a second. I am willing to bet very few people ordered one.

It seems to be that GM had a floor button to search for stations in some of the earlier ones, maybe in the 50's? I think the button looked like a dimmer switch button. Anyone else seen that, or am I dreaming?

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A buddy of mine is into early 50's Buick's, and has a 52 Buick woody wagon in his collection.  It was just featured on a show on the french channel Unis, a show called Histoires de chars.   He has a Wonderbar radio in that car.

When I sold my 55 Chevy in the mid 70s  I pulled my Wonderbar radio from the car.......

I  still have it. As mentioned there's  a lot of radio there. Most of it is  tubes and has a built in speaker. It's hidden behind 

the passenger side dash area. Strictly AM , today  the search and seek would have

to work real hard to find AM stations on the highways of Alberta.

G

Thanks Todd. Not very financially rewarding. People will spend $10,000 on a paint job but balk at a $300 repair bill on a radio needing $100 worth of parts and a few weekends to repair. Pre 1959 Wonderbars can be quite involved and have multiple faults. I just do it as I love it...

Jonny, the Buick and the Cadillac haven't pre-sets. Round and round you go... The oldest wonderbar with pre-sets that I have worked on was for a '54 Fleetwood.

Canadian Poncho wrote:

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I have an 1937 Floor model Westinghouse radio with a preset feature. I've had 2 antique radio guys get the radio working (one when I bought it over 30 years ago and another a year ago) but neither could figure out how the presets work. Too bad you are so far away. I'm sure you could sort it out.

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Todd,

My sister has a 1939 Zenith floor model radio with presets. It was in the family since the early 60's

I seem to remember reading somewhere that some radios had the mechanical lever style presets.....

set the station you want and pull the preset button and push to activate (like the old car radios.

Here's a link to  The Perpetual Troubleshooters Manual.

published from 1931 - 1954.

Rider worked with many radio manufacturers as possible to get servicing information that was available so the yearly bound

volumes were large,sometimes 2000 pages.

Manufactureres were mainly represented from the United States. http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/oldradio/

You may find information on the presets here.

-G

I have this one at the shop getting serviced. it is a 65 B-body. I have this one at the shop getting serviced. it is a 65 B-body.