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Old Grumpy
I was cleaning up the garage yesterday and came across two old Ford radios that I had acquired over the years. One was for my 83 Bronco and the other was for, I believe, a 73 Mercury Montego. I think they both work. In fact the Montego radio was in a plastic bag. My late step father had probably bought it for his 73 Montego Brougham Coupe and never installed it. It is an AM/FM unit the sliding selector bar that says "STEREO" and the little sliding balance tab under the black station setting buttons. It even still has the original Ford rubber coated one way bullet connectors on the back. I actually purchased the 83 radio from a wrecking yard to replace the failed unit in my 83 Bronco XLT. My teen age daughter was using the Bronco as her daily driver at the time and she bought a state of the art car stereo with a removable face, etc. to go into the Bronco, making this one excess. Like the 73 "two knob" radio, it has both the factory plugs and the harness sides of same. It features an integral cassette player and digital display clock/frequency indicator. My problem is that I don't know what to do with these radios. I believe they both still work but I don't think they are worth much. It's just that I don't want to keep them cluttering up my shop and I don't really want to just throw them in the trash or drop them off at an electronics recycle center. I'm sure someone restoring a Montego or Torino would love to have the older one. The "newer" one is still 30 years old and probably hard to come by for somebody restoring a deluxe interior Bronco or F series truck of that vintage. I think that radio was used into the very late 80s or early 90s. I learned my lesson when I got sand blasted by the local Mustang shop owner when he found out I'd thrown the front drums and spindles from my 69 vert into the dumpster when I converted it to discs. Any suggestions of how to responsibly and respectfully dispose of these two old pieces?
