[Tigers] Motorola radio restoration

[Tom Witt]

There is a guy named Roy Yost in the Redwood City, CA. area who does old radios.  I only know of him as “Radio Roy” on the Studebaker site. I’ve never had any business with him. But, with many Tiger owner in the Bay Area maybe they have used his services can comment on price/quality?

From: Randy Zimmermann via Tigers 
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 1:14 PM
To: awtiger at cox.net ; tigers at autox.team.net 
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Motorola radio restoration

I purchased a similar kit several years ago and had the radio rebuilt with digital AM/FM/Aux components and have never looked back. I saved the original internal organs for posterity.  I used a shop in Crystal, MN that was recommended by our MN Street Rod Association.  I'm sure you could find someone more local to you.

BTW, you can get a single speaker with dual cones to handle the stereo wiring if you choose to go that direction.  I think it was the late, great Steve Laifman that recommended using small marine speakers under the dash on port and starboard to expand the stereo sound.  I did this and love the results.  And no one can tell by looking at the set up.  Folks love the look of the LAT-72 installed at shows!

Randy Z.
Duluth, MN





On Monday, March 30, 2015 3:03 PM, awtiger--- via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:




Hey, guys:

I'm now deep into the electrical restoration of my Tiger, as in installing a complete harness from British Wiring.  I've got all the wiring out of the car at this point and am taking care of a few other items that need attention under the dash before it all goes back in, and one of those items is my radio.  I have a LAT-72 Motorola radio kit in my car that has never worked.  The reason it has never worked (and I found out the hard way...) is because the radio itself is a positive ground unit out of an earlier Alpine.  Unfortunately, when you hook up a positive ground radio in your Tiger without realizing it's a positive ground unit, all you get after a few seconds of music is "sizzle sizzle," and then nothing.  I've been told by folks before that the ground orientation on a radio can easily be switched, so here's my question...do any of you guys know where I might be able to send this radio to have that done and then have it repaired?  I'm not looking for a high-quality audio experie
nce here; I just want it to work and play over the single speaker provided with the LAT-72 kit.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Andy Walker
Edmond, OK
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