Reproduction LAT 72 Housing

The only advice I can offer is to join STOC and ask there, but surely you could get one made in the US for $500.
It seems to be a license to print money.
 
There were accurate repros being made in australia about 5 years back, some guys inthe USA bought them and were onselling them, there was this source in the Uk, dont know about quality.. a good idea would be to check the STOC forum... rob martel was making them for a while in canada...
 
Repro Radio Hangers

We did a small production run of them a few years ago. The man-hours involved for such a small frame weren't viable to continue as a sale item. There may be recycle yards out there with a few originals waiting & lonely.
 
With the help of Norm Miller and some detective work I have located
the source in England and have purchased a complete housing. Turns out the gentlemen has several available at the current time for a show at the end of the month. Price is 175 pounds plus shipping with is another 32 pounds
so figure a little over $300. If anyone would like the contact info just send me a PM and I'd be happy to give it to you. The quality looks outstanding in the pictures..

Moondoggie
 
My housing arrived in the mail yesterday and it is an exceptional
reproduction. The workmanship is first class. Pictures attached


Moondoggie
 
Yes the face plate is not centered in the picture and chalk that up
to wanting to see how it goes together quickly. You can move the radio and face plate off center on either side by about a half each. That radio was a find,
1964 NOS Motorola...AM

Moondoggie
 
Radio House

Looks good. Pic 2 shows the stand-off holes that attach to the extention tubes on the original hanger. A good find . . . . .
 
Question

OK, so I have a question... I hope it isn't a dumb question. The LAT 72 is definitely cool, and I'd love to have one, but I'm wondering what years they were actually used in Tigers in their day. I've consistently seen a different type of radio in MK2 cars (and some MK1A), which was a simple black metal bezel, trapezoidal in shape, with no speaker beneath. I actually have one of these setups, NOS and still in the box with all the little bits and the instructions on how to install it into the Alpine/Tiger. The radio itself is a transistor AM radio made by Bendix in Maryland and branded "Sunbeam". Very interesting, but it begs a question to me... When was the LAT 72 used, and when did they begin using the simpler setup I've seen mainly in the MK2? Was the LAT 72 only used in MK1 cars in 1964/5? When is having an LAT 72 just super cool, but incorrect nonetheless, if ever? Thanks!
 
housing

probably 99 % of the radios in the cars when they left the dealer as a new car had a radio and housing of some other brand and not a sunbeam item. my car had a blaupunckt radio when it left byers in columbus ohio. the dealers pushed whatever they made more money on. the housing you're talking about was used on series 4 alpines ( the basis of MK1 tigers ) which started selling in 1964. i do know of a series 2 LHD alpine in the hands of the original owner since 1962 that has this same housing in it. he took delivery of the car while stationed in the UK and the dealer installed the radio and housing that day. they must have been used in some other rootes car of the time.i guess that means they would have been available thru the whole run of the tigers. was there a difference between what was used in a tiger versus an alpine?
 
65beam said:
probably 99 % of the radios in the cars when they left the dealer as a new car had a radio and housing of some other brand and not a sunbeam item. my car had a blaupunckt radio when it left byers in columbus ohio. the dealers pushed whatever they made more money on. the housing you're talking about was used on series 4 alpines ( the basis of MK1 tigers ) which started selling in 1964. i do know of a series 2 LHD alpine in the hands of the original owner since 1962 that has this same housing in it. he took delivery of the car while stationed in the UK and the dealer installed the radio and housing that day. they must have been used in some other rootes car of the time.i guess that means they would have been available thru the whole run of the tigers. was there a difference between what was used in a tiger versus an alpine?
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The radio housing with the ribbed aluminium was built by stanpart (standard triumph) they used the same housing in the hearalds and vitesse but with different brackets to attach to the specific car they were fitted, so the sunbeam brackets are different to the triumph ones but the basic housing is the same.

If you look at the period SII road test in the UK it was fitted with the housing we associate with the sunbeams and that was in 1962.

The series 3 was the first brochure i saw with the radio housing we normally associate with the sunbeams which is 1963.

As for alpines and tigers, they used the same setup, same mountings etc. there are different radios used depending if you were UK or USA.
 
LAT 72

So when was the LAT 72 setup used in Tigers? Was it used throughout, or just in early cars? Thanks.
 
Functional

Now seems most would and have installed the front facing guts of the radio in a mock attempt to have a period correct radio. Unless you really like AM radio .
Seems like a lot to do for garnishing bits on a car. I have a working AM in my 64 Falcon Conv. it is directional like an old marine radio direction finder.

I also have a early 64 Blaunpunkt LMU radio that came in my bug convt, tubes and all, but now there is a radio delete plate there.

There are some new less expensive versions of a secret audio system with a small remote and they can be heard but not seen and an aux jack for the modern data music files . Perfect and small enough to be hidden in the center console. When I am up and running more than around the hood it will be added to my to do list. Just like the old days buy a car install a new package of tunes, dating myself here but 8 tracks then casettes and cd players, I least I am not so old to have installed a 4 track tape deck.

Has anyone actually tried or installed or recomend a new latest and greatest like the mini one on ebay? plays I pod, phones all mp3 types and memory sticks.
 
Warren,

I would agree with you that the AM radio stations we get now are the craps and mostly just news talk radio. In my case I happened to have a correct antenna installed on the correct location but no radio in my Mark 1. So I decided to look around for a period correct housing and radio knowing full well that a 289 with headers running thru flowmasters would pretty much drownd out anything I might pick up. So right away I got lucky and found a 64 NOS correct AM radio for a hundred bucks !! That pretty much sealed the deal that I would go find the correct housing for the mark 1 and put it in the Tiger so that anyone that even noticed it was damn near brand new would be equally blown away that it actually worked !!! A radio in a Tiger is really useless....

Moondoggie
 
Antenna

Now that's pretty funny. I thought I was eccentric, I bought perfect Calif. black plate at a swap meet for 10 bucks the had to buy a 1965 CL 305 scrambler project to go with it.

Glad I have no antenna hole but in a right wing of my car if you stick the noggin under the fender well there is a hole patched on my toy.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Mini-iP...Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item53eb12dcdf

This is what I am talking about anyone tried it?
 
lat72

i have a hidden am/fm under the passenger seat of my 69 fastback. it has a remote control plus it has a control panel mounted in the center console. the car has the original sunbeam radio and mount also. it is wired so that the lights in it come on when i turn on the hidden radio.
 
Warren said:
Now that's pretty funny. I thought I was eccentric,

Warren,

I don't know what you find so eccentric about it ? I was confronted with two choices since that antenna was already mounted correctly in the car. A) I could use it as it was intended or B) I could weld up the hole and forget it. I have been around the restoration hobby for 49 years and over those years I have become quite good at finding hard to get NOS parts. This was pretty easy stuff compared to some cars I have owned. My initial reason for even
posting this information from the very begining was so that anyone with a desire to have an original reproduction housing that was of high qualitity
I had found a source..nothing more.....

Moondoggie
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Sorry,

My flawed attempt at humor suggesting you building a radio option around a antenna hole.
I was also trying to make fun of myself with the YOM motorcycle plate I bought and a 1965 sticker.
I drilled more than one hole in a car for a radio antenna never thinking about it and cut holes for speakers too, removed package shelfs from El Caminos so bucket seats could recline further and flared fenders on Camaros,

All crimes against cars that we now worship,

More than one guy had a turn with a drill and and sawzall or jig saw with my car and I forgive them they knew not what they were doing,,

Great minds do think alike though as when I spied the repop housing put up by our pals down under I started looking at all the postings related to the fabrication of a similar unit, and the ones from similar rag tops.

And sorry for the left turn on your thread.

W.
 
Tigrrr said:
So when was the LAT 72 setup used in Tigers? Was it used throughout, or just in early cars? Thanks.
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The LAT72 housing setup was just the factory option radio in the UK/other markets and was bundledinto the LAT catalogued parts in the USA.

The setup was used though MKI and MKIA. It would be correct for a MKII, but many MKII's were also fitted with the smaller different rubberished looking housing and later type radio. Many of these also feature the "sunbeam" lettered radio as optional on the fastbacks. However the LAT72 would still be correct for a later car as well.
 
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