The Motorola was made as a positive ground, negative ground or reverse
polarity an was labeled as such,
Doug
> If the Motorola was made for the American market, how did it handle
> the
> reverse polarity ( + earth )? Unless you could change the polarity
> of the
> radio or car, the whole system, including antenna would have to be
> electrically isolated from the Healey. I learned this the hard
> way.
> Mad Mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Olin Brimberry
> To: HealeyRick
> Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Austin Healey Radio?
>
>
> I actually have an original Motorola that came from a BJ8 and it
> is
> identical in knobs and in font to the numbers, but it did not
> have
> "AUSTIN HEALEY" on it. I would bet that was an original US band
> Motorola radio that someone put the AH sticker on it. Kind of
> like
> the windshield sunblocks with the car model typed across it.
> There
> was probably an outfit making these for radio face plates (sold at
> JC
> WHitney) when graphics were being overdone in the 80s.
>
> Olin
> On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:47 PM, HealeyRick wrote:
>
> > Doug,
> >
> > I think it's interesting that if I was the original owner of
> this
> > car, I would
> > call the radio a "factory" one. In reality, who knows? Did
> > Motorola make a
> > special run for Healeys? Did the distributor or dealer
> commission
> > some
> > special faceplates? All part of the fun of trying to determine
> what
> > was
> > "original".
> >
> > Rick
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