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Originally Posted by Brendan
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Funny as I watched the movie years ago and never noticed the radio. It is obviously fake because the depth of a radio of the era would not have fit facing the tank like that.
I bought a universal fit Philco 1935 radio with thoughts of fitting it someday to my '29 Tudor. The radio unit would fit in the passenger footwell and radio control panel could fit under the Tudor central dash facia. But I always felt it would be ugly. Probably Henry felt his Model A could not be designed to have these new fangled radio contraptions? Certainly 1927 radio technology had not matured enough for radio as a practical consideration in a Ford.
Just to note, I have an RCA Radiola 62 console superheterodyne from 1928. (Note all practical car radios from the early thirties onward had to be superheterodyne). It cost then new about $300 or more than half the original cost of a new Ford Tudor! It is interesting to put the the relative technologies of the time into proper perspective.