Modern Audio in Classic Cars: Custom Autosound

We got Mike Daughgherty in the garage today from Custom Autosound. How you doing Mike? Good. It's good to be back. It shows, great having you man.

Well, Custom Autosound, you guys have been bringing modern tunes to classic cars for quite a while. Since 1977. That's quite a while. Well, back in 77, when you want a good tunes you'd have to take out your stock stereo. You'd put in some aftermarket and you'd always have to hack the thing up to do that.

You had great tunes, but then, you know later on you realized you probably shouldn't have hacked that dash up, because now that car is worth something and it's worth less because you've hacked up the dash. Right? You guys solve that problem because you make all of these units that will fit right into factory openings. Right. And I mean, the earliest thing you did was really an AMFM cassette back in the cassette days.

People still have those. Right. That's what this baby is here but you have all these different face plates and all these different sizes to fit into the factory openings. This face plate goes for those with what? That's a 59 Impala.

So I'll slap that baby in. It's going to look just like the 59 Impala radio. Nobody's going to know, but it's going to sound a heck of a lot better. Right. Now, stepping it up a little bit.

This is just an AMF. But it's a very clean AMFM and it can handle other inputs like iPod or something. Right, you can plug iPod into the back of it. You can add amplifiers to it, Faceplate for? That faceplate is a 55 Chevy.

All right. How about over here now? Let's take it up another level. This baby would fit into what? That one is for a 58 to 67 Volkswagen.

And we also stepped it up, it has USB flash drive input on it. So you've got your your tunes on a thumb drive. You just plugged that baby in. Plug it in and control it all from the buttons on the radio. And at the end there?

This is another six 30 same model as this one, but that one is for a 67, 68 Camaro. So again, these things are all gonna look stock. They're going to fit in a stock opening. Right. It's fantastic.

And we have about 400 different applications. That's quite a few. Well, then you also can help me out. You know, I've got the great electronics but speakers were always an issue too. And without chopping things up, you've come up with these dual voice cone speakers, right.

I mean, it takes in both inputs. Yeah. Left and right. And it runs two voice cones but with a fairly large base cone. Right.

And I'll still feel it fit in a dash fed Fit in the stock location, just like it should. Yeah. But secret audio, you're on at least your third generation secret audio. I think that's the coolest thing you guys do. if you know, if you don't want to see anything that's it right there.

Right. Yeah, with secret audio, it's kind of a remote system. It's got a black box. So you can mount in the trunk or under the seat you got a cable that goes from the control panel. You can also flush mount this control panel or bracket mount it and control the system from this.

If you mount this in the glove box or in an ashtray you can also control it with an RF remote. And I can use this kind of stealth antenna for it to, you know, kind of stash that someplace too. And I don't see anything. And I'm controlling it with RF remote. It's the greatest but you stepped it up one more time with secret audio.

One more step. We've got a new remote for the secret audio. It's RF remote. You don't need the LCD display. This remote gives you all the information right on the LCT.

So it's two way. Two way RF. So all the information from your radio stations you're listened to, or the name of the song you're listening to, it comes up on the screen. You control the whole system by wireless remote. Now that that's gotta be the coolest thing you've done.

Yeah, I think so. It's rechargeable it's, you know, I mean, people fret about where to mount this. Yeah, now they don't have have to worry. Don't even think about it. That's it.

You just use the remote. Well, it is great. You know, you've got these great classic cars. You never had good music and you got to have if you're gonna cruise. You need tunes.

You need tunes, you need tunes. So you guys have taken care of that and you haven't damaged the car.