Both the factory- and dealer-installed speaker options are lsited in the '61-'63 OFS manual.Īs for the radios, again the rear seat option got you the fader on the AM and AM-FM radios. Add to this a dealer-installed reverb box that mounted in the trunk, and you can see there were a variety of ways to add audio to a '63. It had a separate fader switch that was was installed in the dash in the panel for the map light. There was a dealer-installed rear seat speaker available as well, which used a cast metal frame and separate perforated grille that mounted over the top of the package tray, with the studs for the frame used to support the speaker.
#63 t bird install#
I was going to install it in my '63 then decided to keep it as delivered from the factory. I have a couple of the package shelfs with the perforations as well as the rear seat speaker mounting hardware and harness that plugs into the main loom that goes into the trunk. The substructure under the package shelf was set up to allow for installation of the speaker, which is mounted on a stamped sheet metal plate that bolts to the body substructure under the shelf. Package shelfs that were perforated for a rear seat speaker were used with the speaker opening offset to the side (I forget whether it was passenger or driver, think it was passenger). I say he is dead wrong.Ī factory-installed rear seat speaker option was available for '63 closed cars. And he says the radios did not have a Fader, I am trying to create this feature. My opposition says the '63s did not have a rear seat speaker, could not "carry" a 2nd speaker and adding one would ruin the radio and that I have done so by adding a rear speaker (I didn't add it, it was already there with my AM radio). This Fader control was the large knob on the right side of these radios, behind the smaller Station Selection knob. (I've owned three '63s and all three had a factory made pre-punched rear window shelves.) And the AM and particularly the AM/FM radios came with a Fader, to enable "balancing" the front to rear seat speaker output (volume level of the front versus rear speaker). This pre-fabricated location for the rear speaker was not centered, but offset to the passenger side. I say 1963 T-Birds came with a factory pre-punched rear deck shelf (aka, package shelf) to accommodate a rear radio speaker. Can anyone confirm for me - I have an intense debate going.
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