Thinking about getting this... Fleetwood 21-41

[VintagePC]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Probably sort of like one of those circus cars that all the clowns come out of....

I know what a car PACKED full of vintage electronics looks like from all the swap meets I've attended with a couple of c-notes and the family Honda CR-V(both the new one and the old one that got totaled)...There have been a few times where I dragged two consoles at once home in that thing(usually along with a bunch of tube radios and other gear for padding not to mention the folks up front and me in the back seat swimming in gear).

The CR-V is one of the best SUVs IMHO for this kind of hobby...big enough for most large consoles(or two smaller ones ), some gear, and passengers, yet not a freakin' boat to drive and with fairly good MPG.

There was about 1 inch to spare. The TV chassis went in the side door and was half wedged up on the gap in the bottom of the cabinet, and resting on the window. The top back corner of the cabinet was about 1" from the rear windscreen. I still don't know how we managed that.

Didn't think to take a pic though.

[Charlie]

Yeah, it's hard to remember to take a pic. By the time it's all done, you're just thankful that it somehow got squeezed in there.

Funny to think... I remember times in which I squeezed console sets into my 72 Duster... mainly due to the way the front seats were made... the backs would fold all the way down in a horizontal position... allowing to get some pretty decent sized sets in there.

I tried to get a color roundie in my 67 Galaxie 500 one time... and failed. I was in Las Angeles. The Galaxie had bucket seats, and mega square footage inside the car, but the back of the passenger seat didn't fold down quite enough. I would have had to remove the passenger seat to get the set in there. I didn't have a wrench to get under the car with, so the seat remained... and the roundie did, too.

[BigDavesTV]

Cool combo tv, best of luck to you, VintagePC! We hope to see pic's. of it working one day! To chime in with Charlie, My first car (1977) was a '69 Pontiac Catalina, 2-door sport coupe, with bench seats! By opening wide, the big long passenger side door, with front bench seat all the way forward, and the seatback on that side tilted toward the dash, I hauled (one at a time, of course, two different RCA Color Consoles! One was a CTC16 Roundie "The Gladstone", and the other a CTC25 rectangular in a nice French Provincial Style cabinet! Of course then I was 17, and not full of the arthritis!

[VintagePC]

So do I

I think I mentioned this earlier but I have a new thread where I'll be doing the actual restoration with lots of pics, be sure to drop by there if you haven't already. Once I'm done or have a huge headway, I'll do a writeup like the one linked in my sig below.

Gotta share the awesomeness with the world!