Autovox Car-radio Ra 451

[firenzeprima]

autovox is a trademark Italian radio for automobiles. this is a model of 60 years "all germanium transistors." it is very particular. has only 3 wavelength range, monaural. its particularity was that the two parties were separable to be adapted to any type of car. this was mounted on the NSU prinz of my mother. subdued the flood of 1966 of Florence.
I was restored and is fully functional
in attach pdf format an similar model

[Kiwick]

i have this same radio!

Autovox car radios were unusual in many ways, i have some 70s Autovox Melody cassette car stereos and their mechanism is excellent and absolutely unique! you have to push the "joystick button" once to engage the tape, then move it left and right to rewind and fast forward, and then push it again to eject the tape...

This is one of the very few mechanism that can be trusted not to chew your tapes even after 30 years and thousands of hours of use... the only thing they usually need to work like new is a belt and a drop of oil on the motor bearings and on the shaft of the brass idler pulley

By the way, Were Autovox radio available in the US back then?

Italiano:
Ho anche io questa radio!

Le autoradio Autovox sono molto originali, ho diversi autoradio con mangianastri stereo Autovox Melody anni '70, il meccanismo del mangiacassette e' stranissimo! per far partire la cassetta bisogna premere il tasto "joystick" multifunzione, muovendolo a destra e sinistra si manda avanti ed indietro il nastro, e premendolo di nuovo si espelle la cassetta

Questo e' uno dei pochi meccanismi che non rischiano di stracciare i nastri anche dopo oltre 30 anni e migliaia di ore di uso... le uniche attenzioni di cui hanno bisogno sono l'eventuale sostituzione della cinghia ed un goccetto d'olio sulle boccole del motore e sull'albero della puleggia di rinvio in ottone

[firenzeprima]

Originally Posted by Kiwick

i have this same radio!

Autovox car radios were unusual in many ways, i have some 70s Autovox Melody cassette car stereos and their mechanism is excellent and absolutely unique! you have to push the "joystick button" once to engage the tape, then move it left and right to rewind and fast forward, and then push it again to eject the tape...

This is one of the very few mechanism that can be trusted not to chew your tapes even after 30 years and thousands of hours of use... the only thing they usually need to work like new is a belt and a drop of oil on the motor bearings and on the shaft of the brass idler pulley

By the way, Were Autovox radio available in the US back then?

Italiano:
Ho anche io questa radio!

Le autoradio Autovox sono molto originali, ho diversi autoradio con mangianastri stereo Autovox Melody anni '70, il meccanismo del mangiacassette e' stranissimo! per far partire la cassetta bisogna premere il tasto "joystick" multifunzione, muovendolo a destra e sinistra si manda avanti ed indietro il nastro, e premendolo di nuovo si espelle la cassetta

Questo e' uno dei pochi meccanismi che non rischiano di stracciare i nastri anche dopo oltre 30 anni e migliaia di ore di uso... le uniche attenzioni di cui hanno bisogno sono l'eventuale sostituzione della cinghia ed un goccetto d'olio sulle boccole del motore e sull'albero della puleggia di rinvio in ottone

E 'unbelievable sometimes how, after so many years and after the flood, the radio after a good cleaning and a review of the components, functions perfectly. also we Italians, many years ago, building good electronic devices. I had on car of my father Autovox car compac cassette paid, I remember, 140,000 lire. was kind of pull the lever with the multifunction as you say, but if operations was too fast.... zac! she ate the tape.

[Celt]

I remember an "Audiovox" here in the states from the late 60's to mid-70's. Probably not the same outfit though.

[electroking]

I only see the Medium Wave frequencies on the tuning knob. Where are the other
bands?

[firenzeprima]

Originally Posted by electroking

I only see the Medium Wave frequencies on the tuning knob. Where are the other
bands?

you are right, this version has only a wavelength range while being prepared to commute the possibility, through the ring chromed knob on the line, 2 other positions. the model number to match the one shown in pdf files. I did not find any other documentation, not even on the site of autovox

[Kiwick]

Originally Posted by firenzeprima

I had on car of my father Autovox car compac cassette paid, I remember, 140,000 lire. was kind of pull the lever with the multifunction as you say, but if operations was too fast.... zac! she ate the tape.

This was probably a model from the later Sirio series, they had a different, smaller mechanism which was less reliable, but it still had the multifunction button...

The older, larger Melody "blue line" series had some fancy features on some top of the line models... some were able to record, others had a mechanical signal seeking feature driven by the cassette deck's motor...

Quella che dici era probabilmente un modello della successiva serie Sirio, che aveva un meccanismo diverso, piu' compatto e meno affidabile, ma aveva un pulsante multifunzione molto simile...

Alcuni dei modelli di punta della vecchia serie Melody "linea azzurra" avevano delle funzioni esotiche tipo la possibilita' di registrare o la ricerca automatica delle stazioni meccanica, azionata dal motore del mangianastri...