radio speakers

[steve from staten island]

My new radio is about to arrive and i have a question. The rear speakers? The car is a convertible and I'm not crazy about cutting a hole in the rear interior panels for speakers. Ive seen these speakers that lay on floor and are under front seats. If i have to cut rear panels how would i do that without butchering them? Any advise is appreciated

 

[Mike67]

If you don't want to cut, you can buy a powered sub, Bazooka Tube, Infinity BassLink pretty cheap. Will need a powered circuit and an input from tour stereo.

 

[PurpleBeeper]

I've had to deal with this too. IMO - DON'T cut those rear convertible interior panels since they're crazy expensive & hard to find. I used to have 6"x9" speakers installed in regular old, cheap house stereo boxes just laying in my back seat (poor man's option). Otherwise, Mike67's idea sounds like a better one.

I've also considered building a speaker box in the trunk that clears the top mechanism when the top is down. You can un-snap the boot well to get better sound if you like with the top up, but it'd be hard to hear with the top down.

 

[OH71RRunner]

If you don't have anybody riding in the back seat, you could get some nice 6x9's and 6x9 boxes and place them on the floorboard between the front and rear seats. Speakers faced up.
The under seat speakers don't sound great because of the placement. I'm not a huge fan of those.
Or, you could get creative and mount smaller speakers (4", 4.5", or 5" speakers) and custom enclosures under (the bottom side) the dash facing down. This has worked well for a couple installs I had done in the past.

I know you were talking about rear speakers, but quality speakers up front, you will not need rear speakers.

Kick panel inserts could work as well.

Just a couple options to keep from cutting up something that's hard to replace.

 

[plumkrazy]

My new radio is about to arrive and i have a question. The rear speakers? The car is a convertible and I'm not crazy about cutting a hole in the rear interior panels for speakers. Ive seen these speakers that lay on floor and are under front seats. If i have to cut rear panels how would i do that without butchering them? Any advise is appreciated

check out this webpage retromanufacturing.com they a dual cone stero dspeaker thi fits in the dash to replace

My new radio is about to arrive and i have a question. The rear speakers? The car is a convertible and I'm not crazy about cutting a hole in the rear interior panels for speakers. Ive seen these speakers that lay on floor and are under front seats. If i have to cut rear panels how would i do that without butchering them? Any advise is appreciated

 

[plumkrazy]

Check out this webpage https://www.retromanufacturing.com they make a direct replacement stereo speaker for the dash

 

[WileE]

I put Jensen 6X9 's on my rear shelf... just like I did 40 years ago. But you have a ragtop, DON'T CUT ANYTHING. I once had purples poor man's option suggestion a few years ago, with a pair of 6x9 in boxes in back, worked good for cheapo me

 

[Ron H]

the rear speakers were cut out in my 63 convert when I bought it 20 years ago and had the panels repaired. Then I recut them for speakers after I installed new stereo last year. I regret doing it because rear speakers in a convert are a waste with noise and wind. I should have done under dash as I first thought of doing. I kept the original inserts that were made so may reinstall the panels need reuphostering anyway.

 

[rrTor-Red]

Don't cut it! Go to www.turnswitch.com and check out Greg's speakers for our cars

 

[Photon440]

Just put a headphone jack on your radio.

 

[Ron H]

On a related note, anyone know if the Sport Fury rear panels were different than the Fury? Seems that I've seen another style. I have the plain Jane type, no arm rest or profile. They're vinyl covered and as such an easy repair. Posted an older photo of mine (after removing the speakers some years ago and recovering panels). As you notice the red color is off shade that I'm going to recover (pic was taken before installing a new courtesy light fixtures). Legendary had redone the seats in the Sport Fury pattern with buckets as originally was a bench seat.

 

[steve from staten island]

the rear speakers were cut out in my 63 convert when I bought it 20 years ago and had the panels repaired. Then I recut them for speakers after I installed new stereo last year. I regret doing it because rear speakers in a convert are a waste with noise and wind. I should have done under dash as I first thought of doing. I kept the original inserts that were made so may reinstall the panels need reuphostering anyway.

You know i never considered road noise with top down. I have one of those new dual cone speakers but thought i needed two more as i have a new retro modern radio. I was hesitant to touch those rear panels and now i will not. Now I'm thinking of just two small speakers in the kick panels and leaving it at that. Thanks

 

[PurpleBeeper]

Yeah, that kick-panel idea is a good one which I've considered. I installed one of those two small speaker plates that fits where the one weird shaped dash speaker goes (also lets me split left/right). I'm also lucky that all convertibles got the additional two speakers on top the dash (left/right) and I upgraded those to better ones. I've run some wires for back speakers, but still haven't decided exactly which way to go with those. A "kicker" in the trunk might be OK too as mentioned.

 

[polywideblock]

a set of these
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181145653974?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

and one or two of these under front seats
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191886224582?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT