Door identification part I - HQ

[micks_sandman]

Weren't they put in the kick panel???

[Taily]

Weren't they put in the kick panel???

Yes, however the centre oval speaker is (possibly) more common until FM radio really kicked-off in the mid 70's. I have an original documented set of 4inch stereo speakers that were fitted to the kickpanels of my HJ ute. They had a lightweight metal plate over the speaker assy and were fitted with a spring steel speed nut in each corner. Stereo in the 70's usually involved a speaker balance knob under the dash (oddly mine was on the passenger side of the underdash while the 8-track cradle was under the right).

As the others have said there is a position in the middle for a single speaker which was probably more suited to the original AM mono radios. Even the VB Commodore still had a centre speaker only fitted from new.

The doof doof machine of choice for utes and vans in Sydney in 1975 was the Philips AM/FM/cassette player with remote clarion plastic moulded stereo speakers - the ones you could either hang in the top corners or sit behind/next to the seats to drive with or when pulled-up have them both on the roof or dangling out the windows for a van or even pointed back into the back of a van. Oh yeah!

As for the sound..... bass hadn't been discovered quite yet, that would have to wait until the mid 80's......

Regards,

Dave