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I did this on another forum and it was fun.  What is the first system you ever installed?

For me, it was an under-dash Craig AM/FM 8-track player and a set of 6X9 whizzer-cone speakers from Radio Shack.  One speaker in the dash and one in the rear shelf of a 1955 Chevy Bel Air.  :)

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My first install was wild. I had two Kicker 15's on a Sherwood 240 amp. Then I had four Pioneer 6x9's and teo Pioneer 4X6's in the front doors. All of this was hooked on the same amp. I had a Pyramid crossover. I had wires everywhere in the trunk. It was in an '84 Buick Park Avenue. It sounded damn good on the inside of the car, but when you stepped out of it, you didn't hear anything except a little(and I do mean little) trunk noise. lmao
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My first install was my own car, an 89 Cadillac Eldarado Baritz,  two pink Crankensteins, pyramid 800 watt, pioneers in the back, none in the front (grin)... pretty hardcore.  I'm only 21 so it's not an old install... Funny anways :)

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haha   i first install you could say, was (6) 6x9's hooked up all to the factory radio in a 90 grand am     i thought it HIT,   boy have i came a long way, my first real system was factory internals with tweets powered by the jensen head unit, and then 2 15 inch kicker golds   those were great..haha
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i did my first install was also my first custom one i did me friends 1990 firbird formula. pioneer deck, 6 disck changer, i think they were 4" pioneers for the front off the radio, pioneer 200 watt 6x9's for the rear powered by a boss amp, and 2 10" pioneer subs powered by a lanzar amp i think. it was a cutally a decent sounding system but what i see what i do for my friends now its pretty funny
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My first install was in the last year in my 2000 4Runner. A Panasonic MXE CQ-DFX983U with pioneer speakers in front and back, Alpine mrd-m500 with an Eclipse 15 aluminum all in a fiberglass box. It sounds pretty damn good and i plan on adding another amp and 15 this summer.
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Hmmmmm think i have alot beat on this one. Picture this, 79 Monte Carlo, piss green color with grass green interior. (All this was around 1990). Alpine cassette deck, 2 old Roadmaster EQ/Boosters, pair of Clarion 3.5"s in the dash, pair of Radio Shack 4" crap speakers mounted on either side of this homemade center console which also housed the boosters, Pioneer 6X9's(they were sweet) in the rear dash, not mounted just laying in the back window, 1 RF Series 1 12" in a very poor built ported box powered by a Craig amp i got at some auto parts store. Sad thing is, when i finally upgraded to a pullout radio, i had it installed at a local shop, them guys were laughin there a$$e$ off at this rigged up crap i had, BUT, when they cranked it up they were actually quite impressed with how well it did. Like everyone else, came along way since those days but fun to look back on.
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My first was in a new '87 Chevy standard cab S-10. I built a box to fit behind the seat and put a pair of Pioneer 6x9 and a pair of Kenwood 8' subsin a single 3'4" plywood box, with no specs to the box.
A new Kenwood cassette player (I still have and works).
A pair of Pioneer 6.5 laid on the top of the seat by my and my passengers ears.
A Pyramid powered EQ with leds that moved up and down with the sound pushing my 6x9's and 6.5's.
A Kenwood amp for the subs.
To this day it was one of my loudest setups, I would actually be temperary deaf when I turned it down.
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92 chevy corsica....bought a little old mtx amp...lanzar 12  in single bandpass box....kenwood HU D-mask bought at the same pawn shop...all for about 400 bucks....loved It....and a pair of alpine 6x9s in the rear deck....I loved it (was on cloud 9)... the good old days

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85 toyota pickup.  Alpine cassette with RF series one 2 ch amp and two legacy 6x9s behind the seat.  I thought it rocked and so did someone else.  Busted wing window=missing HU and crappy speakers.  At least they couldn't get the amp which I recently gave away.  I suppose they did me a favor by taking the speakers.
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