What was your first install?

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.  :)

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 :)

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

79 honda civic.  jensen 3-1/2in speakers in the doors, blanupunkt 6-1/2in in a wooden box-free air, powered by old pioneer cd player, for the low's two American Pro 8's in a ported pre fabed box, powered by a walmart special road gear amp. 

All in all...it didnt sound to bad.

My first was in a 1963 Chevy Impala, in 1970 I installed a 45 rpm record player, that was so cool. right under the dash. My 2nd install was a 1965 chevy, it was a Automatic Radio 4 track cassette player. way before 8 track. LOL.

thx

Julian59 

Julian59 wrote:

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in 1970 I installed a 45 rpm record player,

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I seen that done before a dj did that type of thing it was awesome he had a little set up  it was on a X-terra

Okay I have two first. My first "real" install was in 1989 with two Pioneer original "IMPP" 12's in a 1.5cu.ft-per speaker box running off a POS Pyramid Phase 3 200 watt amp. The head unit was a Pioneer shaft mount cassette player that I didnt have a kit for b/c I was a kid and my parents weren't too supportive of my new found hobby to get a kit and harness for me and a Proton Passive EQ bought from Crutchfield for about $50 (man i was proud of that EQ). All this in a 1986 4 cylinder, 5 speed standard transmission Aerostar!

So I said 2 firsts.. "what was the other first Fosgate3?" okay I'll tell you. Before 1989, I had no concept of car audio and very very very very limited concept of electronics in general. It was in a 1982 Chevy Luv. A now classic Alpine shaft mount cassette player was the head unit. An Audiovox active eq/booster for the "mids" and "highs" which were no more than some sparkomatic 3way boxes mounted to the doors. All this was done by my brother so like others, I inherited it. My job were the subs. I somehow got 5 "gemco" dual cone 8 inch speakers that I built a raggedy box for and ran all off of one half of a Majestic 200 watt amp. The other half had already been fried by me!

That was my orgin. Like you guys, I've come along way.

speedwayaudio1 wrote:

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i see that most of us started out using brands that most people tell the newbes that they are crap. when your just starting out those brands work just fine. i saw names like boss, sparkomatic, pyramid and the like. so just remember when a newbe has a "low" brand amp or sub it's not "low" to them. I see so many times on this forum people tell others how crappy there stuff is. i hate that. cause when we started out we did the same stuff. remember how good those old "systems" sounded to us. The same goes today. the newbs stuff sounds good to them and after all they are the ones who have to hear it. that was my 2 cents<IMG height=28 src="https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/smileys/smiley16.gif" width=17>

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Word up man. Back then, I had no one. My brother was so-so with electronics and I could ask him a few questions. In fact his system was the first "real" system I had seen. He had one Cerwin Vega 10 in a down fire box underneath a "sofa seat" in a 1978 Plymouth Voyager van. He built this system back in like 1985 or 86. The amp he had was an old Lanzar50, the old butterfly style amp as it was commonly called. This was back when Lanzar made a good product (before they were bought by Boss in the nineties). He had some of the first Infinity Kappa series 6x9s. It was the first generation (i think) that Infinity used the EMIT ribbon tweeter in their co-axes. I can't remember much more about his set up.

It was my brother who taught me Ohm's law and wiring in series and parallel. For the most part, I learn on my own and exhaustively reading AS&S over and over and over again, taking note of how others were doing things.

First install was in 1991.  1991 Protege, 2 Orion 12's, Earthquake 400 watt amp, Carver 2X30 amp, Kenwood 622 amp, Clarion Pro Audio Tape deck and 6 disc changer, Kenwood 6042A equalizer, 2 JBL 6.5's, 2 Kenwood 6X9's, Two custom made tweeter pods in the front door. 

The subs were in a 2.0 cubic box and all wiring was done using 4 gauge wiring for power, monster cable RCA's and 16 guage or larger speaker wire. 

my first install was almost as embarrising as my spelling ....

     I was 15 and my grand father left me his turd of an old work truck for my first rig it was a smurf blue 81 ford curier and the would be system was just as ugly, i bought a second hand underdash am fm tape deck i think it was a sparcomatic and i got it out of a wrecked car in the junk yard for 5 bucks and for speakers i went all out i stole the subs out of my dads old radio shack towers ran em right off the deck and i stuck em right to the back wall of the cab( thats what a magnet is for isnt it? lol)  no need for mids or tweets i almost had bass....

                      yes i have improved a little now i but my decs straight from radioshack.....hahahhahahahahaha yeah i suck.

Harmon Kardon cassette deck with the analog dial

2 pyle driver 10" subs

1 Linear Power 952 amplifer

1 PAC crossover

4 Kicker 4" speakers

2 kicker D20 tweeters

1984 toyota corolla. alpine pull out underneath the factory radio.(normally where you'd find the factory pocket.) when i'd take out the alpine, i put the factory pocket back in place so the car looked stock. mtx terminator 12" subs powered by a Legacy 4 channel amp. 6x9's in the doors,( can't remember how i got those in there, not to mention that they fired right into the front seats of the passenger and driver!)  pioneer 6.5's in the rear. power wire was 12 guage and had about 10 strands of wire in it. the box was wired as a "steal all install", simply unplugged the box and took it in for the night.( the days before i knew alarm installs) 

     1981 cutlass supreme 4-door.  sony face off, 25x4 watts, alpine 3.5, pioneer 6x9's w/adaptors, custom built box that was the home of two pioneer 12" subs, 4channel Jensen amp(the one that was blue and yellow) and three 1/2 farad caps from the nearest electronics outlet. also had a Hornet 720t alarm w/ keyless, power trunk, column lock, and "the club"!