Radio Upgrade vs Addon - Bluetooth

Background:
It appears I've crossed the threshold and I don't want to go back.
I've grown accustomed to have my songs on my phone play on car speakers.
I have a 79 LeBaron with an 8-track, a 87 Fifth Avenue with with oem radio, a 2000 Chevy Truck with a radio, disc player & cassette tape player.

Problem:
I want to play my phone through the radio OR add some device so I could play my phone through the device which would be connected to the radio.

Help Needed:
I'm clueless on solutions. I don't need a $300 solution. I don't really want to remove the old radio and put a new radio in since I live so far out in the country I don't get any stations anyway (well, any other than spanish & church revival). Upgrading the radio to get more stations really serves no purpose; however, upgrading/changing to use the speakers or perhaps to have a second set of speakers to use?? There's some solution out there, but I don't know where to begin and what 'gotchas' I need to be aware of.

I'm thinking I'll use the same solution in each vehicle; but I'm not expecting to have to remove and install the same hardware between the vehicles. Once I have a solution for one vehicle, I'll just purchase everything again for the 2nd and 3rd vehicle.

Suggestions are welcome.

JW

$50 Pioneer deck with Blue Tooth and get the pigtail adapter. No CD. This is what I did with mine. Modern electronics sound a lot nicer too.

There are Bluetooth radio units you plug into the cigar lighter and they send whatever you send via Bluetooth to your old radio on FM.

Don't have a source at hand, but that should be cheap and easily transferable between cars.

Something like this

The old cassette tape aux input

If radios work, I like the Bluetooth radio transmitters on the cheap. There’s small ones that fit real nice in the ashtray and are more or less out of sight and out of mind. Will automatically pair to your phone after initial set up and give you the “get in and go feel” without have to plug anything in or set it up each ride. Best of all, no modifications and little to no work to install

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Check out these Scosche Bluetooth radio transmitters:


Basically the way these work is that you pair them up with your phone and on the radio itself you tune in to a specific FM frequency your radio transmitter broadcasts...easy!!!

Will that sound like a Dolby pro theatre...??? Nope...for sure it won't, but it is probably the next best thing to actually pulling your factory radio and having it upgraded by literally including that sort of Bluetooth transmitter into the body of the radio (there are shops out there that do this work...but boy, the prices I've seen make my head spin).

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Oh, I almost forgot: some of these will also enable the phone voice call playback functionality, in other words: if a phone call comes in on your mobile as you are listening to your tunes streaming this thing gives you the option to switch over to that incoming call and chat away...not that I recommend doing that full time while driving, but sometimes you just want to answer and let that other person know that you'll call them back.

I also use one of those cheap transmitters.
I was never big into replacing the radio the furthest I went was tape/cd from the 90s which is a bolt in.

does the Fifth Avenue have a tape deck? can use a cassette adaptor. these come in either aux (plug into your phone like headphones) or bluetooth options. you can also can bluetooth adaptors that plug into the cig lighter though i've noticed the audio quality sometimes suffers and i've even had interference from radio towers when using a bluetooth adaptor.

things should be no more than $20. i've seen some guys put whole tablets in these. looks kind or ridiculous imo but it's an option.

i personally use a bluetooth cassette in a 90s Chrysler radio. they plug right into an M. anyone here know if any Chrylser radios had a built in Aux that plug right in? i do have a CD one idk what to do with.

M_Body_Coupe said:

Check out these Scosche Bluetooth radio transmitters:

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Basically the way these work is that you pair them up with your phone and on the radio itself you tune in to a specific FM frequency your radio transmitter broadcasts...easy!!!

Will that sound like a Dolby pro theatre...??? Nope...for sure it won't, but it is probably the next best thing to actually pulling your factory radio and having it upgraded by literally including that sort of Bluetooth transmitter into the body of the radio (there are shops out there that do this work...but boy, the prices I've seen make my head spin).

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Oh, I almost forgot: some of these will also enable the phone voice call playback functionality, in other words: if a phone call comes in on your mobile as you are listening to your tunes streaming this thing gives you the option to switch over to that incoming call and chat away...not that I recommend doing that full time while driving, but sometimes you just want to answer and let that other person know that you'll call them back.

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This deserves more research from me.
JW

SonOfaTomP said:

does the Fifth Avenue have a tape deck? can use a cassette adaptor. these come in either aux (plug into your phone like headphones) or bluetooth options. you can also can bluetooth adaptors that plug into the cig lighter though i've noticed the audio quality sometimes suffers and i've even had interference from radio towers when using a bluetooth adaptor.

things should be no more than $20. i've seen some guys put whole tablets in these. looks kind or ridiculous imo but it's an option.

i personally use a bluetooth cassette in a 90s Chrysler radio. they plug right into an M. anyone here know if any Chrylser radios had a built in Aux that plug right in? i do have a CD one idk what to do with.

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No tape deck.

But I don't mind having something separate and just adding a plug pigtail for it. Perhaps having it sit on the hump on the floor. I agree that I don't want a flatscreen to interact with while I'm driving. Playing it over the radio FM frequency is fine since that's where I would normally hear the radio and until I get new gaskets in the door there is way too much ambient noise for me to worry about tunes over a radio.

JW

Thanks for the options.... I'll spend some time researching options and pull the trigger once I have a direction.
JW