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[RobGMN Premium Member]

Still have one in a box in my garage somewhere.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

He lives in Cincinnati and I sent the pics to ask him where he put the clips. He made ziplock bags for the 4 doors screws. I have a feeling they are at bottom of each door. I need to connect the battery and roll the windows up so I can run a magnet pole along the front doors.

I'd look on Amazon for cheap clips.

D@mn, the online manual doesn't say the year. I think the American Warrior Centurion X and Taurus X are early 2000's.

I traded a RF Punch 150 and a PG M25 for the Taurus X to put in my wife's 1995 Neon Sport Sedan. I wanted a high current 4 channel amp with built in crossovers back in like 2003 or 4.

I got the Centurion X off ebay for like $50 when installed a system in my 2000 Toyota Solara SEV6 in 2020.

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Those are nice. Hifonics has fall a long way since those days.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

How about these Bazooka amps and subs.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

How about these Bazooka amps and subs.

LOL - remember that gimmicky line up.

 

[BP1Fanatic]

Do you still have that CD? Should rip it to FLAC and share it!
Pretty funny that they are (were?) on BASEline Rd. Could have mistyped it BasSline and the mail would still arrive.

Yes I do! My work and home laptops don't have cd drives.

 

[BP1Fanatic]

I'd look on Amazon for cheap clips.

Those are nice. Hifonics has fall a long way since those days.

He dropped them in the doors.

I don't know why this site is rotating my pics 90*.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Yes I do! My work and home laptops don't have cd drives.

I know - CD drives have gone the way of the dodo.

 

[AnthonyO 10+ year member]

I used to love Bostwick 10's. Run four of them isobaric ported and it got down

 

[Old_Slapper]

I know - CD drives have gone the way of the dodo.

I just had to go down and get an external CD player to load an old file. I also had a bunch of pictures on CD. That's where some of my old install pictures were.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Pioneer was indeed a pioneer in car audio.
First car CD player. I wonder what they sold for?

 

[BP1Fanatic]

I still have this Pioneer deck that I got off Craigslist in the early 2000's. I had the HU in the Ranger and F150. I got the HU because it has 6 x 4 volt RCA outputs.

D@mn, you can't tell the difference between the 2 trucks! The 1st pic is the Ranger.

I had it controlling an iPod Classic that I still have connected to my Onkyo HT-R570. I want say the iPod has over 7,600 tracks on it.

That iPod is the ONLY Apple item I own. And, my job gave it to me for volunteering on a Sunday.

 

[Old_Slapper]

Remember these? I still have one in my garage. Not sure what to do with it. I love it, but I prefer a double-din monitor instead.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Remember these? I still have one in my garage. Not sure what to do with it. I love it, but I prefer a double-din monitor instead.

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I do remember those. I'm gonna have to get around to posting a pic of my p9 combo.

 

[Deiimos]

How about these Bazooka amps and subs.

I am using an old Bazooka 12 that is CHIL capable, but I do not have the chill plug / cooler setup. I got the sub free with a damaged cone several years ago which I repaired. The sub is in my spare car. It's actually the P Miller / No Limit logo sub, but the same thing as the one shown otherwise. The sub works okay for what it is without the cooler, don't expect the world from it, but it works.

The CHIL cooling setup is interesting, it cools the pole piece, which in turn "should" help cool the voice coil since a lot of coil heat gets wicked into the motor structure; I would guess after long periods of music listening at rated power the motor would be a lot cooler with the chil setup, but does that even matter in the end? Not sure, but it was an interesting gimick. I had a car audio magazine a long time ago that reviewed the sub with and without the cooler setup, but forget the results.

Liquid cooling amps could have had a great benefit when Class AB were dominating, if done well, but was never really implemented into car audio amps other than the Bazooka stuff and maybe another brand?

 

[Deiimos]

Pioneer was indeed a pioneer in car audio.
First car CD player. I wonder what they sold for?

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I just looked it up and it appears Crutchfied sold that model for $499 back in 1985 when it was new. That would have been pretty cool back then.

Link to Crutchfield page on some history, scroll down a bit to see that Pioneer CD player.

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-b8IAWjnkTKq/learn/car-stereos-greatest-hits.html

And screenshot from page: