1956 Wonderbar

[Dan P.]

Is the 1956 Wonder bar radio the same as A pasenger car .

[Gary C.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

Dan, Corvette radios power supply shielded leads exits the passenger side of the radio and the passenger car exit on top. Don't have any knowledge on passenger car Wonderbars other than that. Gary....

[Bruce B.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

Dan,
I believe that the "wing knobs" which are behind the tuning and volume knobs are black on passenger cars and chrome on Corvettes.

[Dan P.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

Dan, Corvette radios power supply shielded leads exits the passenger side of the radio and the passenger car exit on top. Don't have any knowledge on passenger car Wonderbars other than that. Gary....

Thanks . I could not remeber .

[Mike M.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

the speaker assemblies differ considerably. mike

[Dan P.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

Did all th 56 and 57 have wonderbars.Iif they had radio's

[Mike M.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

if the 56 or 57 Corvette was ordered with a radio, it got a wonderbar. (unlike the 55 and 56 chevy pass cars which could be ordered with several different type radios.) mike

[Pierre J.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

the speaker assemblies differ considerably. mike

Mike,
How is the speaker assembly different?
I have the correct radio for my '56 and was thinking of getting a speaker from a full size chev. How much trouble would I be getting into to install this speaker?

Thanks,
Pierre

[Mike M.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

the pass car speaker assemblys are configured different than the vettes. they are much larger than the vette and to install a pass car speaker assembly in a vette would require butchering the dash in the vette. basically the pass car is a rectanglar shape whereas the vette is basically round and smaller. the non-interchangabilty expalains why the complete vette radios(with correct speaker) fetch 2K and upwards while the shoebox radios go for about 1/4 of that. mike

[Jerry R.]

Re: 1956 Wonderbar

Pierre, additionally the Corvette high voltage supply and amplifier/speaker uses transistors and the regular car supply uses a pair of tubes for the amplifier and a vibrator and gas rectifier to develop the high voltage. Pretty much first generation transistor application in the Vette.