Chinese Blaupunkt

Where's the door for inserting cassettes?  Shame you can't get a gold (match PORSCHE script) or brushed silver face or trim.

I must be an ancient audio-phile!  I still have a 6 CD changer in my 4Runner - even a single CD in my Miata.  Not sure they even still work.  In FL heat, I bet the CDs are warped!

Years ago my dad was given a failed Becker Europa (?) - it still had tubes and a remote amplifier.  It had multiple FM, AM, SW, Weather, and Marine bands.  Guess it was from a Mercedes.  He fixed it and I installed it in my MGC. Not sure I received much on some of the buttons though.

When I had my BMW 2000 M Roadster it had the original cassette deck. So I bought these chargeable cassettes which would receive Bluetooth signal. They worked great. Pretty cool.
These days I just want wireless Bluetooth and hands free phone. And of course decent sound. We’ll see.

I always liked the push button AM-FM-SW  Blaupunkt radios in my VWs ,

most also were able to be changed from 6v to 12v .

Cool to listen to Short Wave BBC or Radio Australia ,

I put a Blaupunkt in my Mustang in 1976. It had a cassette deck with a rotating head so I never had to flip the tape to listen to the other side. It would keep playing the same cassette until you ejected it. Very cool.

I like the RetroSound in these retro cars. If a good amp makes up for it, I'll take the form AND function personally.

Or a completely hidden stereo.

Or no stereo ....

Hidden stereo is ideal. But I’m stuck with this.

Take that thing out, cover the hole with a dash-plate, and go with a hidden amplifier.

If it were me, I'd have somebody make a nice billet aluminum plate and put some gauges in it -- oil pressure, CHT, and voltage would give you everything you could ever want or need.