[Oldie Goldie]

463ron, I am embarrassed to say this but the truth is the truth.
I went my entire life up until 38 ( I'm 39 now) without knowing the existence of the boxy car radios Buick used in the 40s and 50s.
Especially the mid 40s to 1952 there was a design they used that was box shaped, with an 8" speaker, and it was as close to a table radio "shape" a car radio ever was.
Id only known the wedge shaped ones and the small box ones like we have today. But the Buick ones, you just plop it down on a table, hook up an antenna, and some beefy source of 6v and start tuning!

I don't remember WHY I looked up the first Buick 980868 radio on eBay, or bought four of them. But I did.
And I'm told they were some of the best sounding most sensitive and selective AM radios ever made.
I also have two 12v 1955 Buicks.
I bought one in crappy condition to steal the 12v vibrator and transformer out of to make a 12v 980868 but when I got it, it was in great shape, the gore I saw on the eBay pics was nothing. Than I got another. Same problem. I don't have the heart to eff them up for some parts.
Solid heavy welding made suckers.
I paid $100 to my door each coming from across the US to me.

I think I found this habit when I was making a collection of vibrator electronics.
I have a vibrator florescent tube, a vibrator 150w inverter, and I had to have a vibrator radio.