The audio setup that came with Josie seemed to be a throw in in place of a system. There are bits and pieces of sound system that was much higher in quality. I’ve found a short piece of 4 AWG cable in the trunk that presumably went to the battery. There are also sounds deadening pads lined in the trunk to probably get rid of bass/metal vibration. A set of 4″ JVC speakers were put in the back and barely fit. I can see the hole was cut out for either a 6×9 or a 5.25 hardware. Another sign of downgrading.

The first step was to identify the hardware I already have. That starts off with the Stereo deck made my Custom Auto Sounds. This deck is designed to look like an older era radio down to the knobs and push button presets. It has modern features we take for granted nowadays such as search, memory and AUX input. One good point is the deck has pre-amplifier outputs, two sets. I can drive two separate amplifiers one for the sub-woofer and the other for the rest of the speakers. Here’s the online manual location here.

So far I’ve pulled the deck out and cleaned up some of the wiring I’ve identified as not being used. This will help out identifying all the wires. This car is over 50 years old and different times wiring was added for some purpose. You can’t just yank out wires you may end up breaking a connection to some car function like wipers, courtesy lights, power windows etc.