29-10-2015, 04:56 PM
(24-10-2015, 09:03 AM)Murphyv310 Wrote: Hi Sparky.
Yes it's all about gone now. I started in 1970 and did about 20 years worth of audio culminating with minidisc with Sony and winning the UK Sony service competition in 1997 and going on to 4th in Milan. I advertise vintage car radios repairs and have done so for about 15 years now but recently they have tailed off, in the main due to retro copies now coming in from China with mp3, FM and Bluetooth.
From my records so far this year I'd be lucky to have made £350 clear profit.
Maybe you need to try a totally new market? There could be a demand in other countries for genuine vintage car radios such as the ones you restored. I'd imagine there would be interest in Russia or possibly America? For example, in some ways, I myself find American ACDC Bakelite radios more exotic than the home-based sets I can get over here. I have a friend in North Carolina and tried before to twist her arm a bit to see if she can get me some vintage American sets. Some of these are called "hot chassis radios" as you'll have heard elsewhere.
