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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 928
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 - 6:23 am: | 
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Hey everyone. I bought off of ebay the other day, a radio that most of you have never heard of. I know it had to have been made by someone for this company. So if any of you might know the answer, please let me know. Ok here it is:
WESTERN AUTO (remember them?) 23 Channel CB Mobile Radio. It looks great, easy to operate, and in hooking it up temporairily, it sounds just very clean. It was still new in the box. The label on the front says Truetone, which was Western Auto's brand if you will on their electronic stuff. Anyway, a small blast from the past. Thanks.
Keith in Atlanta
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Starface
Senior Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 3071
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 - 4:52 pm: |
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Keith post a pic of it in the members photo area please. |
Scrapiron63
Advanced Member
Username: Scrapiron63
Post Number: 888
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 9:57 am: |
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That's a pretty rare bird. Just looked in an old tuneup book and there's a couple dozen Truetones listed. They even had a couple sideband models. |
Lester_elm
Member
Username: Lester_elm
Post Number: 71
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 1:58 pm: |
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The Truetones were made by Midland and were labeled exclusively for Western Auto.
CEF #964 HAM #276
Let's play radio!
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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 929
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 9:19 pm: |
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See, I knew someone would know if I put it on there. I am in St. Louis right now and ran it today in my business travel from Nashville to here. It sounded real good. Starface, I don't have a camera to do that or else I would. But thanks for the info guys.
If anyone else has information on this, please feel free to add to it. Thanks.
Keith in Atlanta
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Press_man
Intermediate Member
Username: Press_man
Post Number: 282
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 9:17 am: |
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Keith;
Took a while but I found a pic of one mounted in my old 71 New Yorker, same as the 40ch Midland it was being replaced by. They were both small and long and had a slope to the front with the ch. display facing up. Can't for the life of me remember the model #'s. Good little radios though. That Truetone was the first mobile I had, it was on an Antenna Specialist trunk mount. I went into Western Auto on SR-60 here in Vero and charged it on my account. Less than a year later the 40 channels came out. The store didn't get the Truetones in on time but they did get a hand full of Midlands so I got the 40 channel replacement radio. That Western Auto was where I got my first NEW bicycle, a 26" Western Flyer. Got my first wrench set there too, Westline SAE open-end, and I still have most of them. I got those wrenches in---------I think late 1963 or early 64. Isn't memory a grand thing, wife says I have forgeters, I say I aint old enough then she asks, "OK, when were you born." She wins! Being born on December 31st messes up the math.
73
Pressman/KC4ZWM
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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 937
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2012 - 8:11 pm: |
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Hi guys. I met a guy here today in Atlanta that used to be a buyer for Western Auto at their corporate offices in Kansas City. I just happened to have this radio hooked up in my truck today. He said that mine was made by cobra. I mentioned about Midland, and he said that yes some were made by Midland. Mine does not have that slope face as mentioned above. But it was kinda neat to meet a buyer from those days that remembered this radio very well.
Now it brings to question, when did Uniden start making cobras for them? Did cobra make their own 23 channel cb's back in the mid 70's before the 40 channel radios came out? Thanks.
Keith in Atlanta
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Press_man
Intermediate Member
Username: Press_man
Post Number: 435
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 7:57 am: |
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Above I said in my November posting that I had the radio in a '71 New Yorker, let me apologize for that. It was a 1971 Chrysler New Port. Same car just not as many comfort features. Thanks Keith for posting, it made me re-read my posting. Guess I had brain gas and didn't proof read!
Pressman/KC4ZWM
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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 939
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 8:47 pm: |
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10-4 Pressman.I understand for sure.
Keith in Atlanta
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Tech291
Moderator
Username: Tech291
Post Number: 540
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 11:33 pm: |
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Keith,
back in the 70's,Cobra's were made by DynaScan.Think Uniden was part of or a subdivision of them also.
Tech291
cef291
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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 940
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 1:43 pm: |
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Hey Tech 291. Ok here we go again:
WOW, I coulda had a V8!  . How could I forget something like that? Thank you for refreshing my brain. While I was running my Lafayette HB 525 mobile, everyone else in Denver back in mid 70's were running the Cobras. I used to tell people that when I got rich, I was going to buy a Cobra.
I think that was just yesterday....where has the time gone?
Keith in Atlanta
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Wildcat__444
New member
Username: Wildcat__444
Post Number: 2
Registered: 8-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 11:31 am: |
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Cobra radios were made by B&K very early on. I have a Cam 88 tube rig from about 1971 that is super cool base station/mobile rig. Though I can't imagine using this in the car...
Not your average overmodulated, PLL controlled, solid-state weak-watt.
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