Beautiful Becker Europa 2 Radio - My Stupid Questions Options

[friethmiller]

Bought this from @914Sixer 4 years ago and I'm thinking about installing it in the LE. I'm sure it's not the exact radio for an LE but it might be the one I go with for now. Question: what are all these pieces, I forget. The metal tabs look like hanger-type hardware. How does it install? I'm wondering if I'm missing anything. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) What about these weird looking connections? Speaker inputs I assume. Is this other wire a ground? Sorry, not a radio expert. TIA. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[scallyk9]

I have the exact same Becker installed in my restored LE (Bumblebee) and it is period correct and would have been available from your local Porsche dealer in 1974. All radios were dealer installed and you chose from a rack. As I recall, Beckers on top, some Blaupunkts below them, and a Motorola or two on the bottom. The Becker Mexico FM Cassette deck was the most expensive.

A knowledgeable PCA Concours judge once told me that I had the Mercedes version with the chrome ring knobs and I should have plain black soft-touch knobs in a vintage Porsche, but a photo of the chrome ring version is in Dr. B. Johnson's 914 "A Restorer's Guide to Authenticity III" as a dealer option or owner installed.

[Superhawk996]

A knowledgeable PCA Concours judge once told me that I had the Mercedes version with the chrome ring knobs and I should have plain black soft-touch knobs in a vintage Porsche, but a photo of the chrome ring version is in Dr. B. Johnson's 914 "A Restorer's Guide to Authenticity III" as a dealer option or owner installed.

Funny how that works.

A bunch of snobs that never wanted to acknowledge the 914 as a Porsche are now suddenly experts on 914’s.
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