I'm looking to get my Z-28 as stock as possible. I'm very close, not much has been changed, was repainted 20 years ago. Now I'm looking for a radio. If anyone has one they wish to sell I might be interested. Also if anyone has a pic of the original radio, it would help in my search. The original radio is long gone...........

Here she is 58,500 miles.

 

nice Z. I see the old CAMARO, CAMARO, CAMARO fabric inside. You will have to see what radio it came with by looking at the RPO codes if available. YE1 YE2 or YE4 or YF1 are the choices unless you have another code that is U63. I have some pictures if needed I believe

 

Thanks. She's my baby, had her for 21 years now. Can't find the RPO codes anywhere. Not in the glove box or the compartment in the rear hatch. Could they be anywhere else?
And yes it has that is the funky Camaro interior.

 

Have you ever taken off the bra? just curious as i heard that it will cause paint fading over time?

 

I had her painted back in 1992. Soon after that the paint on the nose started to crack. So I put the bra on her to cover all the cracking.
Actually thinking about having her stripped down and painted again in the next couple years.

 

your RPO codes should be in the center console. but if not, i've seen them in the back storage compartment too (the one in the hatch area). you have a GORGEOUS Z28! i love that interior, always have. is it a Crossfire car? looks like i see that under the Z28 emblem inside on the dash...or is that just the 5.0 Liter HO badge? as for the radios, you may be able to find one if you go to shops that repair radios...some of them sell factory type radios. good luck! glad to see someone working to keep one of these beauties original!

edit, this picture has an original radio in it, from a 1983 Motor Trend comparo...


this one is dated as a 1990 UM7 radio, but it's the same one that would be in your 1983 i'm fairly certain.

 

Thanks for the compliments, Yep, she's a Crossfire 305: I looked in both places you mention and can't find the codes. Thank you for that pic, that radio does look familiar. But it has been 21 years since the original was replaced.
Odd to think about it, I'm 42 years old, bought her when I was 21, spent half my life with this car..............LOL.

 

Older pic taken before I put the original rims back on her. (Actually had to find a set of '83 rims, mine were stolen out of my moms garage a long time ago.)

 

That is amazing man! Really nice car, i hope to keep mine that long i'm 23 atm had the rs since i was 18 2nd owner. Really cool to see an original owner of a well maintained ride for that long of time.

 

i have a original radio from an 86 iroc id be willing to part with pm me

 

Thanks for the offer. I gotta find out what exactly came with mine before I buy anything.

 

Whatever ya do keep that car and take care of her. I'm actually not the original owner. The person that bought it only had it alittle over a year before they sold it. The person I bought it from had it about 6 years, but only drove it in the summer back and forth to work a few miles. I got it in '91 with 32,000 miles on it. In 21 years I've put 26,000 on it.

 

alrite just let me kno if u ever want it

 

I seem to remember a source that you could give them your VIN and they'd give you your RPO codes but I can't remember who...have You tried calling GM with your VIN and see what They can tell you? I mean, I know years back I was restoring a 78 Monte Carlo and I gave them the info and they sent me an "info pack" on the car with all kinds of cool stuff in it...

 

Actually I called them today. They offer a copy of the build sheet for $50. It's something I'll do down the road. I just can't justify spending $50 on a piece of paper right now.

 

yea I can understand that bud...well at least its available!

 

Hey coyote, this is what I was given by another TGOer. These show some of the older radios. I'm thinking with the way your car was optioned that it had the upper grade cassette player, maybe the bottom left one. Have fun with the search. The camaro white book has a rundown on the percentages of camaros with the certain radio models if interested.

 

I actually have the original radio from my '83Z.....been sitting on a shelf for years. I'll have to take a pic. Not positive if it works or not...never tried it. I think it has a cassette player.

 

Thanks Dman, that will help.

I think you are correct about the options on my Z-28. It seems it had alot of the higher end options. So it makes sense it would have the higher end radio/cassette.
Anyone have part numbers for these? Ones I have found are:

Electrically Tuned Cassette Recorder 998040 Part No. 16023010
ETRCassette with Seek and Scan - 997606 - Part No. 16008040
ETRCassette Signal seeker, with 5-ban equalizer - 998041 - Part No. 16028451

This is a much bigger PITA then I thought it would be, I mean damn, its just a radio..............LOL

 

pic please!! please!!! And part number if its on it..........

 

the layout of the radio is the same as the close up pic but the preset buttons stick out further you pull on them to set the preset you want.

 

Allright...It's dusty and dirty since it's been on the garage shelf for 8 years...and I stand corrected, no cassette. Just AM/FM. My car is one of the early L69 HO models in '83. Pic of front and back. Not much to look at...oddly, it looks a lot like what screaminformula posted, yet a little different on the bottom. I have a dash plate that's still on the car that says "Extended Range" whatever that means. Oh, and the labels are long gone so I couldn't find a part#...

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LOL nothing odd about it looking close to the same. GM didn't really change their radios much over the course of third gen production...that's why I posted the pic I did knowing that one Of the pics was NOT an '83.

 

Here's mine from my 84 Z28. I hope it helps.

 

I think he's right on. That's the big difference I see between the pics of the '83 radio vs the '84's. The faceplates are also different between the two (lower portion)...

 

My '83 Berlinetta came with an in-dash factory tape deck that had only one button for cassette operation. Push the button to the left for rewind, to the right for fast-forward, and push it in for eject. I'm positive it was a factory radio, as everything on the car was original when I got it in '89. It cassette features were quite different than the tape deck I have in my '87, and I have never seen another tape deck like it. I just saw it a year or two ago in my parents garage, but I think I threw it away.

 

I found a radio that pretty well matched what you guys suggested. I don't think its an exact match, but its damn close. Now all I gotta do is get the proper adapters. My wiring harness has been hacked up a bit to fit a newer radio, so now I gotta undo some of the hack job.
Thanks for all the help guys, I really appreciate it.

 

sweet bud! i love seeing cars kept (or remade) original sometimes...

 

i have an 83z with CFI and im pretty sure most of the options as yours (dont know for certain though), heres the radio that mine came with.

 

The one I found doesn't have the cassette player but otherwise is pretty close.