car tunes

i've installed or had installed after-market sound in every single one of the automobiles i have ever owned, starting with my first (a 1970 chevy chevelle malibu originally with just the am radio that my grandparents originally ordered to go with the blackwall tires and roll-down windows before i took possession handed-me-down from my father and tossed in an fm stereo cassette deck, coax speakers in the front doors and triax in the rear deck, with a modest 25w per channel amp to give it some go) and continuing right up through my latest ride, which is a nice inconspicuous low mileage sedan whose factory-installed "premium" sound system was such a piece of crap that for over a week i preferred to drive around in silence rather than put up with its muddy annoyance even for a minute. (look up "monsoon sound system review" on google if you think i'm kidding).

now, mind you, i can't yet review the latest setup, because i don't take possession of it until tomorrow morning, but believe you me when i tell you that you're going to be able to hear me coming--and those hip-hoppers with their nothing-but-bass BUUSZH BUUSZH BUUSZH rattling theirs and everyone else's windows are going to be able to hear it, too. in fact, for no charge, and on behalf of everybody who is old enough to remember stereo wars from their college dorms, and feels that fighting fire with fire is the way to go, i'm looking forward to giving those one-note-wonders something to listen to at the traffic lights this summer. maybe a little sinatra with nelson riddle and his orchestra on eleven for the classicists... maybe a little MC5 kicking out the jams for me... but it's going to be CLEAN sound, with every note and instrument and voice in clear timbre, like you only get when you (or you have someone) do it right.

there's enough power in this baby to light up an entire block. and that's the way i have always wanted to roll.