Old School Car Audio Installs Compilation - Volume 2 

Keep up the old school installs BigDWiz! I was a young teenage basshead in the 90's that couldn't wait till the next issue of Autosound&Security and Car Audio and Electronics magazine would come out so I can see trick installs like these. I like and appreciate your work my-man.

I love and appreciate you sooooo damn much for posting this content, dude. Unfortunately, I was born in '89, but my brother was born in '77 and is the one I was introduced to the car audio world through. I remember raiding his stashes of Car Audio, Can Stereo Review, Auto Sound & Security, Mini Truckin, and Lowrider magazines. I'd absolutely DROOL over the Cerwin Vega Strokers and all those cleanly displayed processors and PPI Art amps... And seeing the things Alma Gates was doing, I still can't wrap my head around. I envy you and everyone else who was there in the mix participating in the unfolding of what car audio is today. So much respect to the above you, your channel, and everyone else who hasn't let mobile audio die out

Loved the look of the older Alpine head units!!!

The Z28 was dope!

God I wish I still had all the old pics of installs from 1988 to 1996...lost in a fire...but thanks big d for the memories. Love it

I miss that old Orion stuff

So freaking cool. The older installs looked way better and more finished then the ones today.

Fosgate, Alpine and Orion was everywhere in mid 90's in Spokane.. I ran mtx and fultron amps

Worked in car audio all my life . I remember A US Amp rep demo' ing an amp that he made the outputs arc against each other and it did not shut down. Or the Alpine cassette changer? Alma Gates brought in her Bronco for a tune up before they took it to DB Drags . Her team did it but we got to look at it close up. This thing was positively insane! A smaller RF amp was driving the preamps for signal. Crazy times , indeed. Or David " the Fishman" Rivera?

I’m 54 now, I was obsessed with car audio, I got my first job at Reggies Stereo in West Hollywood in 1988, went on to work with other higher end shops and finally owned my own shop in San Gabriel Vallley , had to close due to Gulf War I’m now a State Certified Electrician and other Electricians always ask why my panels are always flawless and detailed I’ll explain my roots in Car Audio I sure miss competing in the IASCA Nationals , my comp car was a 89 escort GT with 4 10 inch redline subs and 3 Orion subs total of 23 speakers 2 extra batteries an a custom high output alternator hitting 140dbs piped my side rear window out . thanks for posting this videos gave me goosebumps.

I got into car audio at the peak of these old school builds, have seen a couple of the vehicles you featured here. Lived in KC at the time and had a blast at Bartle Hall during the USAC Championships year over year. Love it!

I loved the Camaro with the plexiglass. So clean.

I was an old school stereo guy. Man we had a lot of fun doing these installs and going to sound competitions with them and just hanging out together down at the local audio shops helping newbies and talking shop. And of course cruising...you can't forget that. I am working on an old school style install right now (it's the only way I know how to do it) on my old 1986 Chevy van, doing up a system with a pair of JL amps, JL Audio speakers and subs, and an AudioControl DSP. I am getting excited for spring when I roll it out on the streets.

I miss American made car audio companies.

The way that little girl's face lit up is how I feel when I see awesome installs like these. Such beautiful work and its all functional, the best combo there is! I wish I was the craftsman these guys were

So funny to see Jake Cali old installs. We use to be good friends and I would hangout by his shop with that van.

Those old solobarics bring back good memories! The red laser car was the coolest install I’ve seen! Amazing work!

Those old Orion XTR’s were some of the best ever made! Didn’t need a ton of power to pound but could take some if you had it! I miss my blue stripes in a bandpass!!!

I LOVE THE 90'S😎

man when i think of old school i remember people with walls of 6x9's haha back in 82-84,i never saw anything this nice back in the day,i had four 12's in 89 they were under powered M&M's haha with you guessed it a alpine,always the pretty green alpine those were good times my friend

In the mid-late '90s in my home town (N. Bay Area) an older couple in their late 50s had their kid who was established for audio, built them a slammed mini truck, no hydraulics, but had two Cerwin Vega Stroker 15s. Talk about tremendous bass.

Precision power amps were sick back in the days

I'm lovin' these Old School Audio Installs Comp's!!! Keep up the Great Work!

Yeah, the good old 90's, when i started.

Great video! I remember competing 88' to 90' and my goals for install with my friends is, every thing invisible to the eye's! But still achieve the best sound possible (spl) and flat on the analyzer screen. Good old day's.

I miss those round kicker solo baric subs😪. They got so loud!! Had 2 15’s

It was hard getting good bass out of Camaro"s with sealed boxes

Ah the good old days of a Saturday afternoon with your fingers all sticky with spray adhesive and grey trunk carpet!!!! The smell of Bondo in your ride......

Love old school setups. but where is all the Zapco or Eclipse stuff.

OMG I remember the Rockford van in the opening credits. That was one of the first SPL vehicles I ever heard.

Always some nice old school set ups

Pictures coming soon of my 1986 Mercury Cougar 5.0 with all Soundstream amps and subs! 2, 10.0s with 4 SPL 15s!

Nice trip down memory lane👌

Good time i installed from 88 to 90 for iasca competition events, boy i miss those days!

We need more old school builds 😭

You can’t beat this era. I remember in Houston going to thunder on wheels.

Man those CRX Honda’s seem to create SPL on there own!!! That hatchback design was always a killer in competition!! The ole Astro Van was the speaker box on wheels as well!! I think every serious sound shop had one for SPL in 1998!!!

People don't get it. Efficiency with speakers and good amps will compete and/or blow away todays generation of subs that will handle 1,000,000 watts but are 10db/1watt1meter.

Man I had to come wayyyy back to watch this brother so dope how far we have come... but the old school stuff was and still is so dope

could watch this all day. just gained employment. lookin to get the dust off my dd system. and hook up the newly added oldschool alpine eq w/ BBE processing. need to find an installer that can trust to work on my new used virgin car. dont want a repeat of the last ride to happen. thanks D. another 20k+ view video. people love oldschool car audio, dont they

Over the top awesome motorizations on that red hatch. What a sweet sleeper.

Man I love these old vids and pics. Really takes me back. Gosh I miss those days...

Those cameros are dope!!!!!!

I’m preparing a system with old school Rockford Fosgate 25 to life amplifiers. I’ll submit pics as soon as it’s done!!! I’ve had these amps for 10+ years and can’t wait to hear how they perform!

the local shop here . had 12 kicker 18" with a ss1000 on each. with a door full of mids & highs. it was hitting 157+ man was it hard to breath in that thing. I think they low passed at about 50Hz. I did a install in a crx. 4 15" sub's. in a sealed box. with JL 15" and 250w ea. nice video. makes me wish I had a time machine!

I told you about the transformer from paul. That is sick. I knew that you would love it.

This makes me wanna do an old school install!

Now PAUL makes motorized compartments for the CARTELS🤣🤣🤣

Old ppi art series amps with 2 12 inch suoundstream rubicons

Miss that era. Love the 90s

AHHH MORE MEMORIES😮👍👍👍Was born and raised in Daytona beach,fla,graduated in the 90's,went to many if not all Soundcrafters Spring Break Nationals,this is very cool material,THX BIG D!!!KNOCKED IT OUT DA PARK AS USUAL😊

I wish i had some video of my Explorer system from the 90's, but all i have are a few old photo's. Here's a run down of my setup: Dual Kenwood HU's (cassette & CD) wired w/ a "Smart Switch" / (2) JL 12W4's in a "super thick" MDF Ported Box w/ Precision Power PC2150 Sub Amp & Q-Bass Knob / (4) 5"x7" Infinity Kappa's 1/ea. door w/ Kenwood 100Wx4 Amp / (2) Kicker ND-25 Tweeters w/ Kenwood 100Wx2 Amp / US Amps 3-Way Crossover. "0" gauge wire from alternator to the rear of truck & Monster Cable RCA's.

So happy to see Orion coming back super strong in today's age.

You should also review oldschool head units. I haven't seen anyone do anything like that.

WOW! Brings back so many memories. 1994 was the first build I helped do in a friend’s Civic Si. Alpine CD Deck. Boston Acoustic components, three 15” JL Audio DVC Subwoofers. Three PPI 600.2 amps and 300.2. 1995 was my first build in a 88 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe. Blaupunkt Head unit, Boston Acoustic 6.5 components door and dash, rear seat removed to fit a box with six separate enclosures. Four 8” Thiele Subwoofers, Two Cerwin Vega 15” Subwoofers. Active Crossover running Alpine 2channel 200 watt, Kenwood 4 Channel 400 watt, and Profile California AP2000. All the pics I had were destroyed in a flood. I wish I had even one, or a video. We weren’t so worried about taking pictures and recording everything back then. Hey, totally random can you maybe test the Nakamichi NGTD1200.1 and/or NGTA7404 amps. They seem pretty legit. Nice sized fuses the the Class D Monoblock has 3x40A and Class A/B 4/3/2 Channel has 2x25A. They’re not claiming anything that doesn’t seem reasonable either. I just know that Nakamichi is not the OG Nakamichi we remember from the 80’s and 90’s and has been bought out by a Chinese company. Having said that, I’ve used several of the new Nakamichi headphones and was pretty impressed with the sound quality. Anyway love the channel!!

Love those 2nts. I have 11 of the twelve and 4 of the 15s just waiting.

Iam 4 years late for this party but super cool old cars that brought back some crazy cool old memories

Damn that transformer build was probably one of the best I've seen ever.

The 2nt's were and are my favorite!

BACK IN THE DAT ORION WAS PREMIUM NOW DAYS EVERYONE IS ABOUT THE "SMD BLING"

I miss all this old amazing build amps

So cool man. Wish I still had my equipment from back then. 2 Dsm series 200x2s on 4 punch 12s in a mustang 5.0 hatchback. Everybody loved riding with me!

These are some of my favorite videos

Awesome video bro! Love the old school audio installs.

Man, I have seen a few of those Concept 97's pop up on ebay. They never sell cheap. I had an autographed PPI PC2350 that was in Alma Gates' Bronco. These are some nice looking set ups. It's too bad there aren't very many installs like this anymore!

I miss the the 80’s and 90’s 😞

Iroc set up was bada$$$!!!

The think I saw the van with all the HCCA amps at a show but don’t remember where maybe Cali or Daytona Beach. Some IASCA event.

I miss seeing crazy audio setups in cars, people nowadays aren't as creative with modifying their cars like back in the day

I miss my funky pups on my urban audio amp 💪🏽 jk I def appreciate these types of videos ... priceless

Thank you Big D Wiz. There was a mysterious magic about those 1990's custom stereo builds. Back then it was fascinating looking at a lowered mini truck bumping down the block playing DJ Magic Mike shaking windows at the school. Everyone was in class looking out the window. It was impressive the way it felt and sounded. No thanks to Class D amps it doesn't sound like it used to. Class AB bass sounds omni directional...Class D ruined the magic because it's directional I can always tell where the source of the bass is originating. Half of the fun back then was not knowing where the bass was coming from because it sounded like it was coming from everywhere.

Do custom installs nowadays still use linear actuators? That was a cool feature guys would use to set their system apart from everyone else.

I had that 3 disk alpine unit and that clarion that was hidden behind the 2 knob they both were passive!

that brought back some good memories. thanks

That kid near the end is me every day.

Great video I like the thought behind the old school set ups.

Man I miss those days!!

Some of the same vehicles and same equipment I had back in the day- the red Mazda, the Nissan Hardbody, the PA-1, OEQ-1, and Pioneer 6 disc changer controller...

Why am I just now seeing this!!! Awesome please do moooore!!!

the ending 9 JL 18's doing the hair trick. insane!

Great video, and who says the old systems didn’t have great power and blow wind like the new systems of today? I never got into audio back in the day, wasn’t sober, fast forward I’m In forty’s now and have a full ab system I just need to install it with my Kenwood head unit.

The good old days

That Camaro was my favorite my set up now is almost just like it.

To the old school.🍻

What the shit yo? 3x VLX-400's? Somebody tell me he didn't drop the ohms very low on those or something. I can't fathom w6s(yea i know they were the shit back in the day) being able to handle 3 of those. The old school w6's were DVC's as well weren't they? That had to cost an absolute fortune to build. I've seen 1 of those amps power 16 american bass (cant remember if VFL's were out then) 15s. He later switched to PPI amps and blew the old build away,but damn what a monster build in the last vehicle shown. I always appreciate these types of vids BIGD. Thanks a lot! Edit: always funny to see those tiny magnets on subs back in the day. I can remember when 30-40oz magnets were considered "big"

man i love the look of the old Orion & jl subs.

God I want another set of those red and grey round solobarics

They were doing it big back them. Boy, have times changed. I wonder what did those guys do with those old builds. Are they still in traffic, locked up in a garage, or parted out the equipment to other car builds. Would be nice to do a 20 year follow up lol

the review is good *but we want to hear them in action!*

Very clean installs! I like loud and proud systems but they need to be clean installs to have the whole package.

When we started they did not have amps. We had 6 by 9. They did not make CD players for cars. But we still hit hard by our standers back the.

omg the honda crx was my joy car man

Need more of these posts bro, old school car audio company builds would be cool too

Thanks for the video. I remember those and got a little nostalgic.

Those were the days. Nissan Hardbody’s were the shiz.

That VW doe!! Still bad ass by todays standards 😎

Old soundstream amps was the shit

Awesome stuff, but that van moves serious air, up there with today's giant amps and super woofers!

I remember that 3 disc Alpine! The magazine (which holds the discs) would pop out partially then back in again during the each cd change.

Shaft radio motorized was pimpin