Blaupunkt Nürnberg 200

[Agalia Valcin]

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The black faceplate/speaker grill is part of the Blaupunkt installation kit specific to the 2002. The kit included an antenna mast and dash-matched control knobs. There are pics in the factory-issue 2002 brochure for reference. Keith's 'my2002tii' site has a pdf of the the 1975 brochure as I recall.

The plastic faceplate/speaker surrounds turn up from time to time on ebay and sometimes on German ebay. Given my experience of trying to assemble the parts to make mine piece-by-piece (read $$$), see if you can find a whole console with radio from a car that is being scrapped or restored with a more modern sound system.

That is the original plate that came on my car. It also includes the speaker below the radio. The plastic mounting tabs tend to break off, so many of them have been changed. My blaupunkt Nurnberg is a 79 vintage but still looks like it belongs there.

Not at MY dealer in East Lansing, Michigan where I purchase my new '74 2002. Both Blaupunkt and Becker were prominently displayed on the counter in the Parts Department. The Blaupunkt units were best for the '02 because they the least expensive of the German radios and they went the extra mile and made the easy installations kits for BMW models.

Ok, sooo. I have also been trying to decide whether to go vintage or modern. I have a hole where the radio is suppose to go. Reading faq, am I correct in assuming that if I go vintage, it will look good, but reception will be poor, plus the vintage are expensive to buy. I can go modern and get good reception, but will not be period correct. My car already has speakers in the back, so does it really make that much difference about period correct?

not period correct but it sounds nice, plays my stash of 50s & 60s songs on cassettes and drives four smallish speakers. But...I have a proper Am/FM Blaupunkt Stereo in a box in the basement that I can swap out in about 30 minutes if I want to go back to original...

I like mine, a Sanyo TachRad AM/FM (looks like a tach) from the early 70s. I made the custom console backmount for it and a 3 1/2 speaker. Its a long cylinder shape behind there. Unfortuantely my car had no stock antenna or radio so the under-dash antenna only gets a couple stations doh!

My '74 has a Becker Europa II stereo with the external amplifier mounted in the top of the glove box compartment. My car originally was bought at Hyde Park Motors in LA in January of 1975 and I have no reason to believe it is not the radio that came with the car. The lines on the face plate have worn off around the knobs.

With the Behr console, the radio is a very tight fit. The Becker has a socket in the back that will accept a din cord with a mini RCA jack so you can plug in your phone or other outside device. I bought a cord from Becker but was unable to plug it in due to the radio being jammed in the console with no room behind it.

When I try to tune the radio, the dial control slips when I turn the knob, making it very difficult to tune. I plan on sending the radio back to Becker USA to correct the problem and also connect an out side jack. Also, when I finally do tune in a station, it will shortly fade out and have to be re-tuned. Hard to live with but I would never replace it with a modern radio..

I've had horrible experiences with Becker head units from the early - late 80s. The FM tuner sections had trouble capturing stations, and we have numerous strong stations in the DC area. They may look great, but functionality is wanting.

I too have a Becker Europa II that came with the car and I find works really well all things considered. Sure it doesn't tune in and hold stations quite like a modern unit but it's all good, I love the simplicity and the push buttons. In fact in many ways it has such a better human interface than my modern BMW unit.

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