My '98 XLT had the stock radio/cassette stereo & I'd tried for awhile to find 1 of the radio/cassette/CD units for it w/o luck. Today I found a stock radio/CD player in a Thrift Store for $1! Compared to the pristine original stereo w/only 13,XXX miles on it, this CD player looked beat up, having conspicuous wear on the buttons & face. However I couldn't resist giving it a try. Against all odds apparently every function works as it should, although at 1st I thought it was DOA. Turned out it wouldn't accept a CD b/c it had a disc in it. Now all I need to find is an el cheapo dead unit w/pretty face & switch face plates.

 

Nice.....it can be done i have transplanted a head unit like that on my dads chevy

 

Its probably stolen, but oh well its your now.

 

What a cheery & improbable thought.

From the CD player's worn appearance & my understanding of mathematical probability IMO its most likely that this OEM unit was replaced w/an aftermarket stereo. The odds of it being "stolen" & donated to a Humane Society Thrift Store are fairly remote, "but oh well its your" opinion.

 

Just saying because i dont know how much of a hurry a person would be to leave a cd in it. Regardless it doesnt matter, good job on finding a deal man.

 

Since BURNSTOUGHFORD enjoyed the "$1 CD Player" so much, he's just going to love this story. Today, just hours after the $1 Thrift Store CD player proved itself, I found a 4th Gen 16GB ipod on the ground in a busy parking lot by I75! One of the ear 'buttons' had been stepped on or run over, but still works. Called Best Buy & asked if there's a way to find the owner via the S/N & they thought I was nutz. The battery went down while I was going thru it to see if I could find any ID. It was playing when I picked it up. Maybe this ipod was also "stolen" & fumbled by the thief? May become a case of Finders Keepers & "oh well its (mine) now" might apply? Not sure what efforts I should make to try & locate the owner? Photos on it were not taken in FL, may very well have been an interstate traveler. Wasn't going to leave it w/some slacker clerk at 1 of the businesses. Is there a Lost & Found on Craigslist? Maybe god wants me to listen to more music? Looked this ipod up on fleabay & somebody won 1 used in VG cond for $168!

 

Thanks for posting another baseless assumption. I'd have absolutely no reason to presume anyone was in "much of a hurry".

In fact the CD was an unlabeled write/rewrite disc that has a nasty spot of corrosion near the edge & may very well been left in the player for years. I fully agree that you just "dont know". Yes, my $1 gamble turned out to be a "good job" if only b/c it pays for a couple of cans of pet food for Humane Society dependants.

 

Take a chill pill man, i wasn't questioning your integrity.

 

Of course you weren't "questioning (my) integrity" just suggesting I "probably" possess "stolen" property. What I possess is a HS receipt for the "$1 CD Player". Its taped to the unit next to the HS price sticker.

Not even by telling me to "Take a chill pill man". I don't possess "Take" or need anything vaguely like "a chill pill man". Not to Q "your integrity" but do you "Take a chill pill" often?

Had sumptuous fresh (gigged myself) Southern flounder & from the field sweet corn for supper. The "$1 CD Player" & iPod Nano 16 GB essentially falling out of the sky rounded out a fairly happy day for me. I was amazed every function worked on the old CD player. Sorry to see that you seem distressed today.

 

What an amazing day that must of been, did you happen to play the lottory as well, that would of made for one heck of a story?

Another way to think about it is good things happen to good people!!

 

I did that before. Removed a stereo and installed a new one then realized I forgot to remove a cd. I was lucky enough to have a power supply and was able to power up the unit on the bench and eject the disc.

Nice find Club Wagon. For a $1, you can't go wrong. I sold a am/fm/cd/cassette unit for $50 last year. Keep looking, they are out there, just try to find one from a truck. The Explorer ones do not have good bass response in the trucks if they have the optional AMP. plug in the rear.

 

I can't make any claim about being "good" but was certainly lucky. Have invested some time trying to find the rightful owner of the $200 iPod. Talked w/Apple & they were no help, wouldn't even tell me what retailer sold it & apparently the owner never registered it according to S/N.

No idea if the owner was "good" or not, but am pretty sure by now they realize losing a 16GB Nano was a bad thing. Looks like I'm stuck w/it & will order accessories so I can recharge & download. Have mixed emotions about Finders Keepers, particularly b/c of the pics & an iPod was very far down on my list of wants/needs. Should have played Lotto, also found a 'Wheat Penny' in change.

 

Just a question here, seeking to make things clear about finding the iPod... did you talk to the local cops about finding the original owner of it? I'm not saying that I have never went the route of "finders keepers", but I'm thinking if I had lost a high-dollar piece of equipment like that, I would have reported it to the local Five-0.


As for the $1 CD player... hey, a receipt for it says you bought it on the up & up in my book. And if ya wanna get rid of the truck's original cassette player for that amount, I know where you can send it.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but you obviously have a lot more faith in your "local Five-O" than I do. I survived a beating during a Home Invasion Robbery, but the police & insurance SOBs were even worse.

In a town w/~50,000 UF students famous for their rating as a Party School & a hard pressed police dept making news for claiming excess OT while diddling local prozzies, I doubt they have the resources to concern themselves w/a lost iPod? Afterall, these tiny devices seem to be very easy to lose. Saw an iPod go down in the ocean, along w/several cell phones.

With BURNSTOUGHFORD's "probably stolen" in mind, I wonder if the iPod's owner might've "reported it to the local Five-O" as stolen? I can only guess how the iPod came to be on the ground where I found it. Last week a local man reported his son kidnapped in order to amp up police activity searching for his stolen motorcycle-don't ask. He got arrested for filing a false report, subsequent investigation revealed another MC in his garage, reported stolen by his ex.

I'm satisfied that I tried to get Apple's help. Had the owner registered the iPod's S/N they could've helped. The owner also could've entered ID in the device, Geek Squad checked, or on it's case, but did not. Good advice is to always register "a high-dollar piece of equipment like that" ASAP.

Sorry, no, don't want to "get rid of" the original cassette stereo for $1.