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My car has a am radio , its 2 pieces the controls in the dash. The speaker and receiver I think under the dash , been looking for a photo of the lower section mounted.

And your car is . . . ?

A 38 6

Drackap what city in PA? I'm in Pittsburgh.

Hi packard Don, its a 1938 packard six. PGH ultramatic Im In Russell P.A close to Warren.

I don't have an actual photo for a 38 but until someone can provide one, I do have an illustration for a 39 radio showing where the components for the 3 piece custom radio are located. I would almost say that except for the different dash unit the other parts of the radio are all but identical in shape and size those two years and their locations would probably be very similar if not the same.

38 had two factory radios available, the custom which typically had the dash unit, the receiver control box containing all the electronics, and a speaker. New for 38 was the single unit radio consisting of the dash unit and a single receiver control box containing both the electronics and speaker. On both of those radios there was a second or guest speaker that could be bought and installed on the back of the front seat for rear seat passengers to better hear the radio. I believe the guest speaker could also be installed in other locations if desired. There were aftermarket radios available too and some of those have been found in Packards over the years.

The factory radio control box appears to be mounted high on the left side of the firewall roughly behind the speedometer and I expect that location is the same for both radios. The single unit would not need the separate speaker in the front which, on the custom radio, was on the right side of firewall and roughly behind the clock and glovebox. Some but not all models had location stampings visible on the engine side of the firewall where mounting bolts and in the case of the heater, tubing, was designed to come thru.

When I added a factory Deluxe radio to my driver 1940 110, I discovered that the mounting holes were already there for both the radio and the speaker. If the 1938 was similar, it was held on by t-bolts that fit into brackets on either side of the radio box and held to have help to screw on the second side nut (the first can be done by one’s self. Although I still have a speaker housing and even an original EM speaker, I don’t recall how it attached but I seem to recall that it had a pair of studs on the back.

I also have an aftermarket Philco radio but it’s tiny and was held on by a single stud at the back center.