{"id":2024,"date":"2018-11-26T06:48:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2018-11-26T06:48:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T14:48:27","slug":"dressed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2018\/11\/26\/dressed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My intention this afternoon was to take 20 minutes to replace the ancient 1970&#8217;s era speaker under Peer Pressure&#8217;s dash with a new one. A few weeks ago I some cursory research on the interwebs and someone claimed the stock speaker was 4&#215;10&#8243;, so I ordered an inexpensive replacement online. Today I pulled the old one out, and it turns out I was wrong (a quick trip into the garage to look over the two spare dashboards I have would have confirmed this): it&#8217;s 4&#215;8&#8243;, a very unconventional size for a speaker. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crutchfield.com\/p_068R48N\/RetroSound-R-48N.html\">RetroSound has replacements<\/a> for $100+, which is more than I care to spend, or there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralking.com\/4-x8-spkr-with-grille?utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_campaign=shopping&amp;utm_content=70530108&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiArenfBRCoARIsAFc1FqcnRB66nutBBihAUMjXcst9qcfwV-t62BDS9elyBZY4WBJyPDmEM8IaAkJyEALw_wcB\">some cheaper alternatives which are intriguing<\/a> (and, strangely, listed as OEM replacements for Case\/IH equipment). For now, I&#8217;ll return the new one this week and come up with another plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, just to prove I am not a complete philistine, I pulled the fiberglas inserts down out of the garage attic and stuffed them into the Scout this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6072_1.jpg?resize=1170%2C878\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6072_1.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6072_1.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6072_1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6072_1.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My intention this afternoon was to take 20 minutes to replace the ancient 1970&#8217;s era speaker under Peer Pressure&#8217;s dash with a new one. A few weeks ago I some cursory research on the interwebs and someone claimed the stock speaker was 4&#215;10&#8243;, so I ordered an inexpensive replacement online. Today I pulled the old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-wE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}