Robuck
Experienced Member
Hello
I know this doesn't really relate to vintage computers, but I'm not very familiar with other forums where it would be relevant. I am 17, and my mother recently bought me a brand new Dodge Challenger. I loved that car and instantly gained a lot of "cool points" with it, until I crashed it into a tree a few weeks ago. In summary, the car was totaled and now I am buying a 1986 Lincoln Town car. They are slow, weigh 4000 lbs, and will protect me like a tank. To stay with the 80's aesthetic, I want to get a car phone to use in it when I am flying down the highway, smoking a cigarette with the built in ash-tray. Of course, car phones haven't existed for a while due to cell phones being invented, but I still love the concept. Would it be at all possible to mod a handset to plug in to the headphone jack of my modern cell phone? I am envisioning something like those crappy plastic retro phones that do exactly this. Is there a diagram somewhere that can show me how to do this? It doesn't need to have all the functions of the phone working like the keypad or ringer, just the handset.
Thank you guys, any information would be greatly appreciated. If all else fails, I might resort to gutting one of the new cheapy versions and putting its components into the car phone.
I know this doesn't really relate to vintage computers, but I'm not very familiar with other forums where it would be relevant. I am 17, and my mother recently bought me a brand new Dodge Challenger. I loved that car and instantly gained a lot of "cool points" with it, until I crashed it into a tree a few weeks ago. In summary, the car was totaled and now I am buying a 1986 Lincoln Town car. They are slow, weigh 4000 lbs, and will protect me like a tank. To stay with the 80's aesthetic, I want to get a car phone to use in it when I am flying down the highway, smoking a cigarette with the built in ash-tray. Of course, car phones haven't existed for a while due to cell phones being invented, but I still love the concept. Would it be at all possible to mod a handset to plug in to the headphone jack of my modern cell phone? I am envisioning something like those crappy plastic retro phones that do exactly this. Is there a diagram somewhere that can show me how to do this? It doesn't need to have all the functions of the phone working like the keypad or ringer, just the handset.
Thank you guys, any information would be greatly appreciated. If all else fails, I might resort to gutting one of the new cheapy versions and putting its components into the car phone.
