I put a Craig FM-cassette player in my '64 Pontiac with only and AM radio. Mounted on a quick-release tray so I could lock it in the trunk. Easy to break into the car (vent windows) tough to get into the trunk (no remote trunk release).
I put an FM convertor then AM/FM cassette stereos in my next two cars before buying an '84 Firebird with a good Delco stereo.
No!
My '71 Charger did not come from the factory with a right side mirror, and I had to have one installed by the dealership. That was clearly not yet a federal requirement in 1971.
Also, the lower-priced cars came with single-speed wipers–like my father’s '59 Plymouth Belvedere. Maybe multi-speed wipers were standard on the Fury model, but they were optional on the Belvedere model, and I can recall the wipers being–literally–overwhelmed by a heavy rain. But, at least they were better than the vacuum-powered wipers on my brother’s '54 Ford.
They have a better antenna; you use them outside.
Thanks for the correction. I misremembered. It’s really surprising to younger people when they find out how many things they expect in cars were extras, for which we paid. Mandatory seatbelts were a big deal. Back-up lights were only on the fancy models. And you’re right about the wipers, too. Chrysler used electric wipers for decades before GM or Ford - my father’s 40 Plymouth had them. They were only one speed, but the vacuum wipers GM and Ford used were terrible, stopping whenever you accelerated or went up a hil.
When did that become a requirement? Sorry don’t feel like looking it up.
Below is a 1991 Plymouth showing “radio delete” and without right outside mirror. The right fender has a plastic plug to fill the antenna hole.
I believe 1992 was the first year requiring a right-side mirror.
@bcohen2010 would love that car!
Had a drivers licence, blind in the right eye more or less, requirement was a left side mirror! Assuming driver side mirror.
The 1993 Toyota pickup I bought new did not have a right side mirror or a radio.
Right side mirror… passenger side is the right side.
Ohio’s law back in the day was if you were deaf, a right side mirror was required.
That was fancy compared to mine 
You skipped the 8-track??
Yes I did skip 8 tracks! I had a cassette recorder at home that I could use to make tapes from my albums sooo… I bought a cassette player for the car.
I thought 8 tracks were a dead-end audio format. 
They all were dead ends eventually HA! But you were a visionary to skip the 8 tracks…
I had a reel to reel at home. I got an 8 track deck for the car in a swap. Funny, my first cassette deck was from a swap too and it never did work right. Short end of that deal…
This ad from 1963 verifies that a radio, heater, and some other items that we now take for granted were optional for that model year.
The Chevy Chevette’s back seat was optional when it first came out.
IIRC, an opening trunk lid was optional on the Henry J. If you didn’t pay for that option, you had to wrestle your luggage into the trunk over the back seat.
My hand me down 1962 Chevy II Nova econocar had a chrome plate in place of a radio so if you wanted “music” it had to come from the singing from the other teenagers stuffed in the car, 
Also no padded dash, seatbelts, passenger side or dimming rearview mirror.
I seem to recall that radios didn’t generally become standard equipment until the Japanese manufactures like Honda realized that it was cheaper to put them into all the cars and build it into the price than install them at the port.
+1
But, it predated Honda’s marketing of cars in The US. A friend’s father bought a Datsun 410 sedan in 1965 or 1966. One of the features that the manufacturer touted was a standard, transistorized radio. However, I think that it took US car makers a few more years before they made radios “standard” on lower-priced models.
Transistors and printed circuits made car radios cheaper to manufacture as the price of transistors came down. I
I remember a classmate in high school in 1958 bought a pocket 4 transistor a.m.radio for $49.95, a large sum of money in those days. Ten years later, I bought a four transistor pocket radio for $2.95. That radio came with a one year warranty. All I had to do was ship it back with $5 to cover postage and handling if it quit functioning . As the cost of manufacturing came down in the same way for car radios, it was cheaper to make a radio standard equipment.
