Car Phones have long gone the way of the Dodo and now roam the planet as static props in luxury classic cars. There have been modern takes on adapting these old phones to work with modern phones but only once that I can find was there ever a commercial product that gave you the look and feel of a car phone while actually being just a handsfree Bluetooth device. Lets take a look at the rather expensive and uncommon CT1000 and see if it lives up to the name.

Cartel Mobile Solution's Website (as of 2016. The last year the site was still up) https://web.archive.org/web/201606250...

A simplified guide and the wiring diagram for the CT1000 can be found here https://archive.org/details/ct1000inst

As far as I can tell, this is the full Users Manual provided by CarTel and submitted to the FCC https://archive.org/details/cartelc...

Here's UselessPickle's finished Bleutooth adapter for the Mitsubishi DiamondTel    • Mitsubishi 3000GT Factory Car Phone F...  
Again, I'm not downplaying in the video that he should of done something better or more common and therefore his work is not interesting. (or at least in editing I felt I was sounding too negative) The fact remains nobody has tried this on their own before him and succeeded. 1 is more than 0. I still strongly appreciate and respect the work he put into how clean it is. Good job!

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