Check this out guys: http://wps.com/projects/MP3-system/

Basically, some dude has a small PC running Ubuntu in his 1970 AMC Hornet. He has it connected up to a small VFD in the original AM Radio and has it controlled by the original knobs and buttons!

He has tried to make it as simple to use as possible and put quite a few hours into it to good effect.

Still, it reminds me a lot of 1998. I wonder whether this guy knows about the Empeg?