You know your old if you had an 8 track tape player.
How many people can go to thier garage and pull out a working 8 track player?
Does anyone still use one to this day?
And then thier was Quad

 

I had a box full of those, plus a portable player, one in my car, and one in my all-in-one home stereo. Sometimes the home stereo would 'double-track', and I remember Lynerd Skynerd's "Freebird" getting cut in half with a clunk as the track shifted. I sold the car (had a CB in it too - geez I must be old), tossed the home stereo and portable player, and got on with my life in 1979. Sold the tapes at a garage sale in 1984. I knew Quadraphonic's days were numbered when Steve Martin made fun of it on his albums.

 

I had tons of 8-track tapes, and several tape players. My brother-in-law snagged them all from me a few years back and used them for tunes in his shop. Still has them. Anyone remember 4-track? The tape looked like an 8-track but with a hole in the bottom where the tape feed roller goes. You slide it in and pull a lever and the roller, which is attatched to the tape deck pops up into the hole in the tape. The head only has two positions instead of four. I found one at a swap meet when I was a kid, only found one tape for it. And how about under-dash 45 rpm record players? They wern't too good on bumpy roads! -TD

 

well the 8 track was a little before my time, but my parents had their 8 track stereo for the longest and if i remember correctly i think my mom still has it...not sure if it works though

 

Man, I wore out my "Rumors" and "Live at Budokan" tapes.

 

In the Garage ?

I have five working 8-track players.

One of them is presently mixed with all the other stereo equipment because it is used occasionally

Now, How many people have a vehicle record player in their possession?

Auto manufacturer's used to have them as an option.
I think Seabreeze made them.

I have one for playing 45's on.


I also have an ElCassette Player ?

Best format ever. 1/2" tape (Reel to Reel) in cassette form.

 

yes...do i miss them no

 

I just threw all my tapes and 2 players out when we moved 2 years ago

 

Well, I had one up till last year (sold it at a garage sale). I think I wore out "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love In My Tummy" by the 1910 Fruitgum Co. on that thing! Did I just show my age?

Mid to late 50s Chrysler products had the HiWay HiFi- played special, slow-turning records you could only buy at the dealership. An uncle of mine had one in his Imperial. We were amazed at the time!

 

Hey Jeff,
How about a Console style Ice Cube cooled air conditioner unit in the 50's Cadillac ?

Audio related again.
How about the 8-track to cassette tape convertor ?
I still have 3 of those as well.

I remember all of these being :"the New Technology for the ages"

 

Anyone buy a 4 track for the 15 minutes they were on sale?????

 

Yes, I had a Muntz "Blue Light" 4-track in my 1965 Impala. It was all chrome and hung under the dash. The 4-track tapes looked exactly like the 8-track, but the idler wheel was missing. It popped up from the player itself. There was just a hole in the plastic.

Jim

 

In the '60's I ran a bootleg AM radio station in the garage using a surplus WWII tank transmitter and ran a couple 4-track players for the announcements, funny sounds and special effects. The tapes had a metalized splice which made them easy to que up.

Later on I had a VW microbus with a Motorola Quad 8-track player, four volume controls, pretty cool but it ate my Lynyrd Skynyrd tape!

 

I had an 8 track. How about the car cooler that went on the passenger side window. You put water in it once in awhile.

 

Yes, my first car had an 8 track, but I ditched it shortly after I bought the car. Biggest problems with them was that the tape would strrrrrrrretch over time, and they also changed tracks in the middle of a song.

On the other hand, I've got a phonograph that plays cylindrical records. They are about 2 1/2" diameter by about 6" long. Many of the records are blue in color. Thank God I didn't buy that phonograph when it was new; if I did then I'd have to consider myself "old".