I have a golden gate bridge for sale if he wants it.
A friend of mine in high school had an 8-track player in his car in 1999.
HAHAHA!! I received a brand new (but stripped down) Toyota Corolla for a high school graduation gift from my family, and a boyfriend of mine at the time installed an 8 track recorder in it for me, which ofcourse my friends and I thought was 'way cool', or whatever the popular word we used at the time would have been.
Alice,
My first car was a 1975 Toyota Corolla D-E-L-U-X-E! When I would take sharp turns, the A/C would spray ice cold water on your face (or on the face of my hapless passengers...)
I miss that car. It was gray with a black interior. I had one of my buddies help me install a tape cassette sound system.
I had a series of Pontiac Trans Ams during my younger days. I do remember the first one having 8 track, then the next had cassette. I am much more economy minded these days, so no more sports cars. I put a CD in the player for my current car when I bought it to see if the player worked. I have never used it again. Unfortunately, the Pontiacs are going the way of the flesh, which is sad. They were great cars, and some of the sound systems weren't bad, either.
Let's see... I've owned 45's, 78's, and 33's, including some 12" 45s. I've owned 8 tracks. I've owned many standard audio cassettes and microcassettes.
I've worked with DAT (Digital Audio Tape), Reel to reel audio tape in 1/4" and 3/8", Reel to reel 3/4" and 1" videotape, plus beta (1/2"), μ-matic (3/4") and VHS (5/8") video cassette.
I've used RCA Selectivision videodisks, which are 12" vinyl with NTSC encoded, in a protective case system. I've also used 12" laser disk. My parents have working players for both, and all the disks.
I now use CD and MP3, as well as the now going out of date DVD... the Blue-Ray is poised to displace DVD, like VHS did the μ-matic.
I've got a phone with more computing power than my first desktop computer... not counting my dad's mechanical computers from his ca 1960 computing class at Michigan Tech.
I'm almost positive that it was Chrysler that offered record players in cars for a year or two. An old timer I knew had one, he said the slightest bump made it skip.
Etnick,
I believe you're correct regarding Chrysler - as to the skips, no question. Although the arm was weighted so as to reduce those somewhat, they happened.
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
I would think the record players in cars were not really intended for use while driving. I'm inclined to believe they would work better while "parking", as I believe they used to call it (before my time). Quick trip out to Lover's point, some romantic music on the record player...
I recall my grandfather mentioning something about recording on a wire...anyone know anything about that?
Seems to me many years ago I was watching a black and white WW2 flick and saw a scene in which a wire recorder was being used. Anyhow, here are some web links to check out the device.
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