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I remember the crinkling sound that the player made when it started chewing up the tape…😳 .....or it would go fast forward real fast like the chipmunks. Then you'd spend the next 3 hours picking tape out of the deck.
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I had an 8 track in a Firebird back in the day. I wore out a “Peter Frampton Comes Alive” tape in that thing.
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Of course not.
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I had an 8 track in a Firebird back in the day. I wore out a “Peter Frampton Comes Alive” tape in that thing. I hear ya. I wore the first one out and had to buy another tape. lol
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Those Pioneer Supertuners were the tits...
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I remember the 4 tracks! It was a great day when 8 tracks came out and already had the wheel in them. My room mate in college worked at Columbia Records in Terre Haute and when they had a monthly sale of " seconds" employees got advanced buying. We had all the latest stuff! Records were a buck and 8 tracks were two. We used to buy the good stuff and sell to friends for $3.50 which was half price.
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Had one in my 66 mustang, about 1976. Cassettes were becoming popular a few years later.
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Wabby do you play your 78rpm vinyls also?
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Suddenly can post pictures.
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I still have all mine. Wish I could get them transferred to CD's.I have quite few 78's too.
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Heck, I remember 4 track tapes....
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Current truck doesn't even have a CD player. Can't remember if previous car did. Car before that only had AM/FM.
Like a lot of Gen X - I had the GIANT portfolio of CD's on the passenger seat to change music at stop signs. Then we got 5 disc changers but the Crutchfield catalog was REQUIRED lunch time reading. (shoehorned 2 Rockford Fosgate 10 inch subs behind the seat of my regular cab Toyota with the amp under the seat. Ported, a good bass track would launch rolled up socks out the ports - it moved some air)
Buddy had 8 track in his 79 Corolla he drove to school.
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my cousin worked for the New York City sanitation department. Back in the late 70s everybody was throwing them out. He took them all lol, he had 100s and 100s … after a while we started use them as target practice.
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I bought a 76 Camaro in 1983 when I turned 16, still got the car! Lol It had a Pioneer 8 track in it, played alot of 8 tracks and then bought a cassette adapter so I could play my cassette tapes. Thought it sounded pretty good back then! Lol
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Heck, I remember 4 track tapes.... LMAO.. it only because that reminds me of my grandmother. she knew 8-track tapes and had a few when I was a small kid. but she got some sort of newer car that had it one of the first cassette players in it. she was kind of disappointed when they ate tracks didn't work in the cassette player but she just was looking for 6 tracks. and that's what she called a cassette player to the day she died was a 6 track I guess she called it that cuz it was smaller.. to put it all in perspective she passed away something like 96 to 98 range..
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I grew up on 8 tracks. Home stereo 33 LPs and 8 tracks. Always old Country. First 2 cars had AM/FM 8 tracks. By the time I was driving, I listened to Rock and Country. I bought a cassette adapter that played cassettes in an 8 track player from a buddy, and started buying cassettes about 1980 or 81. I remember the first cassette I bought was Meat Loaf’s “Bat Outta Hell!😎 From then on I bought cassettes, until I finally switched to CDs in the late 90s. Few years ago, I was helping my Aunt read up her attic. She had 3 or 4 big boxes full of 8 track tapes, all 70s Country. She joined one of them tape clubs, where you bought a dozen for a dollar, and then 2 or 3 a month for a year!😀 Wilma was a big influence on me, and i know there was a big pile of some solid gold Country there! Johnny Cash, Conway, Patsy Cline, Loretta…, heck, you name it!😀 I’m gonna go to an auction and get one of them old stereos for a couple bucks just to see if those things will still play! I haven’t decided whether I’ll give her the stereo, or buy her out of those old tapes! Reon
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8-tracks, cassettes...the CD was a FANTASTIC invention.
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Yes. They sucked compared to technology we have now.
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Still have a working 8 track player and a 100 or so tapes in the game room here at house.
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Still have a working 8 track player and a 100 or so tapes in the game room here at house. I have a friend with 5000 records and 6000 CD's in his media room (his count, not mine). Each backed up to a hard drive/recorded etc. He's a music nut but no 8 tracks lol. One of those guys whose every electronic device he owns is on his network. Smart guy, former coms guy in the Army but that's too much for me.
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