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It's an Earth Day miracle. May Gaia bless us each and every one.

I had a few tapes that you had to wedge a pack of matches in below the tape or else the music would sound like you're on some sort of exotic drug or something. It put a whole new meaning on the term "far out".

yea i had a bunch back in the day

Those under age 55 or so will never know the joy of hearing the tape changing tracks in the middle of their favorite song.

.....or finding a really good tape and spending hard-earned bucks on it! Only to come back to your car and finding the case warped to the point it won't go into the player!
Heaven only knows how many dollars in warped 8-track tapes I've tossed into car wash trash cans! 😖
Did I learn?
Nope! Just went back and bought more! 🤪

take that back,

my granddad had a el camino with an 8 track player, I swear he only had one tape, Clarence Carter. My younger cousin would always start singing "I be strokin" when we would go to get in that mullet of a car.

THen I remember when they had the 8 track tape adapter you could put the newer cassettes in to play them.

I used to buy my 8-tracks from a store called "Tape World" . They would stamp the date of purchase right on the tape, and guarantee it for 30 days, no questions asked.

They must’ve been designed by a sadist to frustrate all that tried to use them.

The Stereo 8 Cartridge was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear, of Lear Jet Corporation,[8] along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records (RCA - Radio Corporation of America).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_cartridge

I still sing along with some of those songs on XM and add the clicks as I am singing. Only way I know how to sing some of them. I still have a box of those in storage. In my youth during the summer driving combine I had an 8 track and would listen to those for 14 hours a day. I would switch them up with friends that also had them in their combines and yes after a while you would have to "adjust" them with a wedge of some type. My parents bought a new Chrysler car in the early 70's and it had AM, FM, 8 Track, and on the Transmisson hump it had a new fandangled thing called a cassette player, played these tiny little things you put in there.

Those were the worse, especially when the music would fade down to change tracks right in the middle of a song.

Pulling out of the high school parking lot the day they turned us seniors loose: May 1969. Grassroots 8-Track playing "Live for Today" on the tape deck in my '67 Firebird. Tape deck stolen later that fall while at college.

I had dozens of them, until someone stole them.

I remember the crinkling sound that the player made when it started chewing up the tape…😳

I still have an Automatic Radio AM/FM 8 track under dash unit kicking around in my shop.

My 63 Impala SS 327 white on red, had a Lear Jet 8 track with a now small amp and speakers. Had a small Allen head wrench on the dash, to adjust the play back speed for the temperature change. Way better than the rock AM radio stations of the time that expired daily at sunset.
When I got the Impala, I called my Uncle in Birmingham, AL and drove down to his custom car shop to have the sound system installed over the weekend. Then drove back to Campbell in time for revile, Monday morning.

Still find a tape, in a storage box, now and then. Stones, CCR, Beatles, Zombies, Yardbirds, etc.

And not blurry at that!

It is, truly a miracle of epic proportion!

Ah but do any of you remember the 4 tract

I had a lear jet 8 track in my 64 Buick LeSabre. Those were the days!!