My 8-Track Collection Circa 1977

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Don't have an 8 track player any longer.

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You want one? I have an NOS RCA AM/FM/8 track in the original box.
 
:rofl:Around that time, I had Zepplin, Jethro Tull, Golden Earring, Eagles, Michael Martin Murphy, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, Joe Ely, Charlie Daniels Band, Elvin Bishop, and lots of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.

One tough morning after a real good night of partying, I parked in the school parking lot way away from my classes. I got back about 4 hrs later and I did not see any glass in my doors - Crap! I ran to my car and I heard the 8-track - I had left the windows rolled down...

So, still under the influence of the night before, I apparently rolled the windows down, not up. To make it more embarrassing, I left a tape playing and no one liked my musical selections enough to reach in and steal them.
 
Wish I had kept dads home 8 track setup. Nothing feels better than nostalgia. Dad had a lot. Waylon Kenny Rogers and the 1st Edition Kris Kristofferson. Cool stuff.
 
I still have all mine and I play them once in a while. Fixed many of them as well with the sensing coil.
I also have my vinyl and cassettes as well. Did have 78's at one time.
 
I have a Mopar Accessory underdash 8 track for my dart . Havent installed it yet so I am not sure if it works... looks like new though and came with a pamplet .
 
Daves69 said:
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...and it wasn't just the players that loved those tapes. The first couple of years after my ex and I first married we had a couple of cockatiels. They had a huge cage with a manzanita branch in it but the cage door was usually left open so they could have the run of our apartment.
That lasted until the day I went to play one of my favorite 8-tracks and found one of the birds had been playing with the tape and left little "beak cuts" about every 1/8" along the tape.
 
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RAT ROD AL said:
And right in the middle of the best part , it would switch to the next track.
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And almost as hard to find these days as an 8 track tape and player is a match book to jam under the 8 track cassette to keep it from double tracking...
And you could always pull out the matchbook in a pinch to set the points...
 
That looks like it's for a ford/philco opening.
 
YY1 said:
That looks like it's for a ford/philco opening.
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It's for any Ford product from the late 60s up through the early 80s. That's why I got it. To go in my truck.
 
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