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What’s this ? Found in my glove box
I found this little guy in my glove box . 67 gto
Can anyone tell me what it is ? |
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Looks like maybe some residue on that razor blade, someone was doin' some lines with it years ago?
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That was me yesterday. The whole car is torn apart now
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ebay!
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That is an adapter to put into a 4-track tape cartridge so it will play in an 8-track player.
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Wow !! Thanks
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Are you bullshanking us ?? |
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omg
HahahaHAHAhaHaha |
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That is what it is. Adapter from 4 track to 8 track. I haven't seen one of those for 40 years. The AR logo stands for Automatic Radio.
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I could have used that in the 1970's, the 63 Bonneville I owned then had a 4-Track player. It only came with 3 Tapes and I didn't like 2 of them. I could have played all my 8-tracks in it. Never knew they existed.
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I still have the Automatic Radio 8 track player I got for Christmas as a teenager (I had it in my '61 Catalina back then) and now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure it came with one of those Gidget gadgets in the box. |
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That thing is cool! Never heard of such a thing, didn't even know they made 4 track cartridges!! It should be in a museum. Cant be more than one of them out there by now.
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This is pretty cool .
Maybe you can post a picture of it . I can tell something was mounted on the carpet right in front of the 4 speed shifter. My car still has the original carpet, Thanks guys Quote:
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I found this ad on eBay . I’m thinking that device was mounted in my car in front of the 4 speed . ...I could be wrong though
One more thing I see . This product is from Massachusetts.. that’s where my car came from and was built in Framingham Last edited by gto19; 11-22-2019 at 11:09 AM. |
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My BIL had a 4 track tape player he received for a birthday present. One of the tapes was Leonard Nimoy singing.....
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Collectible for sure.
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Back in the late sixties I had. Simca that had a 4 track player it . If I were too mention that today, probably no one would know they even existed. My wife doesn’t, and sometimes I even questioned whether my memory was accurate.
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It's sort of a curiosity today, but not worth much or collectible unless you happen to have some 4 track tapes sitting around. They were a pretty short fad that pretty much went away about five minutes after 8 tracks were introduced.
For those who have never seen one, unlike an 8 track where you stuck it into a slot on the front, a 4 track cartridge sort of sat on top of the player. Muntz was the main brand, this is a picture of their player: Quote:
My Automatic Radio 8 track player looked like this. It mounted under the dash on a heavy steel bracket, and was removable; you'd take it out of the car so people couldn't steal it. I imagine they had other models that did mount on the trans tunnel. My first job out of engineering school was at a company that built the recording and playback tape heads that went inside 8 track players. By the time I got there, 8 tracks were basically dead and they had moved on to building the heads that went in computer hard drives and floppy disk drives, but we still had a ton of old 8 track stuff sitting around. My job was designing and building the automated manufacturing and testing machines used to make the heads, and we would store the machine programs on 8 track tapes - when you walked through the production area, every machine or console had a 8 track player sticking out of the front panel. I always thought it was pretty funny. |
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Ok, I've heard of '4 track' before, and heard that it was similar to '8 track', but this adapter and discussion made me look it up;
4-Track (youtube) video interesting! not captivating, but interesting! Now, my question is this; Were '4 tracks' as prone to over tightening and breaking at the glued ends as '8 tracks'?
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