bj61662

I bought an 82 with the radio delete and the dealer installed a $1000. Kenwood AMFM Stereo Cassette radio. Doing some house cleaning and found about 100 cassettes and 20 8-tracks. The car is under cover at Van Bortels showroom so it will be Spring before I can test the cassettes. I'm sure many of you can give the C3 years that had 8-track and cassette radio options. Grandkids will probably get the collections.

MelWff

8 track first became an option in 1977 and continued through 82
cassette first became an option in 1979 and continued through 82

gbvette62

The 8 track was offered through 81, it was discontinued for 1982.

M. Young

My 81 came with an 8-track that the PO threw out! I do anything to find a nice 8-track to put back in the car.

bj1k

I guess nobody is old enough to remember the 4 track . I had one in a 62 Corvair coupe when my wife was in the hospital after giving birth to our son and I was driving home from visiting them listening to some great oldies when it caught fire under the dash . Didn't do any damage to the car , just destroyed the player so I could never play those tunes again .

GUSTO14

I bought my '63 Convertible in 1969 and a friend had just bought an 8-track for his car. He decided that I really needed his 4-track and gave it to me. By '69 hardly anyone was even carrying 4-track tapes, heck I hadn't even heard of them until he gave it to me. I had to travel to Time Magazine in NYC a few weeks later and found more 4-tracks than I could carry around Times Square.

A week later someone broke into my car while we were at the movies and stole that darn 4-track... they cut my top to get into the car. I would have given it to them if I knew someone wanted it! The worst thing was they left the few tapes I had for it behind the seat!

The tapes were slightly smaller than 8-Tracks, and not even close to being interchangeable. They were mono, not stereo which is the reason why they died out so quickly.

GUSTO

Richard Daugird

They probably don't know what the Hell a cassette is, let alone an 8 track.

resdoggie

How about an under dash record player?

BLUE1972

I still have my 8 track and it works.

I pulled it from my truck a few years ago when people started offering me money for it.

I figured it would disappear, like my first one did in my 68 firebird, it cost me a window.

Now if it was a CB/8 track.

You can find some at flee markets, usually not OEM.

bj1k

I have to admit that I've never seen that one.

Rky Mtn C6

The 8 track in my 78 is original and still works. In case anybody is interested, here are a few for sale.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1977-Corvett...ZYd-LF&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Delco-AM-FM-...RYSx-g&vxp=mtr

LT1M21Vette

Subaru dealership?

BLUE1972

this one took 45"s

resdoggie

Do ya think it skipped a lot going over potholes? LOL! Who knows what a 45 is or a 78?

Mr D.

I have a 4-track in my music room as well as a Pioneer RT-99 8 Track, I'm guessing I have about 600 8 Track tapes.

Yea I know, crazy. I did have a 77 with the 8 Track and a few Red Foxx tapes.

bazza77

ha, we're old! what about a 16 ? we had a player (in the house) that played 16 ,33,45 and 78.!

GUSTO14

I bought a left over '77 after the '78's came out and it had a factory 8-track installed. The dealer also had a rack of other radios in their showroom including one that took cassette's that they could add to a purchase as a dealer installed option. Since 1977 was the first year the C2 Corvette could take a standard size corporate radio, I asked if they could swap out the 8-track in my Corvette for a cassette radio and they said sure, if you pay extra.

I tried pointing out that the 8-track was a $400 optional radio so why did I have to pay extra? They told me, no one wants an 8-track any more, if we traded you, we'd never sell that thing!

GUSTO

bj1k

I guess I have to admit that I'm an old fart too because I remember having all of those in the house , but not in the cars. I even remember when our family got our first TV a small 15 inch plastic round case Philco black and white that as a child we watched Bugs Bunny and the Lone Ranger on . Wow , I'm getting old !

bj61662

Kitty VanBortel owns the 1st or 2nd largest Subaru dealership in the U.S. and is starting to build her Corvette dealership. Check out VanBortel Corvettes,

Paul L

I don't go "quite" that far back to have owned one. I do remember 1963 reverb units for Chevs and Pontiacs with rear speakers.