8 Track tapes?
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8 Track tapes?
My wife and I buy storage units occasionally, and out of the last one I found like a dozen 8 track tapes. They look to be pretty good ones, from what I can tell. Does anybody collect these anymore? I don't want to just trash them.
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Don't trash them, I sure someone can use them... I have a few of them. When I go to car shows, I display them. I put one or two on the dash, put them on the seat or center console.. A long with an old Texaco paper map... The young people today can't read a road map... lol
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8 tracks?
This is from our local Restore of used but good items.
Somebody bought them all.
Young people cant read road maps? Good one.
This is from our local Restore of used but good items.
Somebody bought them all.
Young people cant read road maps? Good one.
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I guess that makes me old fashioned. When I went to look at the 68 convertible I stopped and bought a road map of California. Came in very handy finding a way around Los Angeles so I didn't have to drive through the city and I found an eight track tape player with some other stuff I had in storage. I may even put it in my old pickup.
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Never had more than a dozen "albums" myself, another dozen recorded from stereo music, but I added an 8-track player in my first car as soon as possible. That was mid-1970's. My older sister had a portable player during late 1960's and it was amazing to me. Unfortunately by the time I was really getting into those things the cassette took over, which I thought was a step backward to begin with. Had to adjust to the change, or lack of 'track change'. CD's were just around the corner by then too.
Worst thing about 8-track tape cartridges for me was the foil on loop coming loose. At least they were fairly easy to fix.
Link to a long read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape
Worst thing about 8-track tape cartridges for me was the foil on loop coming loose. At least they were fairly easy to fix.
Link to a long read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape
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I have about a dozen I display when I put my 78 in a show. My 8 track player works, but I don't play it at shows. I have three bluetooth speakers in the car synched with an old phone. On the phone I have the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever which plays through the speakers. In the tape deck I have the Saturday Night Fever 8 track. People think its really playing. Gets a lot of attention and comments. 