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