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Posted: 6/13/2016 4:02:41 AM EDT

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Oh hell yeah...This bad-boy right here!

Craig Floor-Mount 8-Track mounted on the 'hump' of my '60-something Dodge. The entire unit was removable from its base-plate via the keyed lock.

Way cool!

Pretty good sound as long as you kept the head clean....and kept the head demagnetized....and kept the head aligned. Kinda high maintenance.

Posted: 6/13/2016 4:16:41 AM EDT

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My first car was a Datsun 710 wagon with an 8-track. Had Styx - Pieces of Eight.

Just FYI, Datsun wagons can't cross creeks worth a shit.

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I had that same album on 8 track.

Posted: 6/13/2016 4:40:25 AM EDT

[#3]

I had a 2 track tape player....

Posted: 6/13/2016 4:59:33 AM EDT

[#4]

Sure did.

Posted: 6/13/2016 5:01:41 AM EDT

[#5]

Yep...we had some in our cars (families Plymouth Fury III and brothers Barracuda), as well as a couple of 8 track "boom boxes"

Posted: 6/13/2016 5:06:25 AM EDT

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A better illustration of the quality of 8 track tapes were all the tapes beside the road (especially at intersections with red lights) with a 1/4 mile of wadded up tape hanging out of them.

Posted: 6/13/2016 5:28:02 AM EDT

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Got one in the back of the shop with AM/FM. Just use the stereo to listen to ball games and such...

Posted: 6/13/2016 5:33:28 AM EDT

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Yep, fucker wouldn't change tracks when it was cold.

I put a 40 watt power booster on it and melted my Kracos; had to get me some Jensens.

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Jensen 6X9 were awsome in my friends camero... Yes I had an 8track

Posted: 6/13/2016 6:06:31 AM EDT

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Back in 1969 when I got a new to me 1966 Chevelle I put a cassete player and two Craig speakers in it. The standard installation was to put the two speakers in the rear deck below the rear window. I thought it was great, except for when then the tape would get caught in the unit and you'd have to pull it out and try to rewind the tape back in the cassette. Happened pretty regularly. It happened with the 8 track tapes and with the newer cassette tapes. Sometimes you couldn't do it and had to throw the tape away.

Posted: 6/13/2016 6:31:23 AM EDT

[#10]

Lol I STILL have hundreds of 8 track tapes.

Posted: 6/13/2016 6:33:49 AM EDT

[#11]

Had one in the 1976 Lincoln Town car I drove for a while.

Posted: 6/13/2016 7:01:26 AM EDT

[#12]

I had one in my car, and I still have my CRAIG 8-Track recording deck with a walnut enclosure, in its original box.
Dual vu-meters, 'all-in-one' switch, just a great piece of equipment. I don't know why I still have it, though.

Posted: 6/13/2016 7:18:55 AM EDT

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My first car was a Datsun 710 wagon with an 8-track. Had Styx - Pieces of Eight.

Just FYI, Datsun wagons can't cross creeks worth a shit.

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I wore out three tapes of that album in my 72 Chevy Blazer.

Posted: 6/13/2016 7:52:43 AM EDT

[#14]

Yes, In my car was a Realistic 8-track and 2 Jensen Tri-ax speakers in home made boxes. Deep Purple and BOC never sounded better.

Posted: 6/13/2016 7:53:15 AM EDT

[#15]

I'm 48. Of course I did.

Posted: 6/13/2016 9:26:28 AM EDT

[#16]

Yes that was all that was around back in the day.

Posted: 6/13/2016 9:29:41 AM EDT

[#17]

My dad had one when I was growing up. I remember hearing Johnny Cash on it.

Posted: 6/13/2016 9:47:03 AM EDT

[#18]

Yup. Still have one, and some 8 track tapes kicking around here somewhere.

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:06:43 AM EDT

[#19]

Yep. Back in ~1993 when I was ~14 or so, I bought a deck and a big box of cartridges at a flea market for $10 (most of them were country music, novelty trucker song compiliations and a HILARIOUS one that taught you CB slang). I did it more for the novelty of it, than anything else. It was fun.

A funny side effect of this - I've long maintained that I'm the only 36 year old in existence that knows how to re-spool an 8-track.

It was a skill born of necessity. I thought I was a fucking genius when I figured that one out as a teenager.

Related: I quickly learned how to align the cart with a matchbook, to keep the crosstalk on the shitty deck I was using to a minimum. I was proud of myself for that one too, until my parents saw it and started laughing. Much like blowing into a Nintendo cartridge when it doesn't work, teenagers seem to universally arrive at the exact same solutions spontaneously, even when separated by time, geography, or instruction. It just organically happens. Somebody should study this.

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:16:52 AM EDT

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Yes, and it sucked when it switched tracks in the middle of a song.

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My parents had one when I was a kid, so we are familiar. To this day when I hear certain songs I still expect to hear that clacking interruption in it.

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:21:57 AM EDT

[#21]

Nope, owned three.

One in the car, and two in the house;

one house 8-Track was built into an all in one system and one was a "High End" stand alone model (yes they made them much like stand alone cassettes, reel-to-reel, etc).

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:37:33 AM EDT

[#22]

Sure did, at home and in the cruiser - 1970 AMC Hornet

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:39:53 AM EDT

[#23]

Of course!

Belonged to Columbia House too

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:44:19 AM EDT

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Still have one.

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I've got "Rock And Roll High School" and some Sabbath on 8-track.
My only 8 track is in the side of a reel to reel player.

The best of both worlds!

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:47:07 AM EDT

[#25]

Only one. In a no name receiver I used in the garage.

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:47:49 AM EDT

[#26]

I've still got an 8-track recorder. But nobody seems to carry blank tapes anymore?

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:50:40 AM EDT

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Of course!

Belonged to Columbia House too

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Yep, plus had the "suitcase" of tapes in the backseat.

I'm gonna go search for a pic from google.

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:53:04 AM EDT

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/489133209499522574/

I remember them holding more, but that is about the size of them. That is crazy how little music we could carry around back then.

Posted: 6/13/2016 10:55:12 AM EDT

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Got one in the back of the shop with AM/FM. Just use the stereo to listen to ball games and such...

<a href="http://s192.photobucket.com/user/chadwimc/media/8track1_zpshydkhykb.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z64/chadwimc/8track1_zpshydkhykb.jpg</a>

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Clarinette was some high end Radio Shack stuff.

Posted: 6/13/2016 11:06:21 AM EDT

[#30]

Had one in my '65 GTO.

Posted: 6/13/2016 11:15:01 AM EDT

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I've still got an 8-track recorder. But nobody seems to carry blank tapes anymore?

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There are several choices on AMAZON.COM.

Not cheap, but not unrealistic for obsolete media IMHO and some are Prime eligible.

Posted: 6/13/2016 11:17:26 AM EDT

[#32]

Yeah, I also had a Quad-8

For those of you who have no idea what they were....

Stereo = 2 separate sounds

Quad = 4 separate sounds

And if you had a tape that was RECORDED in quad it was amazing. But as pointed out they were damn hard to obtain.

The Led Zepplin song Whole Lotta Love was WILD played on quad when the sound started going from one speaker to the next in a circle.

I had on quad...

The Grass Roots
Led Zepplin
Three Dog Night
And maybe a couple of others

Posted: 6/13/2016 11:28:39 AM EDT

[#33]

I had one in my 66 mustang convertible factory installed , my folks gave me receiver with tape player in 1975 I still have a found a few old tapes.

Posted: 6/13/2016 11:45:05 AM EDT

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The neon red square one with the plunger handle on top that most kids had then.

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I had one of those, plus the home stereos and in my first car. (The one in my avatar). It had a factory AM radio, so I added an 8-Track, mounted to the side of the console. I also put a pair of Jensen Triaxials in it. :)

Edit - You can see it mounted to the console, where my knee would rest against it as I drove.

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