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Old 09-21-2017, 10:11 PM
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Yes a Record Player for a Car.I guess it was before 8 track player but I bet it skipped on a bumpy road.
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I had one in a 51 Chev and one in a 56 Chev. One was a 6 volt unit and one was a 12 volt unit. They both worked pretty good or we thought so back then.
I also had a 65 Chevell with a reverberation unit, that was state of the art in it's day.
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Car record players were available in the 1950s and 1960s, but I think they were expensive options and didn't catch on. I remember a friend having one (in a late 50s Plymouth), but I am pretty sure it did not use 45 records, I think it used special 16-2/3 RPM records. 4- and 8-track cartridges didn't appear until the mid 1960s, and didn't become widely popular until somewhat later. My first 8-track in-car player wasn't until sometime in the early 1970s. I bought one and installed it myself. I thought it was very neat. I also had a FM tuner for that same car radio I also installed. It somehow converted an FM signal to AM so it could be heard on an AM radio. I still have an indoor AM/FM receiver with an 8-track player I bought in the early 70s, and somewhere I have a few 8-track cartridges. I haven't played any of those for many years. The problem with 8-track cartridges is that they have a limited useful life. When the piece of tape used to close the tape loop comes loose, it really can't be fixed. I have tried. CDs are so much better.

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Nice. But I would not want to use that on a bumpy road.
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In the early '60's I saw one in JC. Whitney catalog. Thought they were better than sliced bread. Shortly after that 8 Track players came out. My used '65 Ford F100 long bed found itself with a used one and a couple flush mounted speakers. Then it was onto a very expensive (to me back then) 8 Track player/recorder and made my own tapes from 33's and 45's. High cotton. hardcase60
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My buddy, now my bro in law, had a neighbor with a 55/56 T bird complete with a 45rpm record player. He borrowed that thing for he and I to double date in, high school prom. I married my date 5 yrs later, took him 20 yrs to do the same.

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Here is a little more background on the car phonographs:
Chrysler's in-car phonograph - CNET

I was sure I remembered about their using the 16-2/3 RPM records. I think the idea was that they played a lot longer than 45s, but the sound quality was not so good. That wouldn't make much difference in a car, certainly not a car of that era. Apparently those players worked with both 16-2/3s and 45s. I think my friend's car with a record player was a '56 Plymouth. As I remember, back then some home LP turntables could also play the 16-2/3s records.

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My buddy, now my bro in law, had a neighbor with a 55/56 T bird complete with a 45rpm record player. He borrowed that thing for he and I to double date in, high school prom. I married my date 5 yrs later, took him 20 yrs to do the same.

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Nice. But I would not want to use that on a bumpy road.
They did skip. They were OK parked, or on a smooth road, but stuff like potholes and railroad tracks would mess them up.
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Nice. But I would not want to use that on a bumpy road.
A friend had one and it could sound off like a set of bongo drums on a bumpy street. Most of Albany NY back in that era!

I had a reverb unit and it also could make some interesting sounds under the right road conditions.
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Along these lines of obsolete music machines for your car: I had a 1974 K-5 Blazer with a soft top. In it I installed an 8-track player that player Quadraphonic (2 sets of 4 tracks) or regular 8 tracks. I installed 4 nice speakers centered on the back seat. Edge Winter's "They only come out at night" would spin the music around in circles, then just when you were used to it, it would spin the other way.
I only owned 2 Quad tapes for it. The Blazer turned to rust about 1986, the player was still in the vehicle, but somewhere I still have the tapes. PM me if you need them!

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C'mon now! That's part of the nostalgia!! Just rock and skip to the oldies!!
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A friend had one and it could sound off like a set of bongo drums on a bumpy street. Most of Albany NY back in that era!

I had a reverb unit and it also could make some interesting sounds under the right road conditions.
Yup, my factory reverb would always go 'boinggggggg" when I hit railroad tracks at anything greater than 5 mph. Of course most of our RR track crossings were in terrible shape.
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My high school friend Scott had a reverb in his mom's 64 Galaxy 500 drop top. We were parked with our dates behind Logalbo's Pizza on Belmont ave in Chicago. Scott's date was a door hanger. Mine was a , well, "fun date". The first time I ever heard Tommy James singing "My baby does the Hanky-Panky, it was through that big speaker in the middle of the package shelf in the back seat. Scott turned it all the way up, I sat up, startled, and durned near knockrd myself unconscious on one of the top struts. I coulda killed him. Cost me a (probably) sure thing.
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My dad had one in a 64 Mustang. If I remember correctly, the records played upside down and the tone arm was spring loaded. It wouldn't take very long to wear out the records. And his were 45's.
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Well, when they were made, there was only records and AM radio. They probably worked just fine while hanging at the drive-in or parking. I think the tape machines came along about 1965, with the 4 track, which worked better than the 8 track because the drive wheel was in the player instead of the tape, but it only had 2 tracks instead of 4 like the 8 tracks. How many times did we wedge a book of matches under an 8 track tape to keep it from dragging or double tracking?
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I'll settle for a decent turntable to spin my vinyl albums that is compatable with all my other HIFI stuff.
Sorry for the thumbs down, that musta been a finger slip.

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Mine is a pretty good one, but would not work well in a car.
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Well, when they were made, there was only records and AM radio. They probably worked just fine while hanging at the drive-in or parking. I think the tape machines came along about 1965, with the 4 track, which worked better than the 8 track because the drive wheel was in the player instead of the tape, but it only had 2 tracks instead of 4 like the 8 tracks. How many times did we wedge a book of matches under an 8 track tape to keep it from dragging or double tracking?
I learned when I bought my first 8 track that there was earlier 4 track models, and bought a model that played both 4 and 8 track tapes. My next lesson was how to clean the head with a long swab and alcohol. That lesson was quickly followed by how to realign the head. The final lesson was how to remove a tape from the machine, including several feet that had unreeled and wound itself around the capstan of the tape player, and then rewind said tape back into the tape cassette.

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