When was the last time you seen a 8 track plug in that is a am/fm radio?

 

I had an AM/8track in my 68 GT Mustang Fastback. That's the last time I saw one. Never really liked 8 tracks, they were big and bulky and always changed tracks in the middle of songs. Their life expectancy was not very good and you were always fiddling with them to get them to work. There was a knack to pulling the tape out and getting it snap back in to tighten them up. A lot of tapes required a folded up match book to prop it up so it would play right.

 

I know Erick but this converts your 8 track player to a radio am/fm.It is the size of a 8 track tape!

 

I misunderstood the question. I had a cassette type adaptor that would hook up to portable cd player I used way back when in my Jeep.

 

Yep i still have one of those also.My dad gave me what i think is a mini 9 channel cb radio. Also along with base station a three cb radios, scanner, power supply. A telegraph key with a speaker and a tube set instruction cassette for morse code. I don't know what i am going to do with any of this stuff LOL. I have no use for any of it.

 

Morse code was used on ham radios. Some of that old stuff is sought after.

 

Oh the memories. Eric remember what else that match book was for?

If your points were sticking you would use the sticker sand paper to sand your points and the flip over cover was just the right thickness to gap the points after your sanded them. It would get you home. Not to mention the other uses for the matches. I am sure glad those days are gone.

Thanks for the memories

Larry

 

A friend and I swapped engines in his car a while back and the distributor he was using was an old points type that had been sitting around for about 20 years. He didn't have a dwell or feeler gauges when we went to start it up. So not to be deterred there was an old book of matches in the glove box. Just like ol times. I brought my dwell over a week later and before adjusting anything gave it a check, 29 and we laughed our asses off.

 

I use one of those in my Cutlass, but connected to an ipod or phone and not a portable CD player.