Vintage Stereo stuff

[Steve Shauger]

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M: I've got a JC Penney converter that is a self contained unit...plug your antenna into the converter, then the lead from the converter goes to the am radio...if your current radio works, then this would work slick, and you could hide it if'n you want. My problem is, my am radio in my 'Sub quit, and they are a sonofagun to change in the '67-'72 trucks...so the 8-track w/plug in converter could band-aid it for me...

As for 8 tracks, folks around here just give 'em to me...

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Here is a pic of your FM Stereo converter. It contains 7 transistors and 9 diodes worth of leading edge, hi fidelity enjoyment.

[njsteve]

So that's what the antennae contraption is supposed to look like! I had to make my own by getting the correct connector at Radio Shack and adding a wire to it. (Bought the unit off ebay and it had no antennae wire at all.)

Never thought it had such an involved antennae splice-harness. Got any more of those NOS contraptions lieing around?

[drdave69]

I've been trying to find an old AM/FM/Cassette radio for my Nova for months now with no luck. Two that I have bought would not fit (although the seller stated they would) and another did not work. I have already installed two small modern speakers in the dash waiting on sound to flow thru them. It has proved to be difficult to find a radio that has a shaft width of 6 - 1/4 inches.

[x Baldwin Motion]

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I've been trying to find an old AM/FM/Cassette radio for my Nova for months now with no luck. Two that I have bought would not fit (although the seller stated they would) and another did not work. I have already installed two small modern speakers in the dash waiting on sound to flow thru them. It has proved to be difficult to find a radio that has a shaft width of 6 - 1/4 inches.

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Dave I have a Pioneer super tuner KPA700 that may have adjustable shafts, it's from the mid 80's. I'll dig it out on Sunday and let you know.

[DarrenX33]

I picked up this NOS item a while back to install in my L78. Vintage late 70's early 80's I believe.

[Salvatore]

Very nice item Darren!

[Kim_Howie]

This 8-track comb center I bought new 40 years ago. Still works in my garage. :bigthumbup:

[ANDY M]

Sly & the Family Stone, OHIO STATE FAIR, 1968!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lrt2RAnOy...eature=related
This helped get them to WoodStock.
This is what you'd hear on the 8-track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14yEO8nfqxE&NR=1
Real cruisin tunes, real live music.

[drdave69]

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I've been trying to find an old AM/FM/Cassette radio for my Nova for months now with no luck. Two that I have bought would not fit (although the seller stated they would) and another did not work. I have already installed two small modern speakers in the dash waiting on sound to flow thru them. It has proved to be difficult to find a radio that has a shaft width of 6 - 1/4 inches.

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Dave I have a Pioneer super tuner KPA700 that may have adjustable shafts, it's from the mid 80's. I'll dig it out on Sunday and let you know.

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If it will fit a Nova/Camaro dash (6 - 1/4 shaft width) I'll take it off your hands. Thanks for thinking of me.

[Dog427435]

For you younger guys who only know cd's - before cd's & cassette's there were 8-tracks - but first there were 4-tracks

Earl "Madman" Muntz, the creator of the Cadillac powered Muntz Jet, invented the Muntz Stereo-Pak 4-track system in 1962 as a way to play prerecorded tapes in cars. 4-track tapes were originally thought of as unmarketable.
In the 4-track format, the pinch roller (the wheel that moves the tape along as it plays) was housed in the player. The 4-track cartridge had two programs--the tape played all the way around the loop, then started all over again. In fact, the format took its name from the fact that two programs, each with two tracks of information (left and right channels of a stereo mix) equals four tracks. The two programs of the 4-track format were like the two sides of an LP, each holding roughly half the total program material.
Despite 4-track's potential to deliver better sound quality, it was the 8-track format that eventually dominated.
The development of the 8-track format took the basic 4-track technology and refined it, making changes designed to make the tape less likely to jam while playing, and to increase accessibility to individual selections on the tape.
The tape ends in a Stereo-Pak are not connected by a splice made of a conductive material — as are the later "automatic" switching 8-track cartridges. 4-track cartridge players had to be switched manually between programs 1 & 2 by a lever on the machine.
This is a 4-track cartridge.
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[b]Notice the difference between a 4 & 8-track
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