MikeWhitney wrote:
gmail.com
I bet you still listen to music on 8-track tapes too, right?
Didn't you hate how 8-tracks would split a song in two.. the music would stop, then it would wind to the end, reverse, then pick up the song where it left off? Of course, it was not much of a problem for me, since my folks never considered wasting my college fund on extravagances such as 8-track tape players, or a record player.
However, I did install an 8-track in a high school friend's new '76 Firebird one Saturday morning. At first I had trouble finding the factory speaker wires to splice into and had taken out the glove box, part of the console and same other stuff, when his mother came home. She panicked and ran inside to grab the Polaroid to document the mess for the insurance agent. (She still reminds me of this whenever I see her.) Anyway, once I pulled out the fake-wood fascia around the instrument panel gauges, I found a nice oval hole in the dash and there were the wires leading to the dashboard speaker. With that addition, my friend had the best ride at Durham High - a new 350 Firebird with an 8-track, Midland CB and PA speaker tucked behind the grille.