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|    Les Cargill to Mower B. Yard    |
|    Re: What's in Your 8-Track Machine right    |
|    07 Feb 20 21:30:25    |
      From: lcargill99@comcast.com              Mower B. Yard wrote:       > On 2/4/20 8:00 AM, The old geezer wrote:       >> My 8-trak died around 1975 or so......       >>       >       > They were unreliable tape decks, often skipping. I had one until about       > 1978? There was a shift to cassette at some point but I can't remember       > the year.       >              It started before '78. The Pioneer Supertuner KP-500 cassette       was probably '75/'76 but the Internet is no help at all.              > In my rusted out '69 Firebird passed down from older brothers. I bought       > Jensen speakers for the back window, and a louder amp, forget the brand       > but whatever was popular then.              Heh. Jimmy's Bisshchen Camaro :)              I installed it all myself with help from       > my brothers, they were total gear heads. Cars were always being modified       > back in those days, it was easier.       >       > I fell in love with music in the back seat of a car at high volume, and       > high on weed.       >              I fell in love with it with the Carpenter's Greatest Hits, Karen       Carpenter singing "Superstar" in front of a Magnavox console stereo       from the early 1960s.              --       Les Cargill              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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