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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   
      
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