In car 8 Track Cartridge Players.

[restoman]

Anyone take a guess as to when they first appeared?

About '66 ???

(I'm actually old enough to remember this but, with age, my memory is not what it once was..........)

[lowdrag]

Have a look here:-

http://www.8trackheaven.com/early.html

[Sporting Bear]

I think that gives an Americain perspective I don't think 8-tracks were over here until the 70's but I don't think I even saw one in a car that I can remember until classic car shows

But then I got my first old banger before passing my driving test in 1977 and lived on a rough council estate so didn't see upmarket cars and by then it was all cassettes

ETA: I'm 47 (and two months)

Edited by Sporting Bear on Tuesday 25th September 16:00

[restoman]

lowdrag said:

Have a look here:-

http://www.8trackheaven.com/early.html

Excellent, thanks.

So if the States had them in the early to mid 1960s then I reckon late 1960s is about right for this side of the pond.

[Graham-P]

I bought a TR4A around '74 and istalled an 8 track in that. I remember that it was a toss up between the music cassette or the 8 track player, decided that the music cassette would never catch on!!!

[restoman]

Graham-P said:

I bought a TR4A around '74 and istalled an 8 track in that. I remember that it was a toss up between the music cassette or the 8 track player, decided that the music cassette would never catch on!!!

Yeah, who'd have thought that the compact, easy to store, cheap to produce music cassette would catch on in favour of those big bulky unreliable 8 track cartridges?

[Sporting Bear]

IIRC Phillips cassettes were not originally intended for music they were for dictating machines

So don't feel so bad even mighty corporations can miss the blindingly obvious and a way of making lots of money

ETA: IIRC

Edited by Sporting Bear on Wednesday 26th September 17:23

[Gregor Marshall]

If anyone wants some 8Tracks or in car 8Track players I have quite a few!!