[gto19]

I found this little guy in my glove box . 67 gto

Can anyone tell me what it is ?

[Jonsie]

Looks like maybe some residue on that razor blade, someone was doin' some lines with it years ago?

[gto19]

Originally Posted by Jonsie

Looks like maybe some residue on that razor blade, someone was doin' some lines with it years ago?

That was me yesterday. The whole car is torn apart now

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by gto19

That was me yesterday. The whole car is torn apart now

omg
HahahaHAHAhaHaha

[Half-Inch Stud]

ebay!

[mlewisariz]

That is an adapter to put into a 4-track tape cartridge so it will play in an 8-track player.

[gto19]

Originally Posted by mlewisariz

That is an adapter to put into a 4-track tape cartridge so it will play in an 8-track player.

Wow !! Thanks

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by mlewisariz

That is an adapter to put into a 4-track tape cartridge so it will play in an 8-track player.

That practically sounds believable to my youthful ears.
Are you bullshanking us ??

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Baron Von Zeppelin

That practically sounds believable to my youthful ears.
Are you bullshanking us ??

That is what it is. Adapter from 4 track to 8 track. I haven't seen one of those for 40 years. The AR logo stands for Automatic Radio.

[FrankieT/A]

I had a 4 Track house player. It was the Beta Max of the day. Someone has to lose...

[camerjeff]

I could have used that in the 1970's, the 63 Bonneville I owned then had a 4-Track player. It only came with 3 Tapes and I didn't like 2 of them. I could have played all my 8-tracks in it. Never knew they existed.

[TinInjun]

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by camerjeff

I could have used that in the 1970's, the 63 Bonneville I owned then had a 4-Track player. It only came with 3 Tapes and I didn't like 2 of them. I could have played all my 8-tracks in it. Never knew they existed.

It was the other way around - that adapter let you listen to 4 tracks in an 8 track player.


I still have the Automatic Radio 8 track player I got for Christmas as a teenager (I had it in my '61 Catalina back then) and now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure it came with one of those Gidget gadgets in the box.

[gto19]

This is pretty cool .
Maybe you can post a picture of it . I can tell something was mounted on the carpet right in front of the 4 speed shifter. My car still has the original carpet,

Thanks guys

Originally Posted by Stuart

It was the other way around - that adapter let you listen to 4 tracks in an 8 track player.


I still have the Automatic Radio 8 track player I got for Christmas as a teenager (I had it in my '61 Catalina back then) and now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure it came with one of those Gidget gadgets in the box.

[gto19]

I found this ad on eBay . I’m thinking that device was mounted in my car in front of the 4 speed . ...I could be wrong though

One more thing I see . This product is from Massachusetts.. that’s where my car came from and was built in Framingham

[Stuart]

It's sort of a curiosity today, but not worth much or collectible unless you happen to have some 4 track tapes sitting around. They were a pretty short fad that pretty much went away about five minutes after 8 tracks were introduced.

For those who have never seen one, unlike an 8 track where you stuck it into a slot on the front, a 4 track cartridge sort of sat on top of the player.

Muntz was the main brand, this is a picture of their player:

Originally Posted by gto19

I found this ad on eBay . I’m thinking that device was mounted in my car in front of the 4 speed . ...I could be wrong though

One more thing I see . This product is from Massachusetts.. that’s where my car came from and was built in Framingham

Besides the Gidget, the other things in the ad you posted actually would slide into the slot on an 8 track player so you could listen to the radio, if you didn't already have one in your car - back then most cars didn't have FM, and quite a few didn't have radios at all.

My Automatic Radio 8 track player looked like this. It mounted under the dash on a heavy steel bracket, and was removable; you'd take it out of the car so people couldn't steal it. I imagine they had other models that did mount on the trans tunnel.



My first job out of engineering school was at a company that built the recording and playback tape heads that went inside 8 track players. By the time I got there, 8 tracks were basically dead and they had moved on to building the heads that went in computer hard drives and floppy disk drives, but we still had a ton of old 8 track stuff sitting around. My job was designing and building the automated manufacturing and testing machines used to make the heads, and we would store the machine programs on 8 track tapes - when you walked through the production area, every machine or console had a 8 track player sticking out of the front panel. I always thought it was pretty funny.

[Sidponcho]

Originally Posted by gto19

I found this ad on eBay . I’m thinking that device was mounted in my car in front of the 4 speed . ...I could be wrong though

One more thing I see . This product is from Massachusetts.. that’s where my car came from and was built in Framingham

Melrose, MA - 12 minutes from where I'm sitting right now Apartment buildings now

[camerjeff]

[QUOTE=Stuart;6083827]It was the other way around - that adapter let you listen to 4 tracks in an 8 track player.


Got it, would not have helped me at all unless I only wanted to listen to that Buddy Holly 4-track. The other 2 were late 50's Country that I didn't care for.

[mlewisariz]

4-track cartridges had a hole in the bottom and when placed in the player you pulled or pushed a lever that rotated the driven wheel into the capstan thereby advancing the tape. Also, 4-tracks had only 2 channel pickups and 2 programs on each tape, while 8-tracks were 4 channel w/ 4 programs and the driven wheel was built into the cartridge

[TAKerry]

That thing is cool! Never heard of such a thing, didn't even know they made 4 track cartridges!! It should be in a museum. Cant be more than one of them out there by now.