http://ookworld.com/hiwayhifi.html

http://www.uaw-chrysler.com/images/news/phono.htm

Jim

Incredible info, tanx for sharing.
Hey Jim can i use these links and post them under Defunct & Discontinued topic?

those would have been cool to see in person. wonder how they sounded without the needle skipping all over the place.

i cant think of any reason not to.

Apparently the technology was taken over by another company, Automatic Record Changer (A.R.C.) Electronics out of South Gate, CA and offered as an after-market product (guess who ahs an original brochure ). Circa 1966 list price was $99.50. There was also a lower model. Claimed that the skipping problem was solved. Company later offered a 4-Track player $119.88 w/speakers . Several years ago I stopped at an estate sale of a gentleman that owned a local auto parts store starting in the '50s. I have one of the first after-market FM car radios offered. A tube model and expensive as all heck (I believe there is thread about this). Anyway I got a number of brochures and catalogs. One of them has this very record player but they went back to the 45 format.

Congrats, you have an incredible piece of audio history in your hands. Can you please put a pic or two of that brochure here at ST just for curiosity. I find this so amazing, because i don't recall saw anything like this before in any European car model. Only in America....

As it is you asking, here it is. It is an aftermarket product.

Inside page. I don't get out to sales as often as I did. I always looked for these things and more often than not they were free or almost free.

Sure can.

Jim

For you "kids in America" maybe it's just another audio curiosity but for me was a total revelation. I never saw anything like this before.
Tanx for sharing guys.

Considering a Mac MC40 amp was $159 MSRP around the same period the player wasn't cheap.

Yes, i saw that too. Almost 100 dollars.. at that time US had a better living standards than almost any country in Europe, maybe that's why i never saw one of those things in here.

Alvaro,
for your entertainment here is a list from 1959 of foreign cars Motorola had aftermarket in-dash radios. I also have the catalog with the photo (I think, have couple from various years).

Tanx mate. Incredible stuff.
BTW, my name is Alvaro, not Jorge.

Oops, I know that but sometimes I type faster than I think, and the way I hunt and peck that's not easy!