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Jim Eck- 04-10-2009
http://ookworld.com/hiwayhifi.html

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

Jim

clint e.- 04-10-2009
Incredible info, tanx for sharing. soundt/thumbup.gif
Hey Jim can i use these links and post them under Defunct & Discontinued topic?

dingus- 04-10-2009
those would have been cool to see in person. wonder how they sounded without the needle skipping all over the place.

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Jim can i use these links and post them under Defunct & Discontinued topic?

i cant think of any reason not to.

hakka26- 04-11-2009
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 biggrin.gif ). 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 blink.gif. 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.

clint e.- 04-11-2009
Congrats, you have an incredible piece of audio history in your hands. soundt/thumbup.gif 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.... smile.gif

hakka26- 04-12-2009
As it is you asking, here it is. It is an aftermarket product.


hakka26- 04-12-2009
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.


Jim Eck- 04-12-2009
QUOTE (clint e. @ April 10, 2009 04:44 pm)
Incredible info, tanx for sharing. soundt/thumbup.gif
Hey Jim can i use these links and post them under Defunct & Discontinued topic?

Sure can.

Jim

clint e.- 04-12-2009
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.

hakka26- 04-12-2009
Considering a Mac MC40 amp was $159 MSRP around the same period the player wasn't cheap.

clint e.- 04-12-2009
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.

hakka26- 04-12-2009
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).

clint e.- 04-12-2009
QUOTE (hakka26 @ April 12, 2009 10:37 pm)
Jorge,
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. soundt/thumbup.gif
BTW, my name is Alvaro, not Jorge. wink.gif

hakka26- 04-12-2009
QUOTE (clint e. @ April 12, 2009 03:23 pm)
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Tanx mate. Incredible stuff. soundt/thumbup.gif
BTW, my name is Alvaro, not Jorge. wink.gif

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

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