Ford Truck shop tunes

[Sharkdance]

Had a working AM/FM stereo 8 Track out of my 72 F100 donor truck so I mounted it under the shelf in my shop/garage.
Hooked it to a battery with an automatic trickle charger and it works just fine.
Now I have genuine Ford approved tunes in the shop/garage.

[FORDification]

Hey, as long as it works!

I've got a Ford truck antenna hooked up to the stereo in my shop.

[19674x4]

can you say 'garage sale special' thats what i got am/fm tape deck.

[hardtailjohn]

A clean shop is a sure sign of a sick mind!!! I may have to look around and see if I have one of those somewhere... I know I still have some CW McCall 8 tracks floating around here...
John H.

[FORDification]

Here's mine:



I've got three big older house speakers along this back wall...two up high and one down low. Here's a closeup of the decks...just a $13 garage-sale tuner (which actually is pretty powerful) and a $75 on-sale CD-player from Sears I picked up about 12 years ago.



Don't know how much longer the CD player will last in this dirty environment though. You can see all the dust residue caused from my less-than-airtight indoor sandblast booth. However, within the next week or two I'm setting up an older Pentium II computer there so I can just put a boatload of MP3s on the hard drive and listen for hours. I WILL have to rig up some sort of dust shield for that, though.

[black70cs]

I have my old "Technics" receiver and my linear tracking turntable in my garage, That I bought in 1980. Sometimes I feel like hearing some of my old records when I'm working on the truck. Thats the fun of it, Make what you got work.
Charlie

[72hiboy4x4]

I just have on old boombox we bought years ago sitting on a shelf near the rafters to keep it out of the way. servicable and FREE!

[ak-1970-360]

I got my old CD player on the bench. I hardley ever use my side of the shop though. I got the dirt floor and crappy lights, but when i am in there that ol cd player is cranked with David Allan Coe or Waylon Jennings. Nothin like a little outlaw country to wrench to. Lucky for me thats what we play at the shop to

[Chasbod]

Sharkdance,

How 'bout opening up those big 'ol 8 track cases and give us a pic of your 8 track labels?

I'm a bit melancholy about getting rid of my 8 track stuff. Had all the original ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, BTO, Bad Co. releases. Rock on!

[Sharkdance]

Sharkdance,

How 'bout opening up those big 'ol 8 track cases and give us a pic of your 8 track labels?

Heh, you noticed those huh?
Well, its actually kinda funny how I came to own all those 8 tracks and those "big 'ol cases".
That 8 track player was in my donor truck and I had removed it with the intent to sell it. But I didn't know if the 8 track part of the radio worked because I didn't have any 8 tracks to try it out and I didn't wanna sell a broken player.
So I asked around at work if anyone had an 8 track tape that I could just borrow and one guy brought in those two big cases full of tapes and gave em to me.
Well I opened them up and felt like I had just struck pay-dirt.
They were full of 50s, 60s, 70s, rock, soul, and even country artists that I recognized and like. Ahhhhh the nostagia!

The very next week end I took the time to hook the 8 track player up on the bench and pop a tape into it. It worked! Perfectly!
Well, not wanting to let good music go to waste I then found room for it under my shelf and mounted it as if it were installed in one of our era trucks.
I've decided I like it. Me thinks Im gonna keep it.

To answer your question though you will have to wait till this weekend and Ill see if I can snap a pic of the cases contents.

[acemang]

You can kind of see my stereo. I even have an old reel-to-reel above it.

[Sharkdance]

Sharkdance,
How 'bout opening up those big 'ol 8 track cases and give us a pic of your 8 track labels?

Promised I would do this a while ago and never got around to doing it. Its raining today so here ya go:

[fordman]

you have a sonny and cher tape. man thats old stuff

[Sharkdance]

you have a sonny and cher tape. man thats old stuff

Yea, thats old stuff. But then again, so am I.

Kris Kristofferson, Janis Joplin, Don McLean, Engelbert Humperdinck, & Isaac Hayes; Maaaan that was good stuff.
Only thing missing is some good ole Elvis Presley and some Aerosmith, America, Doobie Brothers, & some 3Dog Night. Topped off by a little Steppin Wolf.
The tapes were given to me. Yup, old stuff all right.
Seems things were a lot easier back when they were harder.

[fordman]

your not that old. i have don mclean aerosmith and stepenwolf as well as other 8 tracks. i have cactus and james gang several others. those were my uncles.