Vinyl on-the-go
Posted by David Hepworth on 21 March 2008 - 7:13am.
Believe it or not there was a time when not every car came with a CD/radio combo. Even I can remember opening the dashboard pocket to find an aerial lead to which one had to attach a transistor radio. But Heath Robinson himself would have seen the flaw in this in-car record player. Stability for a start. It would take a very understanding traffic police to accept your explanation that you were just trying to play the flip side of your Sandie Shaw single when he nicked you for driving without due care and attention. But it made me wonder: has anyone ever had experience of a comparably strange for of in-car entertainment?
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in car vinyl
An acquaintance of mine had an old Sunbeam Rapier which had a player for 7 inch vinyl. It sounded OK when the car was stationary, but was predicably jumpy on the move. There must have been a hell of a lot of pressure on the stylus to keep it in the grooves, so I imagine the wear and tear on the records was huge.
Brick cassette players
State of the art in the car they were, but the decade from the end of the eighties you'd walk into the pub and there would be half-a-dozen weighty cassette mechanisms by Blaupunkt or Kenwood on the table. Then some bright spark realised that the half-a-stone of metal could stay in the car providing you could take the fascia off...