It wasn’t John (two jags) Prescott was it ? 
Can’t recall name. Was in Dallas Texas.
Sorry , It was a joke , Very much U.K. orientated but as you are in the U.S.A. it would not have been know to you.
This is what I was referring to.
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They look fabulous.
There is a solution to the reliability.
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Captain Beefheart!
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Required Jaguar accessory, either this or drop a Chevrolet tuned port engine into it. And a proper cassette player.
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The Captain on 8 track now that’s what I call a collector’s item!
Do you happen to remember which album?
I believe “Unconditionally Guaranteed” and “Bluejeans & Moonbeams”. The only reason I was buying 8-tracks was because the player came with the used car I bought. It was hard finding music I liked…
I once briefly worked for a Muntz franchise. You can rewind 8-tracks manually and i fixed some. Problem was uneven tension between the reels.
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Ah, the “commercial” albums 
Yeah, probably why I found them on 8-track. I do happen to have all his stuff on vinyl though.
Did someone mention a 8 track recorder?
Saw this in an antique store this morning, no I didn’t ask if it worked or buy it…lol
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Aren’t you supposed to be working? 
Nope…all still cancelled now until 8/21.
And I’m officially on vacation next week anyway so I’m getting pretty relaxed 
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Yep. And as best I can remember the one I had looked pretty similar. I recorded lots of albums and concerts off the radio back in the early 1970s. Back then FM radio was the pulse of rock music, especially in the NYC area. WNEW and WPLJ were the two main stations.
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My (limited) experience of an 8-Track was that it was completely reliable and sounded good, but I couldn’t be bothered, nor afford, to double up on a load of vinyl just so as to be able to play stuff in the car. So it got replaced by a cassette deck playing home-taped albums and mixes. Tapes getting eaten was pretty rare though not unknown.
@AceRimmer you were unlucky with your Austin 1100, which was probably the last British volume car to have been both well designed, stylish and (by 60s standards) reliable.
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I really think I was lucky tbh.
It was the equivalent value of £60 which even in 1977 was dirt cheap and it had been heavily used and abused.
That 1100 got us to London and back twice from Nottingham which when I look back is nothing short of miraculous…lol.
Talking about Austin’s .
When I was learning to drive , a friend and I were planning to go to the BMF motorcycle show at Peterborough and he suggested instead of going on our bikes I drive. So it was a 300 mile round trip in his austin princess . About 50 miles before we got to the bmf the exhaust fell off so for the remainder of the trip it was as loud as f)/((/ . I tried to drive in higher gears as much as possible to keep the noise down.
It was excellent practice and I passed my test. All the more memorable for that exhaust falling off.
Sadly about 10 years later he had a heart attack while riding his bike and was killed . R.I.P. Bill
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