Pluggers by Rick McKee for February 27, 2019

oh, those were the days afore CDs as well as iPod adaptors (I bet there are pluggers much older than me who miss eight tracks)

Best thing about the old electronics …. it’s paid for already !

But you can still buy them.

wait a minute……what about the 8-track?

My favorite George Strait song.

Our Kia has a CD player, with a Reverse button. No idea what it does.

love those analog-tuned radios, too

I have two drawers of those tapes. Anyone interested in them? Free – shipping and handling added(minimal)

Our “newest” car has one, and the console between the seats is stuffed with cassettes. The older one just has the AM/FM radio.

yeah you need a cassette of George Strait, because “country” won’t play him any more. You know your too POP when The King of Country gets no play. Shame.

I remember when you could get an adapter so your am only car radio would pick up fm stations. Also when a luxury option was an inbetween-the-front-seats record player (to be used when parked or when you drove on really smooth roads). And I remember really smooth roads.

When my dad died we inherited his Grand Caravan. A radio, plus a tape player and a CD player. My “new” car only has a CD player. I am NOT rebuilding my entire music collection every time somebody has a new idea.

My Datsun 2liter convertible had a weird vertical radio -AM only.

My son drives it, but I still own it. :-)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBf16B5vhs

And a plugger is any of the few people in the country who still call those cities “Frisco” and “San Antone.”

Nothing like listening to George Strait.

The problem was that 8 track tape cartridges use foam pressure pads to hold the tape tightly against the heads, but the foam in the pads breaks down and flattens with age (don’t we all) which makes the tape get so loose that it eventually gets tangled up in the machine, ruining the cassette.

Say hey to the home of pro football, Arnie, Fred Roger’s Center & St. V.

I had a car for a short time that had an inbuilt cassette player. It was great when the weather was decent but I didn’t trust my tapes in the car in hot or cold weather.

I don’t have a cassette player in my car, but as a devotee of the cassette I do write a series called The Cassette Chronicles for a website and I have a lot of fun/get aggravated at the music I missed out on back in the day.

My “classic toy” in the back of the garage has one. Originally it didn’t have even a radio (somewhere I have the original window sticker). I heard a horrible rumor!! New cars only have a place to plug your cell phone for ‘infotainment’, not even a cd player!