What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)

[DILLARD000]

Whoever originally designed 8TrackTapes (Japan in the 1960s?)
truely had an evil twisted soul !!!

 

[marsels]

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[Roert42]

Changed the shocks. 70k miles was not kind on the originals.

We will see how the ride is tomorrow morning.

Rides like a truck again, as opposed to a trampoline.

 

[Curious Hound]

All kidding aside, where they chickens? Or canaries?

Some kind of African swallows.

 

[Rick W]

I also still have the Sound Design 8-track I added as a component to my Panasonic Quadrasonic (4 channel) amp that I bought in Nyrobi, Kenya in 1977. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Note the joy stick top left to adjust the balance of the 4 speakers/channels.

I definitely hear the beat of a different drummer. It’s just before the huge KA CHUNK on the third track of my Carly Simon tape.

 

[Rick W]

Whoever originally designed 8TrackTapes (Japan in the 1960s?)
truely had an evil twisted soul !!!

In the 1960s (1950s?), GM actually made both 45 and 78LP record payers for cars. High end 57 eldorado had a recording record player for biz execs. The passenger seat faced backwards for the secretary and had a typewriter built in.

The 8-track was the quantum leap forward in technology that made recorded music in cars practical. It also let you listen to selections from “both sides” without starting all over or flipping the record. Fisher tried to make a record player that would repeat tracks and/or play tracks at random, actually produced some, but they never really worked.

Think of the 8-track like Susan Oliver’s Role in the reworked Star Trek pilot “The Menagerie.” When her keeper-aliens put her together, they had nothing to go by and she was a mess. But everyone who saw her thought she was gorgeous, an allusion created by the aliens (aka marketing and sales ;-) ).

And yes, I still have a turn table and a lot of vinyl. Had to replace the 4-channel in about 2,000 cuz I couldn’t get needles, but I still have it!

 

[Rick W]

afterthought: the ignition control computer in the lowest end car you can buy today is more sophisticated and powerful the the computers we used to send man to the moon in the 1960s. & they weighed dozens of pounds!

 

[Naddanme]

Rides like a truck again, as opposed to a trampoline.

true story

 

[Bgunner]

Installed a duel power port into the ranger since my cigarette lighter wont keep anything plugged in to it. I now have a place to plug things in to get power and every bump I hit no longer ejects my phone charger.

 

[racsan]

I used to have a triple set of 12v outlets run off the lighter circuit. radar detector, cell phone charger & a garmin. Never had any issues.

 

[Zmans]

Highlight of the day, installed vanilla dash cover.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

What is scrap paying there? I get a fair amount of both aluminum and steel.

Steel is up to $10 per hundred for shredder/tin but aluminum cans are only 50 cents a pound

 

[Curious Hound]

Highlight of the day, installed vanilla dash cover.

I have NEVER had the urge to taste my dash cover.

 

[Rick W]

I have NEVER had the urge to taste my dash cover.

Maybe he tailgates a lot...

 

[Dirtman]

I have NEVER had the urge to taste my dash cover.

Not even when it's smothered in a delicious clam chowdah?

My dash definitely has bite marks in it...