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Mike M2 
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Posted: November 29, 2005 at 7:36 PM / IP Logged  

How long have you been doing this?

I remember drilling holes in the fender for the key switch....

I remember two radio shaft spacings, standard and import.....

I remember installing radios with one speaker....

I remember sirens that had moving parts in them...

I remember Supertuners that you added to your AM radio....

I remember aftermarket rear window defrosters...

I remember stereos with common speaker grounds...

I remember when 4 by 10's were common....

I remember when the radio didn't come out the front of the dash...

I remember when nobody had a clue what an LED was...

I remember alarm brains so strong you could drive a car over it(really!)...

I remember when 80% of alarms had a keypad on the dash...

I remember installing 8 track recorders....

I remember GM speaker hangers...

Any others?

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Posted: November 29, 2005 at 7:42 PM / IP Logged  
Yeah.....But I remember drilling a hole in the transmission of Gary Puckett ( & the Union Gap ) Limo..........1968...........OOOPPs......
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Posted: November 29, 2005 at 10:29 PM / IP Logged  
Thank god I am not that old even though it made me feel that way when I mentioned the old school pager that broadcasted through the car's radio antenna and the first response was "What is that?".
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speedwayaudio1 
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Posted: November 30, 2005 at 1:31 AM / IP Logged  

I remember installing 8 track player in my brothers ride. And a 40watt power booster. radio shack if I remember right.

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Posted: November 30, 2005 at 5:54 PM / IP Logged  
I remember those days.....Some of them were still before my time in the industry but were well within my teen years of working on stuff. Ahh yes, the fuzzy dice and shag interior days.... cheech as in peach and chong as in dong...
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Posted: November 30, 2005 at 9:42 PM / IP Logged  
.... I remember installing tape players in place of AM/FM factory decks.
.... I remember thinking that 6x9's were the $h!t and if you have a back dash full of them, you were kool
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Posted: December 01, 2005 at 6:47 PM / IP Logged  
I remember the first Command start units... the ones with one button for start, flip remote over and you got locks Do you remember ? -- posted image.
or the big ol' mosfet output units... one big old heatsink.
When you had a pull out CD player, you were the shhh...
Even better if you had an indash CD player controlling a tape changer....
Every deck was cut to fit... you had to build a lot more 15 years ago...
Digital multimeters were rare, Simpson analog VOM's weren't....
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I remember when a Craig 8 track and a pair of Mindblower 6x9's were considered "top of the line".
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Mike M2 
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Ahh, The Craig 8 track!!!!!!!
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Posted: December 03, 2005 at 3:36 AM / IP Logged  
what about the cassete to 8-track converters. you put a cassete in and play it thru your 8-track. and jensen tri-axials were high-end. and 100 watts was serious power
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