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Car vinyl (1960)

In the late 1950s through the 1960s, you could order automobile record players as a factory option. There were also aftermarket models. It seems that most of them were for 45s, not 33 RPM LPs, so you'd only get a single song before needing to switch the record it had a changer, per post from [email protected] below. But I found photos of 33 RPM in-car players too, so there must have been a few of those.

Here is a 1961 model,

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jqubedreply
lemmy.world

That’s a problem I very rarely had with car CD players

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lemmy.world

By the time that car CD players became a thing, that was pretty much a solved problem.

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valarreply
lemmy.ca

Built-in car CD players, yes. My Discman with the cassette adapter? Not so much

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Cassette adapters were so clutch, in the early iPod days, it was better to have a car with a cassette player than a CD player

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I still have my "Jogging" diskman that has 45s of anti-skip buffer. Yes, you can really go jogging with it.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Sorry, but I feel an irrepressible urge to point out that your nickname has a conjugation mistake. It should be "TuEsUnePommeDeTerre" (2nd person : "tu es", 3rd person "elle/il est")

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Thanks, I hate how the records are stacked on top of each other.

I only have a few records I care about, but I'm still paranoid about dust and scratches.

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