Sometimes, it's best not to know where your car is.....

Ever get the feeling that your're really retarded and that everyone is just humoring you?

 

LOL that would be "WANSON" which is my last name hahaha

 

HA that is the funniest story I have heard in quite a while! "...say isn't that my old OH MY GOD!" hahaha

 

I get that feeling every day from the way my kids look at me to my employees at work

 

The "wanson-watson"thing is great,thats VERY george!

 

Know that feeling you get when you realize you've leaned back to far in a chair?

I feel like that all the time.

 

the record players were available as a rare option for them, the low rider bomb guys pay top dollars for those things, they used special records that played at higher speeds then normal,to prevent the skipping problem. the records are more rare then the players. as far as the hat, ehhh fruit of the loom called, the grape guy wants it back please .

 

The 45 rpm record players were not as rare as you might think. At least not back then. I know several friends who had them in their cars. They played the ordinary 45 rpm records.
Drive carefully to avoid skipping.
I think they used a heavy tone-arm spring that wore records quickly. You had to change diamond needles regularly, or the sound went downhill. When the tracking got bad and the record skipped, it was common to tape pennies to the arm for more weight to prevent skipping, then records wore out even faster.

Most were simply thrown in the trash when the much higher quality 8-track players came out. Then everyone had under-dash 8-tracks installed.

Later you could even buy an FM converter that looked like an 8-track tape so you could pick up the very few FM stations that could be found. Just plug the FM converter in the player as if it was an 8-track tape, and hopefully find a station close enough to come in.
Then it would play FM over the 8-track players sound system.
Most of the time, we would leave the FM "stoner" long play album music, and go back to pulling in the AM radio stations from far away to hear the better songs and better stations like WLS Chicago (300 miles away) who played top 40 at a higher speed to get in more songs per hour and to sound lively, and KXOK St Louis (current 1960's top 40), and far away 1200 WOAI Texas (1960's top 40 and late 1950's oldies).
In the AM radio you could hear the buzzing power lines overhead, an ocaisional pop-pop-pop when an old pickup with bad plug wires drove by, and the speakers buzzed loudly when you drove by a neon sign, but what the AM radio brought to you was of more value than the 4 or 5 overplayed records you had which warped badly if you rolled up the windows and locked the car in the summer, and was of more value than the "reefer music" you found on the rare FM stations, so the AM radio was used far more than anything else... until 8-tracks took hold later on.


I only knew TWO people who thought those strange pipe-organ rear deck speakers were cool enough to put in their cars.

 

I still have one of those fm converters here somewhere. also an eight track player that still works. I believe i even have one of the adaptors that played the "wave of the future" high tech cassettes. the record players are pretty rare now, probably because of them being trashed like you said.