Seen today Sunday 12/05/2010 at the Tustin, CA. car show. 1960 Ford Thunderbird. This car has a working record player in it hanging from the dash in front of the p***enger seat.
gotta love those squarebirds you satrted a post about an optional record player and thier isnt even a pic of it
dig the old phones, record players, and even BLACK AND WHITE t.v.s in some of those late 50's/early 60's customs. wonder how bad the record players skipped, especially on a custom with cut or heated springs!
LOL-This car show is the first and last Sunday of each month. If the guy brings the car back later this month I'll snap a photo of the record player.
It probably was a RCA 45 record player. They were all chrome and mounted under the dash. They held 14 45's and you pushed up a stack of 45's on the spindle and they were automatically rejected after the record played. The record just dropped down on the bottom of the record player. The "turntable" was suspended on springs on the inside top of the record player. So the turntable sort of floated. The tone arm was pressed up against the 45 by its spring. They would both move in unison if the car bounced. I had one installed in my severely lowered '55 F-100 back in 1961 and I never really had any skipping problems. Yeah ... I occasionally hit a bad pot hole or bump I was not aware of and the record would skip. Later on, a company called ARC bought out he rights for this player and they sold a bunch before the 8-tack hit the scene. I have one safely stashed away in my garage as we speak.
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