Period radios..

[FredTransit]

Any pics of Nakamichi?Those tapes can be bought from Poundland (for a pound).

What, with an inbuilt MP3 player? You sure you are not thinking of an adapter you plug a CD player into? This thing is self contained, and looks like a cassette when put in the machine.

[Jozza]

How's this for period in-car entertainment? Found under the floorboards of the boot of the 1948 Standard Twelve (along with some confetti [?] and a 2-stroke model aeroplane motor [?]):

 

 

 

 

It's a 1940s Radiomobile/HMV valve radio complete with four-position all-mechanical channel recall function. It's made of bakelite, brass and steel and weighs about 14 Lbs. Of course being a valve radio it makes the glorious 'zzzzzzzhhhhhhmmmmmmmm' noise as it warms up and then just as Radio 4 Long Wave splutters into life it runs the battery down (since it draws far too much current for a 1940s-spec dynamo to cope). The external amplifier unit takes up all the parcel shelf space as well.

[Pete-M]

That is cool as! It's a 1940's clunkomatic version of the Pioneer

[worldofceri]

"four-position all-mechanical channel recall function"Wow. That's amazing. Who needs RDS?

[dollywobbler]

Bit late to this one. My Subaru had a tape deck, so I got all my ten year old compilation tapes out. It was great! Forgot I owned so much cool music and I then got to raid the charity shops to top up the collection.

[Minimad5]

Jozza that radio is fantastic :)Thanks for uploading the pictureSo Pete, are you any closer to a decision ?

[Station]

I downloaded Now That's What I Call Music volumes 1 - 60 (basically 1984 - 2000), and put on the IPod for the car and can only recall about 15% of the tunes on there. Also, the modern stuff is fucking shite. At least in the 80's pop bands didn't sing about looooooove you all the time.