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Audioline FTW!

 

For some reason, the whole page isn't showing. Is there a different way to post pics on AS mkII?

Guest Tony Hayers
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Lolz Harry Moss

 

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Still see the stickers on the windows of 80's & 90's shite even today (I doubt if the alarms are still working though)

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Ah yes.. Moss it and loss it.. lol

 

My 80's car hi-fi had "realistic" on it because I used to buy at tandy ;D

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Check out those prices , that was shit loads then

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My mate had a Harry Moss in his mum's Micra.

 

I had a few old Argos/Index catalogues from the early 90's - my ma threw them away last year. Didn't she realise I wanted to scan in some award winning shite 20 years later!!

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Haha. This is great. 8) I can almost remember those pages. I am also sad enough to consider buying old Argos catalogues!! :roll:

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I had that audioline in my Chevette! Not sure what the power output was but I remember blowing one of the front speakers listening to the Pornogratti Album by Extreme while hammering around the Oldchurch Roundabout in Romford. It was Summer 1992. Funny how that old Argos pic brought back such a vivid memory. Such is the power of the Argos laminated book of dreams!

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At £99.99 that Audioline must have been DA BOMB.

 

Last year a workmate brought some early 80s Littlewoods catalogues in to work. I liked the full page of shotguns that were available back then. :lol:

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Audioline was a cheap range in the 1980's but it was a lot of "bang for the buck".

 

The amount of loud noise my Audioline head unit (it was a model up from number 10 on this page with the graphic equaliser - might have been £150?) made was enough to hear the car coming 100's of yards away with the windows closed.

 

I think this is the actual unit here at RR : http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=69824

 

The cassette function failed not long after the warranty period expired..... :(

 

Some German twat then broke into the car and stole the defective head unit.... :evil:

 

I replaced the (stolen) Audioline in 1988 for a £400 (tax free) Kenwood head unit which had a removable chassis.

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I have a small collection of retro car stereo gear including the Audioline above and the one with the graphic equaliser built in.

 

Alos got some lovely 70's Pioneer kit that is still boxed, I'll try and grab some photos when I get a minute.

Guest Leonard Hatred
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I like the Wankel-inspired knobs on the Motorola 124.

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I had the Pye SF2120 on the parcel shelf in one of my 2cv's. It did not like being rained on. To listen to a cassette playing at near the correct speed you had to hold the FF/Eject button in slightly.

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I've got that £99.99 Audioline tape deck in my car now! I bought it last year when I had the Polo, and when toe-rags broke in, they didn't even bother to steal it

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I've got that £99.99 Audioline tape deck in my car now! I bought it last year when I had the Polo, and when toe-rags broke in, they didn't even bother to steal it

 

They left my Pye unit too! They preferred to half-inch the two-week old and equally rained on Haribo "coke bottle" sweets I'd left next to it. Philistines!

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Here's whats in my 200.

 

I have no idea what it is or if it was any good, looks expensive for 1981 though.

(apologies for the crappy pic, not mine!)

 

 

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Reading this has just made me rumage through the kitchen draw that everyone puts old broken phones and chargers in.Oh joy,I still have the Audioline 307 graphic equaliser that got wired into every stereo of every car I owned in the 80's.Green and red LED's,front to rear fader and 20 Watts of power. :D

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Heres one from 1976

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Just to give credit - I'm getting these from a post on passionford.com. I'll post more when they post more :-)

 

Edit - Still only 2/3rds of the pic shown - whats going on?!

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