Q: I have a box full of 8-track tapes. Do they still make and sell 8-track players? If so, what would be your recommendation, and where can someone purchase one? A: Believe it or not, yours is the ...

Later on, many manufacturers made a play for 8-track tapes, but Learjet started the craze. This ad shows an underdash Lear Jet Stereo 8 player in what looks like a 1965 Dodge Coronet, complete with ...

Call it the kitsch of death. When you think back, the 8-track tape was the music equivalent of the middle finger. It was a punk. It was skateboarding on the sidewalk, shoplifting at Woolworth’s stupid ...

If you have a lot of legacy media floating around—LPs, cassette tapes, CDs, MP3s on USB drives, and the like—you’d be hard-pressed to find a more convenient product to play it or digitize the analog ...

What was the worst thing about the 70s? Some might say the oil crisis, inflation, or even disco. Others might tell you it was 8-track tapes, no matter what was on them. I’ve heard that the side of the ...

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that plays ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the 8-track player became a symbol of modernity and innovation in the automobile industry. Detroit automakers, synonymous with the American car revolution, embraced this ...