Quoted from swampfire:My parents gave me an 8-track player for my car for my 16th birthday (1980). So I had to get this Sparkomatic adapter to play all my cassette tapes.
A few years ago I sold a 1978 Cadillac Eldorado to a friend of mine. It had a factory 8 track player. It had an 8 track to cassette adapter. He put one of the cassette to 1/8" headphone plug adapters into that and played his ipod through the factory 8 track player. I laughed when he told me he did that. I was blown away that it worked.