I mostly remember the audio systems for the family cars that drifted into my hands (a 69 Ford Ranch Wagon, a 73 AMC Hornet, as well as a 75 Dodge Colt that I bought myself in college). The cars almost always had AM radio, no stereo - so the first step was the FM converter (bolted under the dash or in the glove box, wired into the radio antenna receptacle). Eventually one would buy an AM/FM stereo radio and spend an afternoon hacking up the door panels and/or rear window deck installing speakers and running speaker wires. I never owned a car with an 8-Track but got cassette decks eventually - we kept our cassettes in an old wine box) I worked in a package (liquor) store in college. My brother passed away last spring; we found this in his apartment relatively untouched from that era, although he was a bit younger so the cassettes are more 80s. He also had all of his old home stereo equipment squirreled away, including the first speakers I ever bought (Realistic, behind the milk crate of vinyl, I remember bringing them home on the back rack of my 10 speed), I must have passed them along to him and he held onto them. Not worth much but interesting to remember.
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