Pure nostalgia: In car entertainment 1980s style

[Derventio]

Just been sent a link to this. Some may find it interesting, or nostalgic. Just look at the prices!

https://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argos-no21-1984-s...

[dibblecorse]

Wow,PYE and Harry Moss, proper blasts from the past, then the 90's happened it it really went mad !!!

[voram]

Derventio said:

Some may find it interesting, or nostalgic.

I hope they still come with a hexagonal Bic biro to stick in the spool and gather up the tape when the cassette's gone crazy!

[L_G]

Derventio said:

Just been sent a link to this. Some may find it interesting, or nostalgic. Just look at the prices!

https://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argos-no21-1984-s...

Argos - the laminated catalogue of dreams

[TonyRPH]

I miss those days.

For a while I was a repair tech for a company that fitted car radios, and from time to time I'd get involved with the problematic installations.

A lot of new cars didn't even have a radio back then - no speakers either, although fortunately the wiring looms were there at least.

Anyway - we fitted some real exotic stuff - the Pioneer stuff especially sounded really good and had a great feel to the controls etc.

[LuS1fer]

I had that Sharp unit bottom right.
Good little player.

[Piersman2]

You knew your set up was serious when you had a separate graphic equaliser.

[MDMA .]

dibblecorse said:

Wow,PYE and Harry Moss, proper blasts from the past, then the 90's happened it it really went mad !!!

AKA Harry Toss, as they were wk! I still have my old Alpine head unit. Just got it out the wardrobe now.

[A Winner Is You]

Piersman2 said:

You knew your set up was serious when you had a separate graphic equaliser.

I remember the posher Fords had that, as well as a fade/balance joystick to really lord it over the LX driving peasants. My friend's dad had a car (think it was a Mercedes) with controls by the steering wheel. He used to tell us he had a haunted radio that would turn itself up or down if you asked it nicely, this being a time where voice activation was something from a sci-fi movie.

[Miserablegit]

Best car hifi I recall was in a friend's father's Volvo 740 GLE. The tape deck in that was superb - Night of the Guitars blasting out - the guitars sounded superb. Lesley West playing Theme...

Not sure if it was just the size of the car but the quality of the reproduction was excellent. The Jaguar he had later wasn't a patch on it. We thought we were cool anyway rocking up to a wine bar as 18 year olds in what was clearly Daddy's jag!

[Drive Blind]

LuS1fer said:

I had that Sharp unit bottom right.
Good little player.

My dad had that one too - in fact he might still have it.

[Wish]

Though I had won in life when I got myself a set of pioneer 1088’s and an amp to run them.

[Deranged Rover]

My recent vehicular purchase is from 1995 and has an Alpine stereo with removable fascia. I had to go onto eBay and buy a special carry case for it for when I take it out of the car with me as the original case is long gone!

Talk about a trip down memory lane…

[P5BNij]

Apologies for the crap image quality - this is a much modified 1970 Mk2 Cooper S that I went to look at back in 1999, it's thought the triple stacked ICE gear was installed in the '80s or '90s....

[belleair302]

Pioneer or Alpine for me back then.

[DoctorX]

Or a Nakamichi.

No idea if they sounded good, they just looked cool.

[shih tzu faced]

Didn't the 80s Renault (Alpine) GTA have a huge graphic equalizer that took up most of the centre console?

[maddog993]

Weren't Kenwood known as Trio back then - they always used to get great reviews, along with Alpine & Clarion.

[DoctorX]

maddog993 said:

Weren't Kenwood known as Trio back then - they always used to get great reviews, along with Alpine & Clarion.

Another cool one:

[shih tzu faced]

^^ Essex Lotus Esprit?