[Eliot Ness]

Pretty cool piece of history there!  I had my share of 8 track car decks back in the day, but never used one of those.  I'm not sure how it got power or antenna, but if you're wanting to use it as a stand-alone radio you'll need to amplify the output.  It connected to the tape head someway and used the 8 track deck to amplify and control volume, etc.

It would make a better display if you found an old 8 track car deck to plug it into, then all you'd need is 12 volts and a couple of speakers.

I have used cassette adapters to play MP3 players through a factory car cassette system.  They also fed through the tape heads but didn't need power or an antenna and they worked a lot better than I thought they would:


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