The first one I bought was Greatest Hits... on 8 track. Then the 8 track player in my '71 Lemans caught on fire, but luckily, did no damage to the interior of the car. I replaced it with a cassette deck, and started replacing my favorite 8 tracks. In 1978, I bought a Ford Van and a new Pioneer casette deck. That one got stollen, along with most of my cassettes, so I bought another and started building my collection again. I think it was in the mid '90s when I finally updated to a CD player. There was this kid at work who did custom installations, and I had the works put into my 1990 Lumina... CD player, preamp/equalizer, tweets, 4 and 6 inch speakers in the front, 6 by 9 speekers in the back, 1500 watts of amps in the trunk, along with a 12 inch subwoofer. I wasn't crazy about the sub. I usually turned it way down. But my kids loved it. I must have been in my rock n roll phase then, because I had a lot of rock compilations, which I have since given up on. The kids in town used to run over to the car and say, "Crank the stereo!" which I usually did, until I saw the cops driving down the street. I kept the stereo until last spring, when I decided it was finally time to sell the Lumina. It was 16 years old, but still a nice car. I took the stereo system out and gave it to my son. He replaced the tweets and the sub with new equipment, but otherwise, everything else is the same. The legend lives on....
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