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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | I received the email below through WPC Club Email, if anyone is interested please contact the person directly by the Email link below.
- Ian
Nancy Chapin
Primary Email: nlchapin6820@gmail.com
I have 34 Highway Hi Fi records for sale if anyone is interested. |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | She just sent me a list of the records as follows
# Cat # Subject
2 CR 4 Romantic Moods by Percy Faith & Orch
2 CR 5 Music of Cole Porter/Music of Victor Herbert
2 CR 7 Music until Midnight/ Music from Hollywood
1 CR 8 I Love Paris/ Holiday in Rome - Michel Legrand
1 CR 11 Columbia Hall of Fame/The Dancing Sound
1 CR 12 Famous Operettas/Symph Serenade
1 CR 13 Swing and Sway/Dreamy moods - Sammy Kaye
1 CR 23 Carmen
1 CR 34 Melodies from Broadway/Melodies from Hollywood - Lee Raine
1 CR 35 Continental Favorites/American Favorites - Lee Raine
1 CR 36 For your Listening Pleasure - Lee Raine
1 CR 37 Columbia Album of George Gershwin
1 CR 38 The Columbian Album of Jerome Kern
1 CR 39 The Columbian Album of Richard Rodgers
1 CR 40 The Columbian Album of Cole Porter.
1 JR 1 Disney: Davy Crockett/ Champion Gene Autry
1 JR 29 Goldilocks & 3 bears/Pet3er Rabbit - Gene Kelly
1 Mme="1947">R 16 Kismet
2 MR 1 Tchaikovsky, Symph #6/ Borodin: Poloviatsian Dances
2 MR 2 The Pajama Game
2 MR 6 1st Quartette & Bernard Shaw's DON JUAN IN HELL
1 MR 17 House of Flowers - Original Broadway cast
1 MR 18 Kiss Me Kate - Original cast
1 MR 19 Beethoven: Symph #5
1 MR 20 Scherherazade/ Capriccio Espagnol, etc - Rimsky-Korsakov
2 MR 21 Gaite Parisiennne Ballet/Chopin: Les Sylphides
1 MR 41 My Fair Lady - original cast
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| What a ridiculous fiasco the Highway HiFi was, a unique 16 RPM with no software, and the music selection they did eventually offer sucked the Big One. iTunes is so much better and the iPod is real HiFi. |
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Location: Blythewood, SC | While I agree that modern MP3 is much better (although iTunes and Apple are lousy tech) you really can't compare 55 year old records. If you have a rare and expensive Hiway HiFi, you need something to play on it. |
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Location: Houston | Number One reason to go with HiWay HiFi - No Justin Bieber! |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | It's not to difficult to convert the HiWay HiFi from 16 to 45 rpm - then you have a "modern" record player.
Those records would be awsome to have for a HiWay HiFi player in an early FL. |
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| wizard - 2015-03-31 9:17 AM
It's not to difficult to convert the HiWay HiFi from 16 to 45 rpm - then you have a "modern" record player.
Those records would be awsome to have for a HiWay HiFi player in an early FL.
When you get right down to it, the HiWay HiFi player is the first analog compact disc unit. The records were 16-2/3rpm so that you could get a decent amount of time/music out of one side of one record (driver distraction an all that).
Chrysler was really their own worst enemy when it came to the HiWay HiFi. When it was under development, the engineers working on it developed damping mounts specifically for the car they were provide (IIRC, a '55 Plymouth). Once the unit was released for production Chrysler figured it was like any other accessory and one size fit all. So when the assembly plants started putting them in Chrysler & DeSoto they didn't work. An irate engineer from Chrysler called the developers complaining bitterly that the units didn't work. Once this guy found out what Chrysler was doing his reply was simply "Of course they don't work, they weren't designed to work in those cars!". All of which spawned a hasty development program to come up with the damping system for each size and style of car.
So, while it's great to get one on ebay or whatever, having it is only half the battle. Having the correct damping system is the other half. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Seems strange to me that the HighWay HiFi would work in a less comfortable ride than in the more comfortable cars, especially the 57 and up.
Any which way, I made the dampers for my RCA AP-1 and they work just perfect - no rocket science to it, so I guess that the dampers in the HighWay HiFi can be restored and improved as well.
All information about those old record players are most interesting and I thank you for sharing that info.
Do you have any information about if there were different versions of the HighWay HiFi for the Mopar brands? |
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| It seems there were different brackets for adapting the same Highway HiFi's to each of the different models because the dash-firewall geometries differed. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | I could buy that, the inclination of a car mounted record player is extremely important for a good reliable operation, especially for the record changers. |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | PS, the seller will ONLY sell these as a LOT, and is not interested in selling individual records or a few. |
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| Jay Leno once said he has more money than brains. |
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34 Highway Hi Fi records for sale
