StingrayL82 wrote:
The 1976 Monaco has been upgraded to Bluetooth technology.
On another note, I found out why the original Pioneer 8-track player never worked. The guy at the Monaco assembly plant who installed it ran two brown wires, one each from the ceiling light positive yellow and negative green wires and then connected the Pioneer red and black wires to those brown wires, ultimately reversing them, so that red was negative and black was positive.
The sound from the new Bluetooth radio is way better, even though the 8-track is cooler.
Sorry, I had to laugh ... I've seen that kind of thing so often it no longer surprises me and I actually expect it.
Two people may have been involved, one making 'stub-out' connections and the other making actual device connections. (Or, vice versa). Regardless, using the same color wires for positive and negative connections always creates confusion. Add in some people who really don't know what they're doing and the result is pure frustration for people who actually have to use things.
I managed to avoid 8-tracks, largely because equipment to record them was too expensive. (Went straight from reel-to-reel to cassettes.)
