DYNAMITE 8 TRACK PLAYER
KA-BOOM !!!!
The panasonic RQ-830S Dynamite 8 Track Tape Player was introduced in 1974.
It came in detonator red, bomb blue, explosion yellow but there is also a white and transparant version. It is very easy to use, as Panasonic wrote down in their advertising:
"Slide in the tape. Out booms the music from an explosive-sounding dynamic speaker. Then push the plunger to change your channel and to change your tune."
You can thus only change the volume and push the plunger to change your favorite song. Although its limited features, this 8 Track Player was considered to be one of the most innovative track players, also because of its design.
It works on batteries but also an adaptor is available.
Thereby, it was possible to take your music along with you, like in your car, on the street, on the beach ...
The price range is very wide, although the price at which people want to sell their 8-track player. On ebay for example, an asking price of nearly 150€ is quite common. However, I also found them on the internet priced between 80€ and 100€. At this price, all of the 8-track players have been sold. So this would be according to my opinion a fair price for this nice piece of history.