The Mustang TV

[Eric H]

This Wards set is basically the same

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=3638

as these other two:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2447700218

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2444456021

Whaddya think, paint it black and make $2000?

Dats re-dick-you-less. I bet most of the value is due to the bracket itself.

What's most suspicious though, is that both ads have almost the same wording and use the exact same photo of the TV hanging on the seat (maybe that's from a Mustang brochure)

Sounds like there's a market there but I bet they shilled the price up to that level.

Anthony

[Rob]

That's a pretty stupid accessory IMO! Were you supposed to sit in the back seat with your fat belly covering the screen and be able to watch it less than a foot from your eyes?

Why didn't they do a special with SpeedQueen and offer up a washer dryer pair to fit the back seat?

Did'ja ever see the crock pot slow cooker that hung from the rear bumper and hooked up to the tailpipe? Saw it in an old Popular Mechanics. By the time you got to the cottage your goose was cooked, er the stew was ready.

I think I know why they put the TV back there............for those live feeds of when the Hertz car renter was dropped into the car he could watch his progress on the set!

Damn, am I that old to remember those commercials?

Anthony

[Charlie]

Being that a Mustang is somewhat small, i'm sure that the back seat doesn't have that much leg room to begin with. It would kinda be like the back seat of my Duster... if you're older than 14, you probably won't be comfortable in the back.

Even for a kid in the back seat... that TV would be way too close.

As far as dealer installed options goes, there was one other i've seen that just didn't seem feasible. IMS, a buyer could get a 1956 or maybe 57 Dodge Coronet with a dealer installed 16 rpm record player mounted under the dash. I guess it was only used when teenagers would go "park" and the guy could play music to set the mood.

[Chad Hauris]

There were also 45 rpm record players for cars, too...I think they were designed with a lot of stylus pressure and other features so they would theoretically work while driving; have not owned one so can't tell how they really work.

For more info check this out:
http://www.imperialclub.com/Repair/A...Way/invent.htm

Anthony

[Charlie]

Anthony,

That link had an interesting story. Just think... those guys that were putting record players and TVs in cars back in the 50s and 60s are probably lookin down on us now and grinning ear to ear to see today's autos with pop-down LCD DVD players and in-dash CD players.

It was hot shit back in the 50's and 60's to have a TV set in your custom car. Radio telephones were also the ultimate, and I remember riding around in Elektra records corporate limo back in the 60's and calling home......what a treat, and one that's lost on most people today.

You had to push to talk, like a radio. The handset had a button along the inside of the handle. Remember the TV show "Cannon"? He had a phone in his Mark IV and it used to honk the horn when he was away from the car to alert him there was a call coming in. Weird stuff like that has gone away from the public's memory. Just like the cacophony of a entire room full of typewriters at a business.

Anthony (I'm so old that am now farting dust)

[Eric H]

Did the seller see this post?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=42606

C'mon, fess up, who are you?

Apparently so, but it doesn't seem to have impacted what people are willing to pay.

Hey Nomad, please don't sterilize me.

Anthony

[Eric H]

It went for $76, quite a bit more than the $15 they were selling it for originally.
Shouldn't I get a commission?

[Charlie]

This probably isn't a Mustang these two are sittin' in, and it definately isn't a Philco TV, but I guess it does give us an idea of how romantic it was supposed to be to have TV in the car back in the 60s!

I guess Sonys were more expensive back then. Maybe they're sitting in a Cadillac? They actually have plenty of room to watch TV and make out!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=3638

As a kid I had a Corgi model of a strecth mid to late 60's Lincoln limo that had a "working" TV set inside. It was actually just a small photo film strip that was lit up by a lightbulb.

Kinda hot stuff at the time (how lame it is to admit that now!)

Anthony