As some of you have laughed at already, I have bought an old car. It has a radio cassette play but the electric ariel doesn't work so I need some tapes.
This is a TVR red wedge so Billy Bragg or similar is good. I always liked the Specials.
Where do you get cassettes from?
If anyone wants the radio it is for sale
charity shops?
under peoples' beds?
Better off buying a CD/MP3 player for it surely?
None in charity shops - I tried
I am going to convert the Wedge into a 50's sports car so don't want to spend on the interior until I get the new shell
At the moment I am enjoying the V8 running through 4 Pot Holleys but I guess that thrill will wear off
...ebay?
Don't know really. I can only vaguely remember cassettes tbh. Ipod and headphones?
Where? In my car - but you can get a cassette adaptor for an iPod 
Or record your own cassettes - you will of course still have a cassette recorder in your hi-fi system and some blank cassettes? No? Just me then? 
Alternatively
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/10502032/Accessory-Agents-Stereo-iPod-MP3-Cassette-Adapter/Product.html?_%24ja=tsid:11518|cat:10502032|prd:10502032
At the moment I am enjoying the V8 running through 4 Pot Holleys but I guess that thrill will wear off
No it won't 
Or at least, if it ever does, your dead inside.
just swap the music thing, they come out easily enough.
<edit> is that thing made from MDF? or an old kitchen cabinet? 
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In a museum!
You really struggle buying proper pre-made tapes these days. I briefly had a car with only a tape deck and buying tapes proved to be more or less impossible. That was probably 4 or 5 years ago.
If you can be bothered recording your own, Wilkos still sell blank tapes. Alternately, you can get those tapes on a wire that plug into a discman / ipod.
Last time I cleared out the loft I found loads, including the first 22 now thats what I call music (all on tape!)
All went to the charity shop...
That's a wicked tape deck! I'd get one of those tape-adaptor things that you can run a jack-in from.
adaptor and ipod, even though they are cheap they'll probably sound better than an actual tape
Photos of car pls
I have some I doubt I will ever play again - email me if yo want them and I'll look out what I have
This thread is more "look I've got a TVR" than "oh no I've got a cassette deck"
that cassette deck is
a) not original
b) poorly fitted
just rip it out and put in a cd player or something with ipod connectivity
failing that, there are 117,000 listings for casettes here
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Music-/11233/i.html
its a bit of an obvious one really
I still have my tape collection
Haven't quite got the hang of i-pods yet. CDs are as modern as it gets here.
I've a drawer full of the feckers, but I'm seemingly ten years younger than you. If you're looking for Poison and T'Pau and the Pet Shop Boys, I'm your man.
I'll have a look in the loft. May even have some Billy Bragg.
If only you had asked a couple of weeks ago before I chucked mine out.
Can't remember them all but The Boomtown Rats and Carter USM were in there. Unlucky.
Cougar - MemberI've a drawer full of the feckers, but I'm seemingly ten years younger than you. If you're looking for Poison and T'Pau and the Pet Shop Boys, I'm your man.
Sounds more like my sisters tape collection. Do you wear skinny jeans
5lab - Memberthat cassette deck is
a) not original
b) poorly fitted
Poorly fitted, the sign that it is actually TVR factory fitted
+ ipod??????
I can only vaguely remember cassettes tbh
Wouldn't you be better off spending your spare cash on Araldite?
I have a cassette-to-3.5mm adaptor jobbie kicking around that I'll happily send you if you want.
But on the condition that you;
a) upload photos of the car
b) acknowledge that jamesy01 was right
Serious offer btw...
Freecycle? I have lots of tapes hidden away somewhere vaguely thinking I should do something with them. I only recently managed to bring myself to dump several hundred 3.5" floppies.
I had loads kicking around but I've a feeling I disposed of them when I stopped having a car with a cassette player. I DO have Dear You and Bivouac by Jawbreaker on tape though. And possibly Slip by Quicksand.
It isn't like the car will be reliable enough to warrant getting more than 1 or 2 tapes anyway. Old TVR = garden ornament.
As a different approach just get a new stereo for not much money. I have a Kenwood KDC BT30 sat boxed in my office that has CD/MP3, Aux in and even Bluetooth for the phone. It's just gathering dust but I'm reluctant to just give it away. Email me if you're interested. I'm not after a lot of money for it.
There used to be loads by the side of the road from folk chucking them out the car window when they jammed.
Have a scout on the motorway verges.
Can't all have biodegraded by now.
Have a scout on the motorway verges.
You'll probably find yourself there with not much to do often enough anyway.
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