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tourettesteddy Guest	Ghettoblasters tourettesteddy @GUEST
	Aug 19, 2007 22:01:04 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I collect retro Ghettoblasters from the 80's thought i'd share my collection ;D Phillips D8444... 3 amps 5 speakers sounds as good as some home systems Sanyo C5.. seperates into 4 pieces mini seperates Amstrad.. odd looking thing i found on Ebay cheap probably a copy of a Marantz Hitachi Superwoofer.. the newest in my collection they all work and get used as much as possible ;D


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Lewis Posted hell of a lot Got 8 cylinders, uses 'em all... Posts: 7,625	Ghettoblasters Lewis @lewisk78
	Aug 19, 2007 22:08:10 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Maan, that Phillips one is BOSS, all of them are so cool........Love period stuff - like when I built a late 80's techfest out of totally random unknown Japanese ripoffs. Great fun! I have a strong lusting for a ghettoblaster now, damn you


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Davenger Club Retro Rides Member It's only metal Posts: 7,272 Club RR Member Number: 140	Ghettoblasters Davenger @dminifreak Club Retro Rides Member 140
	Aug 19, 2007 23:07:50 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	That Amstrad is nuts! I love it ;D
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Marc Posted a lot Posts: 1,037	Ghettoblasters Marc @pugboyracer
	Aug 20, 2007 6:29:04 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I had a Hitachi SuperWoofer as a kid! ;D
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grizz Probably posted too much REZIN ROCKIT......🚀 Posts: 28,504	Ghettoblasters grizz @grizz
	Aug 20, 2007 6:46:07 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	My Philips did service for about 20 years, and when I sold my last house in SA, I left it in the garage where it had worked for a long time. They are a bit of a flashback too.... how things have changed.
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HoTWire Administrator Posts: 27,170	Ghettoblasters HoTWire @admin
	Aug 20, 2007 6:56:09 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Awesome!! I've keep meaning to sort out the in car sounds in the Sunny by getting an old, broken ghettoblaster, gutting it and wiring it up to some kind of headunit (hidden in the glove box of course).. so it can sit on the back seat looking cool, and play tunes! This is awesome :
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reanimation Probably posted too much Probably? Definately! Posts: 12,694	Ghettoblasters reanimation @reanimation
	Aug 20, 2007 8:31:01 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nice collection, I'd love a mega boom box! i have a Technics one with a record player though.
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mowzer Part of things Posts: 618	Ghettoblasters mowzer @mowzer
	Aug 20, 2007 10:32:26 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	pugboyracer said: I had a Hitachi SuperWoofer as a kid! ;D Me to they sounded amazing from what i remember
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BenzBoy Probably posted too much Posts: 17,940 Club RR Member Number: 7	Ghettoblasters BenzBoy @benzboy Club Retro Rides Member 7
	Aug 20, 2007 11:32:42 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I collect them too! Well, I'm starting my collection - I have two. I'm picking up a wicked Panasonic one in a few weeks. I've converted one to play MP3's, which is handy
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the_munkeh Part of things Posts: 440	Ghettoblasters the_munkeh @themunkeh
	Aug 20, 2007 12:36:13 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nice collection fella! I have the hitachi but the woofer has died So I Picked this up in a charity shop the other week, best thing is it has a line in for the ipod! took it to beach buggin at the weekend for its first trip out.
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trg1984 Posted hell of a lot pitying fools since 1984 Posts: 6,503	Ghettoblasters trg1984 @trg1984
	Aug 20, 2007 12:41:10 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	ive got one of these a Sharp GF 767, its awesome. saw one on ebay last week for $600 too.


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BenzBoy Probably posted too much Posts: 17,940 Club RR Member Number: 7	Ghettoblasters BenzBoy @benzboy Club Retro Rides Member 7
	Aug 20, 2007 14:54:31 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	trg1984 said: ive got one of these a Sharp GF 767, its awesome. saw one on ebay last week for $600 too. You lucky b@stard! That's some kick-ass bit of kit. I've got it's smaller, less cool sibling, the GF-4646!
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trg1984 Posted hell of a lot pitying fools since 1984 Posts: 6,503	Ghettoblasters trg1984 @trg1984
	Aug 20, 2007 15:56:08 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	i know, lucky as f**k to find it, when i was working in a warehouse i found it under a bench, took it home, cleaned loads of paint off it, chucked 10!!! huge batteries init and it fired straight up, its just missing a few knobs. heres a pic of it on the back of RUN DMC's first album, just to rub it in ;D


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tourettesteddy Guest	Ghettoblasters tourettesteddy @GUEST
	Aug 20, 2007 16:48:45 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nice Sharp the GF767 and GF777 are among the Ghettoblaster holygrail I tried to get a none working GF777 of Ebay a few weeks back but it went for 150 quid all busted up and not working I did plan to give it a chop and modernise the insides but wasn't prepared to pay that for one in that state.


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Hirst Posted a lot This avatar is inaccurate, I've never shaved that closely Posts: 3,930	Ghettoblasters Hirst @hirst
	Aug 20, 2007 17:17:15 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I absolutely love ghettoblasters, but for some baffling reason don't own one. I do have an enormous TV/tapedeck combo unit from the early 80s though! This site is well-recommended: pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/
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tourettesteddy Guest	Ghettoblasters tourettesteddy @GUEST
	Aug 20, 2007 17:24:39 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Yes that site is responsible for me starting to collect them ;D


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briandamaged Guest	Ghettoblasters briandamaged @GUEST
	Aug 20, 2007 18:05:04 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Not really portable, but back in 1982 I bought one of these: Sharp VZ-series, you could play both sides without turning it over, and boy was it loud!!! Sadly long-gone now, a mate had a car crash into his gaff in 1989, I was tempted to take it up there and drop a breeze-block on it, add it to his insurance claim then spend the cash as a deposit on a monster Akai separates system, but of course I didn't.......


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slater Club Retro Rides Member Posts: 6,390 Club RR Member Number: 78	Ghettoblasters slater @slater Club Retro Rides Member 78
	Aug 20, 2007 20:07:43 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I need one.


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Retro_Tony Part of things Posts: 121	Ghettoblasters Retro_Tony @tonyrwd
	Aug 21, 2007 1:12:56 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I used to copy Spectrum games on a hitachi super woofer


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awoo Posted a lot Posts: 1,507	Ghettoblasters awoo @awoo
	Aug 22, 2007 20:40:14 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	hey i collect these suckers too! i guess youre on stereo2go ya? i used to be on there till i got kicked off ive had quite afew but try to only keep one at a time. this is what i have now, the biggest mofo going, my grail as they say - these are all the actual ones i have had in no particular order - this is the only other one i still have not a gettobox but still oldskool radio cool and i had a vz2000 which looks like this but i cant find a pic of it for some reason. similar to this one, turntable, red speakers, blue and silver bits, huge, etc
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