Record Player in a truck?

[bball09124 10+ year member]

I'm going to be home a while over Christmas break and I have no car audio to install. My dad has hundreds of record albums (the BIG ones) and I was thinking how cool it would be to put one in his truck. I'm going to replace his door speakers, give him my old Powerbass 75x2 and wire a LOC to his stock HU.

My plan is this, run one of those casette to 3.5mm headphone adapters, then run the 3.5 mm headphone adapter to a 3.5mm to RCA adapter. He's got a single cab truck with a bunch of room behind the seats, so I was thinking I could mount the turntable behind the seats.

Only thing is, do they make any that can be mounted vertically, or am I S.O.L.?

If I can, any brands or models of record player (the cheaper the better) would you recommend?

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[Cpyder 10+ year member]

I'm no pro when it comes to turntables, but how do you stop the needle from jumping off track when you hit a bump?

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

I'm no pro when it comes to turntables, but how do you stop the needle from jumping off track when you hit a bump?

this would be a huge problem

 

[Pootie 10+ year member]

I'm going to be home a while over Christmas break and I have no car audio to install. My dad has hundreds of record albums (the BIG ones) and I was thinking how cool it would be to put one in his truck. I'm going to replace his door speakers, give him my old Powerbass 75x2 and wire a LOC to his stock HU.
My plan is this, run one of those casette to 3.5mm headphone adapters, then run the 3.5 mm headphone adapter to a 3.5mm to RCA adapter. He's got a single cab truck with a bunch of room behind the seats, so I was thinking I could mount the turntable behind the seats.

Only thing is, do they make any that can be mounted vertically, or am I S.O.L.?

If I can, any brands or models of record player (the cheaper the better) would you recommend?

S.O.L. It's just to impracticle to do this there would be no way from the needle not to skip while driving. If you did for him to play records while camped out somewhere i.e. tailgating or what not then you'll be good but for a normal application it just won't work.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

dont do it. It will be a waste of time for sure.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

i think they could have grounding problems...i may be wrong on this but it seems the phono part of old turntables required special ohmed outputs...plus the needle skipping problem.....there are computer programs set up where you can convert...albums....cassettes...8-tracks...4 tracks...mini disc ...ect...to standard CD's....that would be the best way to go...

 

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

That would make a nice bassrace setup //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

 

[Cpyder 10+ year member]

Just buy something to convert all his albums into cds for him.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Chrysler experimented with putting a turntable in the glove compartment in the '50s - didn't work then, and it isn't any better of an idea now.

Records are really meant to be enjoyed at home, where you don't have the noise floor of a moving car, and flipping album sides isn't going to kill you on the road //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[GreenBook 10+ year member]

I saw a show car on 'car crazy' on the speed channel the other day that had a turntable custom built into the backseat. Was some classic droptop caddy or something.

 

[buggsson 10+ year member]

There are turntables for vertical positions, but you will not be able to play wile driving.

 

[gotparts90 10+ year member]

I had a rack to hold a coffin for the tables in my van with a big inverter in there it was nice for the beach but you cant drive with them on. It was nice tables slid out two legs dropped down and the rest of the rack stayed in the van.