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Jim Schrader
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From: Savage, MN, USA
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Pasquale DAlessio
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I would but there aren't any parking spaces left! [Big Grin]

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Melvin England
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.... and it would have to be a road movie!

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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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 - posted June 06, 2016 08:09 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I have this in my "Theater":

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Because of it I am the largest car-free indoor drive-in theater on my block!

(............as far as I know!)

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Tom Photiou
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You do get some pretty coooooool stuff in the states. [Wink]

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Steve Klare
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 - posted June 08, 2016 08:31 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Drive-In speakers are actually very common.

Most drive in theaters have gone out of business and most of the ones still operating have gone to FM broadcast for audio, so there are thousands and thousands of used ones available.

-plus you can buy brand new ones from Detroit Diecast.

Detroit Diecast

Mine is one of these.

If I get another one, I think I'd like to buy a dead vintage one and restore it. It is very common for them to have the names of the old theaters still on them and in the best case it would be great to have one from a local theater. (E-bay usually has a couple of dozen on auction ranging all the way from corroded and dead right up to brand new.)

The parts are readily available. The catch is you need to buy a special screwdriver to open them up, because otherwise the patrons sometimes tampered with them. They often tried to drive away with the speaker still hanging in the car window, but that's another story.

Beyond the cool exterior, it's just a regular 8 Ohm speaker with a volume control (other than being weather proof...). I've wired it into the Ext. speaker jack on my Elmo machines and it sounds pretty good.

Long term I want to permanently connect it into my home cinema audio system and have it sitting on an end table (I mentioned hanging it on a vintage car door in the living room: my wife vetoed it thoroughly! [Wink] ), but like many of my projects it's waiting in line for some other one to get finished.

I also think it would be cool to plumb it into an FM radio or automotive sound system so I could use it at a real drive in theater, but right now that's just a "maybe someday".

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