Back when I was just an young un I bought a Three Dog Night 8 track tape at the local store and my Brother-in-law came down one evening in his old bug eye Triumph sporty type car and it just happened to have a 8 track player on board so we took my brand new investment out and stuck it in the player and it promptly ate my brand new purchase in typical 8 track player fashion so I took it back to the store and said hey man your tape broke on me so they gave me a new one.
I remember many a time driving down the road in my 65 Chevelle with a cold one between my legs (that's a beer wise guys) and trying to stick a match book underneath the 8 track tape to make it track right, it was a fact of life back then.
Many years ago before I moved on to my Couch Potato status I was getting some exercise in on my stepper (this thing could kill ya) I popped a 8 track in my J.C. Penny stereo and as I was sweating my butt off to the oldies I noticed the music was starting to sound a little funky and then I started to smell burning rubber so I ejected the tape to find the rubber drive wheel turned to goo so then I stuck another tape in there and it did the same thing so after that I sweated to the oldies without the music.
Mark