In the late 1950s through the 1960s, you could order automobile record players as a factory option. There were also aftermarket models. It seems that most of them were for 45s, not 33 RPM LPs, so you’d only get a single song before needing to switch the record it had a changer, per post from [email protected] below. But I found photos of 33 RPM in-car players too, so there must have been a few of those.
Here is a 1961 model,
That’s a problem I very rarely had with car CD players
By the time that car CD players became a thing, that was pretty much a solved problem.
Built-in car CD players, yes. My Discman with the cassette adapter? Not so much
Cassette adapters were so clutch, in the early iPod days, it was better to have a car with a cassette player than a CD player