Last year for vacuum tube type radios and TV's?

[Beachboy]

Originally Posted by AUdubon5425

I think the last car radios with tubes were around 1964. Particulars escape me at the moment.

We owned both Ford and GM 1964 model vehicles, and they had both switched to solid state AM car radios by then. My brother had a '62 Chevy Corvair, and I worked on the radio once and seem to recall it had four vacuum tubes, but an audio output transistor.