Dual point distributors!
Quote from: Pellet Fun on December 08, 2021, 04:55:19 PMDual point distributors!Ahhh. the Dual Points! they were tricky!"Back in the Day" I could work a "Sun Machine" and dial them in with springs and centrifugal weights.....Sadly those days are long gone. Who knows what a Vertex Magneto is and how it's used?(forget vacuum advance) LOL!
Bill, I spent a summer working in a gas station.People buying the lead amount of gas alway pulled up to the pump fathest out.If you worked nights (alone) you wanted to be sure to lock the door and turn the gas pumps off.1956 Chevys had the gas cap under the left tailight.Gary
Back in the early to mid 70's us kids could buy a car out of the local paper classifieds, sometimes around $100 at most. Drive it(beat it) all school year, and at the end of school we could drive it over the scales at our local junk yard, and get back $75. Of course, it depended on what you found... some of those clunkers became hot rods!
My 54 Dodge did not come with a radio but had a factory dash cutout with a cover on it. There was a guy in high school with me that owned a 53 Desoto and asked me what I would charge to get it running. I took a look, and I spotted the radio that worked so I earned the radio by setting up the dual points on a 53 Desoto getting it running. It took me about two hours including removing my radio from his car. That radio was an awesome AM push button radio. There were individual tuners under each pull off button cover, and I had one set to a New York station, one set to Chicago. It was a strong long distance receiver with fine tuning, they don't make AM radio's that work that good anymore. Of course, the "tubes" took a while to warm up when it was turned on though. After a few months it quit working but my older brother who built and fixed radios fixed it for me. Then he built me a power supply/adapter that change power from 6 volts positive ground to 12 negative ground so I could put a 12-volt negative ground AM/FM Cassette stereo in it. I mounted it isolated from the car dash by dark smoked plexiglass since the car had a 6-volt positive ground electrical system. After installing the stereo, I enjoyed the FM and cassette very much but missed my old AM stations and how much better the old AM radio was than the new one on the AM band.
Quote from: Rabbit\Squirrel Killer on December 09, 2021, 01:13:21 PMMy 54 Dodge did not come with a radio but had a factory dash cutout with a cover on it. There was a guy in high school with me that owned a 53 Desoto and asked me what I would charge to get it running. I took a look, and I spotted the radio that worked so I earned the radio by setting up the dual points on a 53 Desoto getting it running. It took me about two hours including removing my radio from his car. That radio was an awesome AM push button radio. There were individual tuners under each pull off button cover, and I had one set to a New York station, one set to Chicago. It was a strong long distance receiver with fine tuning, they don't make AM radio's that work that good anymore. Of course, the "tubes" took a while to warm up when it was turned on though. After a few months it quit working but my older brother who built and fixed radios fixed it for me. Then he built me a power supply/adapter that change power from 6 volts positive ground to 12 negative ground so I could put a 12-volt negative ground AM/FM Cassette stereo in it. I mounted it isolated from the car dash by dark smoked plexiglass since the car had a 6-volt positive ground electrical system. After installing the stereo, I enjoyed the FM and cassette very much but missed my old AM stations and how much better the old AM radio was than the new one on the AM band. 276.1 Firedome Hemi V-8 in the DeSoto? When we were kids we rebuilt that motor in a '52 DeSoto....It idles so slowly and smoothlythat we could count the revs..............