Re: [Amc-list] stuff to do with old cars... California Melee

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
" 
" Joe Fulton wrote:
" > Maybe if I put those real magnesium Minilite wheels on my Rambler
" > American they would consider it a touring car or sports car?  It
" > does sound like fun.
" > 
" > Let's see, other rally prepping could include taping an old Timex
" > watch to the dash, and adding old yellow-lens fog lights below the front bumper.  
" 
" Well part of the look in mind -- stalled by skool, projects, dead T-96 
" etc -- was euro-rally look. The giant German driving lights fit right in!
" 
" I wanted an old rally clock (one or more notches up from the Timex :-) 
" but they are very expensive! Figures. Electronic jobs are "better" but 
" the old stuff is cooler.

how about a halda coffee-grinder [grenade-size mechanical calculator]
and .01-mi stewart warner trip odo, precisely calibrated to the brand
and size of your tires?  haldas are probably also a small fortune
these days, if you can find one.

i remember the ads from the '60s - they were quite the invention, but
i didn't know until much later that they were devised by a nazi pow,
who did it all in his head while in the prison camp as a way of
keeping his sanity.  he patented it after the war and i hope he made a
fortune, because he and it certainly deserved it.  iirc they were good
to 6 or 7 digits precision.
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