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

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

what he said... : )

Ken 

Quoting Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> " 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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