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The old guy mechanic in a Ford dealership garage was my introduction to that trick.

 

:cornut: In high school I worked nights and weekends at an auto parts store(Austin,Texas) and some customers would like to hang all over the cash register(mechanical cash register, with the pull lever). One of the guys clandestinely hooked a 'hot' engine coil, battery, and distributor to the mechanical register. As we were walking filling an order, if anyone was leaning on the register, we'd spin the rotor on the distributor and watch the customer jump. The customer would ask for the manager who would demonstrate that the register was mechanical all while touching the register and not being shocked. Then periodically, until he left the store, the customer would touch the register to see if it would happen again. The first Taser- PRICELESS!:lol::ihih::devil:

Jason

ADDENDUM: In those days, the hottest coil was a 'Model T' 6 volt coil and boy did it make them jump. Thinking back now, we were lucky that we didn't kill anyone(thank you Lord).

 

Solid Rubber Truck Tires

Jason

 

How about putting an 8 volt battery in a 6 volt car, so it would crank faster and brighten up the lights without burning them up right away, you had to tweak the voltage regulator too.

It made all the difference in a friend's '37 Buick!

Can you even get an 8 volt battery anymore?

Dave

 

No Oil Pumps

:cornut: Engines with no oil pumps like the 216 Chevy straight 6 cyl. Instead of an oil pump it had metal paddle splashers attached to the crank shaft that splashed the crank case oil over the rods and crank shaft.

Jason

 

Balsa wood, rubber band powered gliders.

Perterated roll caps, for repeating cap pistols, like the Fanner 50..

Jim

 

That is funny, as we would do that too. You could also scratch then with a nail and sometimes get a good fire going.

Jim

 

When I was a kid, we used to make firecrackers with those roll caps. We would stick a pin through the center of each cap, folding the roll back and forth over the pin as we went. Then, we'd wrap the whole thing in scotch tape and put a fuse for a Jetex rocket motor on the end, before pulling the pin out.

Jetex fuse,

Jetex.org: Jetex fuse

They popped pretty good!

Dave

 

I had forgotten about those Jetex engines. They would give a plane or a car one wild ride. Not much control, but fast.

Jim

 

Is quoting song titles legal???

 

Interactive TV show, Winky Dink and You

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolnhfwwr9I&feature=share]Winky Dink and You (1/3) - YouTube[/ame]

 

My parents wouldn't by me the magic window (maybe because we didn't have a TV at the time) so, we would meet at a friends house (who did have a TV) and put plastic wrap on the screen.

Jim

 

I have one in my garage, haven't hooked it up yet.

 

Mallory Dual Point Distributors

 

:cornut: 'Suicide' front opening car doors

Jason

 

:cornut: Leaf Springs front and rear

Jason

 

Riding down to the soda fountain at the corner drug store (with the nickle juke box selectors at each booth) on the running board 'cause you can't get eight people in a '40 Ford sedan. Selecting "I tawt I taw a puddy tat". I wasn't very old and all those kids including the one on the other running board would have been sent up to Leavenworth these days for not having me buckled in to my federal nanny car seat.

 

Ordering a 'Chocolate Soda' at a Texas soda fountain and being asked,"what's that?" Ordering a 'Malt' North of the Mason Dixon and being told,"We only have Milk Shakes. Malt is malt liquor."

Jason

 

Real manly steel dashboards, that you could split your head open on in an accident.

Not those namby pamby padded dashes and airbags like we have now!:devil:

Dave