History Goofy Gadgets.......picture thread

Picked this up at an estate sale and it is add on chrome teardrop lights with different colored lenses and is very cool and in mint condition, the lady I bought it from told me her husband has had them for over 40 years. So it got me thinking (scary) of all the cool gadgets that has been made in the Mid-Century for Kustoms and Hot Rods and well about every kind of vehicle. All the way from passing mirrors to stick on chrome and Bermuda Bells. Feel free to post what you have..............Moriarity let the cool stuff begin.

 

When is the last time you seen a "Growling Tiger horn"?

 

Anti-rattlers for door glass.

 

those are brilliant. If they stopped making them they should start again!

 

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Uh....that "Growling Tiger Horn"....is it supposed to attract them,
or scare them away??? Inquiring minds *NEED* to know!!!

Mart3406

 

That has to be the coolest push mower ever!

 

Looks like a "trailer queen" .

 

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Yeah....besides the absolutely gorgeous chrome on the engine
and gas tank and the 'Buck Rodgers/George Jetson' "spaceship"
styling - even the name is totally cool too - the "Atomic Yard
Master"!!! I wonder if tail fins were available as an 'at slight
adittional cost' factory option??? Regardless....available
'factory optional tail fins; or not though, EVERY H.A.M.B.E.R
worth his or her chrome lug nuts should absolutely HAVE TO HAVE
one of these babies!

Mart3406
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This is actually used as an elephant repellant. I put one on my truck and I haven't seen an elephant in the neighborhood ever since!

Nothing harder to buff out of your paint than elephant tracks.

 

Totally cool mower. Notice it's a 2 hp, they all used to be about that and now the new ones are about 6hp. That's almost as much as my old rider.

 

LOL! I just noticed something in this pic. Look at the petcock on the fuel tank. There's no fuel line connected to it! The motor may be made of plywood for all we know!

 

This should have been posted in the "Old cars are better" thread.

 

haha some weird stuff but that lawn mower is the coooolest ,

 

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Oh, man.....you're such a cynic and so suspicious! Motor
"may (even) be made of plywood"??" Ha!!
No way!! if it's not made from conventional iron, steel
or aluminum, then it's probably made from 'kryptonite'
......or from 'unobtanium'.....or maybe from some sort
of special, super-duper, "space-age" 'composite' material!
And as for the fuel tank petcock not having a 'fuel-line'
attached to it - in the future - and certainly by the year
2000 - when we'll all have 'solid plutonium-pellet-fueled',
nuclear-powered "Atomic Yard Master" lawn mowers like
this one, conventional, so-called "fuel-lines" will be
redundent and unnecessary!! Sheesh!!!

Mart3406
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I have a couple of these. One still in the box.



This is my coolest trinket. It's a cable driven defroster fan. There is a complicated apparatus that mounts on the engine. The cable connects to a wheel that is hinged. Another choke type cable pushes the wheel down to make contact with the back of the fan belt that drives the flex cable and fan when it's needed. In all the years this is the only one I've ever seen.

 

I like this thread!!

I have a few items. I'll gather them up and post them later.




BloodyKnuckles

 

Ditto.

 

The Bermuda Bell and the traffic light accessory by Stadco that dates back to the early 1950s. It was to be hung in the rear window of your car. Supposedly it helped prevent rear-end collisions. Working automatically, the green light would indicate that the car was accellerating. The yellow shows the car is slowing down, and the red light indcates a stopping to stopped car.

 

For adjusting an Autronic Eye

 

That push mower makes me want to cut my grass!!

 

You want goofy......Here`s goofy. Spring loaded rod bolts to compensate for out of round journals.

 

How about a doggie carrier or a record player, first introduced by Chrysler in 1956.

 

### Ok Mark I'll see your bottle of Glass Glaze and raise you a bottle of TUNE-O-LENE !!! >>>>.

 

I need those !

 

i have seen a dog carrier almost like that in action on a model t.
and someone just posted the same lawnmower last week from a swap meet, but it was shot. in need of some tlc.

 

That was Moriarty's build thread for the mower. He can't leave anything alone. Thank god for that

check it out. that mower is as clean & shiny on the bottom as it is on the top.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=466562

 

it's the same mower, before and after....

 

YEAH, and how did that work for you ?