Years back I was eBaying and came across a listing for a bunch of tail lights. In the back of the pics was this strange gauge and geeze, well I just had to have THAT! I have never been able to figure out what this gauge was for or had anyone that could tell me what this gauge was for. Current project is a 29 A that I'm building for time distance rallying. We're running a Time Wise speedo so for a bit of fun I've put the unknown gauge where the original speedo would have gone. When the lever is pulled all the way to the right it runs for just over two minutes and then chimes. Would love to hear guesses and would be tickled pink if someone knew the real use for this guage. Thank you.............KB
It mounted on a philosopher's drinking gl***. Was available in two models...other one said "Set to empty at start..."
Well hell, I thought everyone knew what those were! It's quite obviously a vintage Webley-Vickers 45/60.2 "optimist" gauge. Not quite as rare as the matching 45/60.1 "pessimist" gauge. (It reads "half empty") Jeez .... whatta buncha dummies!
Are you running in the Great Race? Those Time Wise speedos are incredibly accurate, and incredibly expensive.
From what we understand the Great Race folks have gone under. But yes, that is the type of event the car is designed for. There is another guy out of Branson that is running events so we're all hoping he succeeds. And the Time Wise is expensive but, name something that isn't in this hobby. They run about a grand but luckly my buddy bought a new one and picked up his used one for six.
I'm guessing some machine that grinds up nuts or something. You fill a hopper full of nuts and set the timer to full and it winds down for two minutes and goes ding about the time the hopper is empty.
Because it doesn't have a gl*** face it had to operate in an enclosed protected area. My guess is a WWII torpedo timer, either aboard ship or plane.
It's a timer for having *** at the rest stops, so you don't get too far behind.......or maybe not!!!-MIKE
Ummm, not. They used a stop watch, an attack was never made at a pre decided depth, they calculated distance to target them worked out track time. On launch they hit the stop watch and hoped like hell there was a big BANG at the end of the calculated time.
"hoped like hell there was a big BANG at the end of the calculated time..." and ran like hell if there wasn't, because a loose torpedo's ultimate track tended to be a huge circle!
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