Found a Chrondek Light Stand today.

Probably some in this book. There's a pic in the preview of the tree and the guy that ran the timimg system from the 60s.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Fw...qfBkRdWa2yBkaqEyyDA&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Wow, what a score!!! I'm jealous.

 

Funny, yet absolutely correct, it would make a great christmas tree!

 

that is SO ****ING COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hmmmmmmm, kinda like your avitar, sf!

 

Thats just to good not to repost again Lol

 

You lucky s.o.b. Congrats on the score!!!

 

Saw the blue flight case buried under some brake drums at a racers auction, second to last item through for the day, had to have it!

 

That looks like Gainesville, FLA.

 

thanks, it was fun making it, and after

 

Excellent find! I searched for years before I found mine. The one I have came from ESTA Safety Park in Cicero, NY. I got everything except the photocells as they worked with the new system. Mine is earlier (just stage, no pre-stage bulbs) & the solenoids are in the box, not on the tree like yours. Guy thought I was nuts for wanting it!

Chrondek is still in business but they do scoreboards for stadiums and such now. Had a nice conversation with a couple of the guys there reminiscing about the "good old days".

 

Nice find

 

Umm yeah..count me in on this

 

No idea what they're worth, but to sell it would be sacrilege! If I ever find one my kids will have to deal with it when I'm gone!!!!

 

Anyone have a wiring diagram for one of these?

 

in the mid 80's Batson Sheetmetal In Santee, CA made some of these but we didn't put any of those electrical knock outs in them.

 

OK Ebb, I'll bite.
How in the heck did you know SN#65 was Bristol's ??

I've asked several times when & where the first Chrondek system was used, and no one seems to know for certain. Can you guide me to an answer?
Tom S.

 

I was thinking the same thing, is there a list or database?

 

i have a VINTAGE 60,s 12v PORT-A-TREE for sale was supposedly used as the backup tree in gainsville FLA..though i have no way to verify that..had it 25 yrs has all electronics except actual start switch.. dan

 

X1400! What Squirrel sed!

 

What was your best E.T. from the living room to the kitchen? (ha)

 

Aw hell I,ll give ya 75

 

We have a cl***ified section here on the H.A.M.B.

...this ain't it.

 

What a great score. After looking out the windshield at one for so many years I'd like to have one in the shop office.

Frank

 

Very cool!

 

Ive' got a Biondo tree but it's like comparing a new Prius to an original Hemi car. YOU WIN! That thing is cool. When my son saw some old pics of my car from the late 70's at the track, he thought the tree back then looked ridiculous. Cracks me up to think what our kids missed out on. Most have never even power shifted a stick car. They think race cars always had Glides in them!

 

Very cool! When does it hit the cl***ifieds?

 

This picture was from the mid 70's. The car in the photo was Jim Oddy's Blown - Injected 426 Hemi Powered Opal GT. He sold the car to this guy that totaled the car shortly after he got it.

The car use to look like this when Jim Oddy built it. (Sorry for the size and quality but it's the only shot of the car I have.)

 

Ours is from CT. Dragway...it works...here is a picture with my husband Ron (in ECTA shirt) & Steve VanBlarcom talking with Mike Woods (Stone, Woods, & Cook) at Foxwoods Casino Red Carpet Rumble in June.

 

Very Cool Find. Hard to beleive that the guy could care less about it. Does anybody else hate the new tree's with the LED blue lights insted of the yellow pre-stage and stage bulbs.....