I bought this car about a year ago and have spent the time since just getting it running again (it had sat in a shed since 1973). Well, it runs now so I'm moving on to some other problems, like holes in the floor, etc. This evening I was getting under the dash to begin removing the headlight switch and I found an old Eveready flashlight attached via a bracket to the steering column. I took out the bracket and cleaned up the flashlight a little bit and noticed that it has a comp*** built into it that is visible when you look into the lense. The directional letters and numbers are printed in red ink onto the reflector inside of the lense. I've never seen anything like it and wonder if any of you guys might know how old it is. Thanks for any info.
I was thinkin' the same thing: We need pics! A couple years ago a buddy of mine found an old .22 revolver in a '48 Ford truck he was rebuilding. I ran it through the police department and it came up clean...The gun aesthetically, was anything but, so he ended up cleaning it and used it as a gear shift. I guess you could do the same with an old flash light if you really wanted. Oh, and sorry, I can't really help you with the Mystery of the Old Flashlight, but yeah, pictures would be helpful. I found a possibility just searching for Eveready and comp***, (***uming it was a 2 cell) and came up with one hit at flashlightmuseum.com from the 1959 era. Does it look anything like this?:
Its identical to the one pictured above - it still had two badly corroded batteries in it that had a price tag on them of 24 cents each. Thanks for posting the picture, thats it for sure.
Bad*** find I have the bracket for a flashlight in my Galaxie on the column I'm still looking for the perfect flashlight for it lol
I've got this one... vintage 50's era ray-o-vac bullet flashlight. A little phallic looking but really neat if you can keep it out of your wife's/girlfriend's hands...
Here's mine. Lots of the dads had these in the late 50s. Not too many of the hotroders. I found this mount and repainted it. I found the Genuine Boy Scouts flash light with the 90* head that I always wanted when I was a Scout. They are now re-poping the flash light column mounts and the stainless flashlights. I always thought that they were cool. Of course the batteries are always dead on that rare occasion when it is needed.
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