anyone else here

collect old spark plugs? or am I the only oddball?

 

I have some old ones that I thought were cool stuck in a piece of 2x4.............but that's betwixt you and I! I also collect the norm like caps, grilles, bumpers, plates and emblems. The emblems I like to add a ring to and hang from flat wire I bend into a circular shape and wear as my new bling bling! Makes cool and unique jewelry........
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Brandy

 

My pops and I have about 20 different styles/kinds in a coffee can somewhere. I knew a guy who owned the car museum in Stome Mtn., Ga. well he had this nice hardwood casf full of vintage spark plugs and i thought of all the old wierd oned i threw out! kinda sux. I also have a collection of license plates.

-RNB

 

I have a 5 gallon bucket with old ones. Does that count? Some of mine have pipe thread, taper, no seat, a bunch of them can be taken apart to clean them. Brands you never heard of.

 

I have some. Keep on thinking about making a board to put them on.

 

wouldn't wanna part with any of em would ya?

 

I got a few......mostly never used and in the box. I like the oddball names myself.

 

I've got 5 Champion 62S plugs I bought at an antique store 15 yrs ago. Thats as big as my collection is.


Anyone know what they are for?

 

yeah same here, got an edisons?

 

I was into them big time, still have a case with 77 of the best ones on the wall in front of me as I'm typing this. When the need to own a 1937 Harley hit I started selling them off to buy Harley parts. I always thought it would be nice to have a plug that was manufactured in every state in the union, and mount them on a big map. I'll also admit to haveing a collection of over 80 different St Christopher Medals with cars on them. Welcome to the HAMB, you sound like a very normal guy to me.

 

Gotta bunch of old ones but there all being used in engines. Hey by the way,Nice HAMB name

 

I have about 10,000 new old stock spark plugs.Ranging from the first Champion and all kinds of odd ball multi-electrode plugs.

 

Got pics? Would love to see em. Ernest

 

I used to but I had to start throwin' 'em out so I wasn't tempted to use 'em again.

 

No collection, but I do have some old Allstates from a 1946 Ford.

 

This is from Art Bell's Coast to Coast website.....

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page955.html

 

The TWIN Spark Plug was designed to be reversed when one electrode burned out or fowled.

 

That's the craziest electrode I've ever seen!!!!!

 

That looks like someone pooped a plug

 

When I was a kid we used them for fishing sinkers when fishing in the rocks.
We hammered th electrode shut over a loop in the fising line and if it got stuck in a rock it usually would open up from tugging and let loose. Free weights!
We collected tire weights too and melted them down on the kitchen stove to make fishing weights and pipe cannon "ordinance".

 

They are for an antique (but still in common use) Continental aircraft engine, the A-65, A-75 and A-80. Four cylinder 65 to 80 hp engines...

 

Holy ****!!! 6 months and I get my answer. Right on.

Thanks, now go do an intro.

 

Well, I'm really more of a pilot and jeep restorer than a hot rod guy...I was researching the Champion plugs because of an eBay auction which said the plugs were for a WWII jeep--which ain't so.

Greg

 

I've got a few (thousand)...

 

I have a box of Firestone sparkplugs....................

Bill