I picked up this Funk-A-Delic Beehive coil at Hershey and can find nothing on the web about it. It says Grigsby on the top and a couple of patent numbers, they come up as circutry designs, nothing on the coil itself. Thing is cool looking, I hope it works so I can use it on my speedster project. Anyone know about these?
I wonder if the grigsby name is part of an ignition system? I have only seen the name in reference to the trigger for a coil, more specifically the system that collapses the field to fire the coil. Either way, that is a superb find! I hope you can get more than admiration in response to this thread! Sent from my iPhone using TJJ!!!
I did risk a big 10 bux on it ( big spender that I am) , a hamber responded that it looked like the Holthouse coil/ ign system. There is another thread on that and some info, I contected the hamber who posted that for pix. we'll see!
google has a patent number feature. the first patent number comes back as a 1927 patent for what looks to be a distributor that has some internal circuit instead of points, the second number shows the same drawing, but I cna't be sure from the picture what all the digits are in the lower number, what I entered comes back as being filed in 1936. <A href='http://www.google.com/patents?id=qHVAAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA3&ci=84%2C483%2C369%2C803&source=bookclip"><img' target=_blank>http://www.google.com/patents?id=qHVAAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA3&ci=84%2C483%2C369%2C803&source=bookclip"><IMG< a> src<A href='http://www.google.com/patents?id=qHVAAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA3&img=1&zoom=4&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1B9r8KRm3teBDmyI**tzBrQiqOMQ&ci=84%2C483%2C369%2C803&edge=0"/></a' target=_blank>http://www.google.com/patents?id=qH...=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
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