just scored this old vertex.story goes it was on an early flatty.he is looking for the old drive of the front of the engine.are those drives repoped?any info as to age,etc?if only these old pieces could talk.there was dirt track racing in this area in the 30`s &40`s.(quite a difference from the newer one!) thanks chris
This may help if it's a right angle front drive mag, it's hard to tell by the picture. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1932...014QQitemZ330242307440QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
What you have in one of the first true mag's built for automobile engines. I have only seen a few of these. I think it was a company from Europe, first started making mag's in the 20's, and I think somewhere on the East Coast. I know they also made mag's for airplanes. Your timeline is probably pretty close.............late 30's/40's. The only person I know who made right angle drives is Norman Frick in Colorado but I'm not sure he makes them anymore. He made my heads and still makes a lot of neat stuff for Model A/B motors. I have never seen anybody other than Norm that made the right angle drives.............................. Does it still make a make a good spark when you spin the shaft?
The one shown in this ad is a little different, and I think is an older design with the secondary circuit comming out of the mag body... Too bad I can't read what the add says.
This is what we did - it started out as a Chevy mag that we shortened and reversed the direction - they are all fairly similiar - pretty simple!
the tag reads:Scintilla " Vertex" importe de Suisse made in Switzerland i turned it over slowly with my fingers and it shoots a nice big blue spark.
In 1957 Iwas working for british railways,Brighton England. Most of the petrol 6 cylinder engines ,used scintilla mags. The fat ones were the early ones ,and the smaller diameter were later ones.
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