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[Bean Counter]

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[Free in Texas]

Ooohhh, a Holley double pumper.

[TheOldLady]

1. Headlight dimmer switch

2. Points - I had a ‘57 Pontiac and had to change them all the time.

3. Carburetor! Come on! Everybody knows what that is, right? Right? sigh...

[goseminoles]

Holley 850??

[CobraJet]

I’m still driving a car with all three. 69 Mustang.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I grew up driving Volkswagons. Of course I know what that is! :)

[TheOldLady]

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[jonascord]

That's the gadget that was absolutely useless when you let the little screw that clamped the condenser fall into the cleverly sited hole that would let the #2 screw slip into the distributor/camshaft drive gear. (The driven gear on Dodges was plastic, so you could ruin it if you were clumsy.)

You would then spend two hours trying to fish out the screw with a magnetic retrieval tool, while using up every curse and blasphemy you'd ever heard or invented. Since you only had to replace the points about every year or so, you would forget to stick a piece of tape over the hole.

(While you were at it, you would check the insides of the distributor cap for carbon tracks.)

The fun of being a broke engineering student with a beater car...

[central_va]

Holley 850??

Wrong, it's a chrome Holley 850.

[goseminoles]

Lol. My bad..

[TheOldLady]

Yes. We still have our ‘73 Pinto — EMP impervious.

[RegulatorCountry]

An uncle of mine had a 1967 Lincoln Continental hardtop coupe with automatic headlight dimmers but it still had one of those. You depressed it with you foot to activate the electromechanical “scan” feature on the radio, and the tuner knob on the dashboard would seemingly turn by itself, lol. Old tv remotes would do the same thing, but via a radio signal.

[jonascord]

It's a two stage four barrel, hard to tell if it's a 750 CFM, or bigger.

As I recall, two 1100's on an Edelbrock manifold was the setup that inspired, "Turn it off, Mister, the gas pump can't keep up!"

[LostInBayport]

I still prefer to have them down there instead of on the stalk.

Ditto! My first car had the switch there...would prefer it even today.

[lysie]

I agree with you, but they did tend to rust a bit.

[jonascord]

Think Delco...

[bvw]

What are these?

[bvw]

What did this knob do?

[Johnny B.]

My 1980 car was the first one that didn’t have the “can” button for the bright lights. I know that because when I drove it home from the dealer it was dark out and my bright lights were on and I had absolutely no idea how to turn them off. I kept annoying oncoming traffic the whole way home as I futilely stomped on the floor trying to press a button that wasn’t there.

I actually prefer having the control on the stalk, if for no other reason than those metal can buttons rusted out (at least in those climates where snow was common).

[11Bush]

On my ‘65 MGBGT it operated the headlights, on everything else it was the choke.

[NY Attitude]

Choke.