Dear ol Dad's story was the opposite.. he drove his new MGA
('56 ?) to visit his fiance. This time was from Philly to North
Carolina. After he got out he swore that he would never do *that*
again and promptly bought a '55 lincoln that he had for many years...
Lester
.. yup, he was young doc in the med corp, USN. This was all before
he learned about impact acceleration as the flight surgeon on the
Essex..
On Nov 28, 2005, at 2:04 PM, b-evans@earthlink.net wrote:
> Speaking of turn signal sagas (with LEC content included)...
>
> When I was in the Navy, another sailor found a sucker to unload his
> 1954
> Ford 2-door. I paid him $400 and was thrilled to death to have a car
> that would give me the freedom to get off the base.
>
> Unfortunately, I discovered that whenever I hit the turn signal lever,
> the horn sounded. And whenever I hit the horn, the turning lights
> blinked for about 30 seconds. Nobody, let alone dummy me, could
> understand why that was happening. An auto mechanic on the base was
> mystified. I to the crazy situation, and learned to use the turn
> signal lever when I needed a horn, but did not even try to use the
> horn
> ring to turn on BOTH turn lights and confuse all of Memphis.
>
> Finally, it was far too much for me. I sold the Ford to two other
> sailors for $300, but fully explained the quirky behavior. They were
> aviation electronic technicians, so were over-confident about their
> ability to sort it out! (Later, I learned that they gave up and
> sold it
> to a couple of other suckers for $200.)
>
> With the $300 and a Navy Credit Union loan, I went down to Bluff City
> Buick and Imports and (OK, here is the requisite LEC content) bought
> myself the new 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite that is still an integral
> part
> of the family!
>
> Buster Evans
>
> Dan Gillitzer wrote:
> Took apart my old switch. Between terminals 1 and 2 (the ones
> which
> seem to
> bridge the signal from the flasher to the indicator on the dash)
> there is a
> green fiber board with a printed circuit running up and down this
> board. Only
> time I've ever seen a printed circuit on a genuine old Sprite
> part!
> Seems to
> act as a resistance block. When checking between 1 and 2 i get
> about
> 35-40
> ohms resistance. With the switch assembled and switched off, I get
> close to 0
> ohms, with the switch on park or headlights I get the 40ish ohms.
> Cleaned the
> contacts, put the new toggle on the old switch, seems to all work
> well. Again
> the objective seems to be to possibly reduce the brightness of the
> turn signal
> indicator when the lights are on?
> Dan
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