A friend bought this car from a museum where it had been setting for 25 years. It had been through a cosmetic restoration before that time but had not been started anytime recently. We tow started it and it ran, but after a few minutes we got a stuck valve and had to put it away. It is currently undergoing full mechanical and consmetic restoration at a local shop.
My part was to restore the car's
clock and speedometer.
I received this from a previous neighbor that he had retrieved from his first house. It is a 1930's or 1940's electric clock/door bell combo. When you push the button, a second Telechron rotates a selector switch to play the first 8 notes of the Westminister chime. The selector switch activates four solenoids to strike the tubular chimes hangining below the clock's hood. A little clean-up and a new clock Telechron was all it needed to become ready to use again.
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Another friend is an Olds (and Corvair) nut. He brought this dash mounted cruise control head for restoration. These things appear to fail in three separate ways and I had to address them all.
Olds Cruise Control Head Restoration
