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Originally Posted by robot

Anyone on LL? Tech should know this one....from his drag racing experience.

mike in tucson

I thought Skids answered that one with Line Lock in message #4

#4, we used an allen wrench or a drill bit
#9, They changed from leaded gas to unleaded gas????

NTFDAY already answered #1, but I grew up in Chattanooga,TN and spent a lot of time hanging out at Honest Charleys. Read this funny post about Honest Charley that I put in another thread, it's message #4.

Mike

Mike,

Line Loc was a Hurst item. B&M did the beef job on the GM four speed hydramatic...a monster heavy transmission.

You essentially got question 4 about the Hurst alignment...Hurst gave you an "L" shaped tool that was made from round material and fit into the notch in the shifter body. Everyone lost it so they used a screwdriver, hex key, or drill bit. I still have my Hurst tool but I never could find it to align the shifter!

Your #9 answer is not right...unleaded came in about 1973. Something else happened that changed gas pumps in about 1980 or so.

WOW, Jay got 4, 5 and 7. Some people called the road flares by the name of "smudge pots". The flares were really hard to see at night because their flame was so small. They also caused grass fires. You never see them anymore...antique stores just don't stock the greasy stuff.

Warshawsky was the guy who founded J.C. Whitney. They published the same catalog with the Warshawsky name and the Whitney name. Their building occupied an entire city block in Chicago (may still). If you bought some amount from them, you received about a million catalogs a year or so it seemed.

3 and 9 are still unanswered

Originally Posted by robot

Some people called the road flares by the name of "smudge pots". The flares were really hard to see at night because their flame was so small. They also caused grass fires. You never see them anymore...antique stores just don't stock the greasy stuff.

I have 3+ complete sets of "3 flares & and a mount", of the canister type that use to mount on the side of pickups & trucks. 1 set came on my '37 chevy pickup & 1 came one my '47 KB2 International, I bought the rest.

Pat