Here's the new radiator...arrived today from Summit:

You guys wanta put this on the car?

OK...I give....WTF if that?

old.

Really? Nobody recognizes it?

It looks like an old detonator to me.

Dale

Naw... C'mon guys, surely somebody here is old enough to have seen one of these before. It *is* automotive.

no clue here.  looks like some sort of early battery, but not aware if early ones were a dry cell of some sort.

Some kind of a big capacitor?

Some kind of a big capacitor?

Well, it *is* an electrical component, and a very necessary one at that.

buzz box coil?

Well I guess it *IS*!

Yep! Rob got it, a Model T coil. Used by the old time hot rodders to add "flame throwers" to their tail pipes by running the lead to a spark plug in the exhaust tip.

Jim

I may be gettin' old, but I'm not any where near that old!

Oh yeah? Them high school kids may disagree with ya!

Bring it!  

Carl, you get across that old Model T coil and you'll be an old man. That thing will bite your butt in a flash and leave your hair grey.  Jim, think we should wire it up for flame throwers? That would get the folks at the British car shows rolling I bet. I guess I'm one of the old men in the group, recognized it immediately when I saw the photo, but the answer had already been posted. Once upon a time we used to charge up old condensers using one of those and leave them on a shop towel for  some mechanic to pick up. That's the sort of things those old timers taught me when I was a kid along with some more useful mechanical skills.

I got started on the Fiero seats this week. They are going to look good.

That's really good news Rick. It'd be great if you could post a shot or two of the work in progress. That's going to make a real nice improvement to the appearance of the car.

Jim

Here's what we're starting with.....



Fiero seats as found in local "U-Pick-It" salvage yard



...and a hint of things to come!

Fiero seat progress....driver side done (other than cleaning up and installing the seat rails).

And the seat bottom....

And here's the finished product. It sits lower than the original as the seat rails have yet to be installed. The Roadmaster driver seat was originally the Fiero passenger seat - and visa versa.

Very professional looking job Rick - didn't realize that you had that much talent.