Where is everyone #5

Not sure if these ones were original or not. Would have looked good in my soon to be freshly landscaped front yard lol.

 

Started to ring ancient bells.

I worked at an auto electrician place 35 years ago in NZ and there were still a lot of 1960 - 1970 English cars on the road. I never fully understood electrical systems and still struggle, but I remember many of the vehicles had 6V systems and a generator, that were converted later to 12V systems - with an alternator, and ballast resistors, coils, points and condensers were all involved. I learned enough to be dangerous.

My first car was a Mini, Austin or maybe British Motor Company (BMC) - they had an east west mounted 850cc ,1000cc or (SPPPEEED RACER) 1275 cc engines where the distributor was faced toward the front of the car. With a missing rain guard on them, you'd find them on the side of the road when it rained. A hero was the guy with a can of CRC 556 or WD40 that opened the hood, popped the dizzy cap, sprayed and wiped, started it up, and retrieved the young lasses phone number with a wink.

I could fit a full size 5 piece drum kit in that little shoebox on wheels.

 

Never heard it called a dizzy cap…..I like it

 

Can I use that?

I'm sure the context wouldn't be right, but the wife would get all worked up if I laid that line down.

 

Can’t remember the name, but there is a school in Ohio that has some of the originals from the J.I Case plant after it shut down. Seems in my mind they painted them black and purple to match their school colors…..

 

I had been drinking so not sure, but seem to remember popping the dizzy cap on a gal I was messing with years ago….

 

I recall those. But I don't remember working on one. Now the ford neverspark. Oh sorry Duraspark box.

 

Well - if you want to get all colloquial with this one -

"Yeah mate - she was stranded out on the road , all dripping wet and stuff, and - I sprayed down her dizzy cap and she was all up and running again"

"Yeah mate - well, . . . good looking sheila?"

Yeah - got her number, she looked like she was fizzing at the bung to go down the pub on Friday and get some Fish and Chips after, eh mate"

 

You ain’t gots a hair on your cheeks if you won’t touch that round thing I’m talking about while it’s running and your grounded good. I promise ya you’ll feel lighting jump from you to the fender

 

I was 13 and my younger brother kicked over my 1981 Cr125 with magneto while I was holding the plug wire. Might have lost hair or stunted my growth.

But those Mallory mags in the 410 sprints would light your shoe laces on fire. Ol methanol alcohol takes a big spark.