craigslist score....

[MoboMac]

Picked this up on craigslist last month....

Was working...when parked 30 years ago...

Found a similar one in a 1955 Fairbanks-Morse catalog.....priced at $754.00.

That was a lot of $$$ back then.

 

[John T]

It's only a "score" if you tell us how much you paid....

 

[Cee3PeeOh]

That has got to be the fugliest electric range I've ever seen.

 

[Orangestang]

Is that a turntable?

 

[LXCam]

That's a cool console radio, where are the speakers

 

[JMLangford]

It's a jukebox.....



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[Strouty]

It looks like an electro shock therapy control center.

 

[powerwagon63]

Distributor tester?

 

[BFBOB]

I'm baffled. Looks like some kind of rotary gizmo - alternator/generator/starter tester??

 

[MoboMac]

It's a synchrograph......for checking/setting the advance curve, etc. on pre-computerized distibutors

 

[Lassen Forge]

Distributor tester?

Ding ding ding! Winner winner chicken dinner.

We had one in our high school autoshop - you could pre-set up and test any distributor on that beast, if you are into pre-EI vehicles, this is almost a must have if you're doing hot rods and other cool stuff like that. I did my Mazda R100 dual plug special dual distributors on one just like that - drove the teacher nuts until he found out the car had dual dizzys, and they were set different.

(And somehow you got the impopression I was a nice girl? ha ha ha!!! )

So... how much did it set you back? C'mon, dude, spill it!

 

[txvwnut]

Looks like a old kitchen appliance. I have an Allen Synchrograph but much newer than yours and a benchtop model.

 

[MoboMac]

Ding ding ding! Winner winner chicken dinner.

We had one in our high school autoshop - you could pre-set up and test any distributor on that beast, if you are into pre-EI vehicles, this is almost a must have if you're doing hot rods and other cool stuff like that. I did my Mazda R100 dual plug special dual distributors on one just like that - drove the teacher nuts until he found out the car had dual dizzys, and they were set different.

(And somehow you got the impopression I was a nice girl? ha ha ha!!! )

So... how much did it set you back? C'mon, dude, spill it!

150 bucks.......(spent my whole allowance on it).....

 

[bluebolt]

Cool find! I had an old Sun distributor machine a while back.

 

[Packard V8]

Found a similar one in a 1955 Fairbanks-Morse catalog.....priced at $754.00. That was a lot of $$$ back then.

$6,965.86 today.

jack vines

 

[rsanter]

Cool and a very good price.
The question is, did you buy it to use it or to restore and look at it