Another car questions + opinions

[MadMan]

LOL yeah I know

hub caps have been removed
engine flywheel/torque converter
and auto transmission available
for extra cost of $1800

Typical morons. Think they have a gold mine.

[Telecolor 3007]

Sheesh, I din't payed atention. I thought the engine was included.
True that stuff is rare, but with 8,000 bucks I think you can buy an unrestored car.

[Telecolor 3007]

But does any one haves photos with old hand singnals? Like you see here from 7:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPLgZqP0Hts
When do automobiles in U.S.A. started to had turn signals and how did they looked?

[Electronic M]

Atleast as far back as the 30s turn signals were available on some cars as an option, and on any car as aftermarket modifications. I think they remained an option until the early 50s then became mandatory on new cars...IIRC in some places if you own a car that never had factory turn signals you don't have to add them.

[MadMan]

Wow I didn't even know it, but the hand signals have changed a bit from back in the day. We are still taught hand signals in driver's education, but they are only left turn, right turn, and stopping. Presumably if your lights are out, you should use hand signals.

As for the year they became mandatory, I'm not getting a clear reading. It looks like 1955, but I think it might have been different for each state.

I can't seem to find any photos of old aftermarket turn signals, though I'm sure many still exist. I recall when I was young, my dad was fixing a 1930's Packard, and it had an aftermarket signal switch on it. It was just a turn signal stalk that you clamped to the steering column, and presumably some lights to mount on the outside of the car.

[Telecolor 3007]

In U.S.A. the autombiles didn't had trafficators?
I was wondering if you could install heating on cars that don't. I found that you could. Now here's something intresting: http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/forum...c6e48c7f860809

[Telecolor 3007]

Do you know this chanel? https://www.youtube.com/user/USAutoIndustry/videos
Here is another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCEmhR_QTgs

[old_tv_nut]

I didn't know of it, but I subscribed now - thanks

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Atleast as far back as the 30s turn signals were available on some cars as an option, and on any car as aftermarket modifications. I think they remained an option until the early 50s then became mandatory on new cars...IIRC in some places if you own a car that never had factory turn signals you don't have to add them.

Back when they weren't all that old I had two 1951 cars , a Chevy and a Plymouth . Neither car was built with factory installed turn signals and the Chevy already had the aftermarket retrofit signals installed before I bought it but the Plymouth didn't . I ended up tracking down one of the turn signal kits for the Plymouth , it was a unit that clamped onto the steering column and required rewiring the brake lights into combination brakelight / turnsignals , the kit had new wires that ran to each bulb in the trunk and to the front running lights (which needed their sockets changed from the single to dual filament bulbs for the turn signals) .

Fun fact , both cars were 6 volt electrical systems with tube radios . I of course had the radios working perfectly and had taken an FM converter , used a small 6 V motorcycle battery in series with the car's 6 V to supply the converter with the 12 V it needed , and headbanging metal was happily blasted to the general disgust of most of my fellow commuters

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by init4fun

Back when they weren't all that old I had two 1951 cars , a Chevy and a Plymouth . Neither car was built with factory installed turn signals and the Chevy already had the aftermarket retrofit signals installed before I bought it but the Plymouth didn't . I ended up tracking down one of the turn signal kits for the Plymouth , it was a unit that clamped onto the steering column and required rewiring the brake lights into combination brakelight / turnsignals , the kit had new wires that ran to each bulb in the trunk and to the front running lights (which needed their sockets changed from the single to dual filament bulbs for the turn signals) .

Fun fact , both cars were 6 volt electrical systems with tube radios . I of course had the radios working perfectly and had taken an FM converter , used a small 6 V motorcycle battery in series with the car's 6 V to supply the converter with the 12 V it needed , and headbanging metal was happily blasted to the general disgust of most of my fellow commuters

I've seen a couple cars with those kits.

Lol. Planning to eventually have a 1940's GM (or Nash) fastback in my future about a year ago when a fellow member brought a bunch of converters to a meet I bought 1 each of FM, SW, Police/aviation/fire converters.
Depending on how I feel I may do that and or rewire the original radio...A year or so back I took a late 40's mono Magnavox home console and upgraded it to stereo. The process involved adding sections to the band/function switch of the AM/SW/preamp chassis, reworking the preamp for stereo, adding an FM MPX chassis (to work with the factory FM tuner), swapping the 60's VM someone cobbled in with a Magnavox badged Colarro Conquest, and a installing a second matching PPP 6V6 amp chassis to it (the results were pretty awesome )...Part of me, if I ended up with a messed up enough car radio, would like to do something akin to the what I did to the Magnavox and custom build an AM/FM stereo tube car radio with powerful tube-based amp unit based on a car radio chassis that is beyond hope for resto...I'd also really like to get one of those RCA 45RPM car changers.

[init4fun]

I will be looking forward to your 40s car , I 100% agree that there was an elegance about 40s and 50s cars that has yet to be recaptured .

[Telecolor 3007]

I wish me for a '30's-'40's car, but I want a British one.
So in the early '50's you still had to do hand signlas when driving?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

I wish me for a '30's-'40's car, but I want a British one.
So in the early '50's you still had to do hand signlas when driving?

If your car didn't have signals (and other cars and or police were present) yes....even if you did have signals you had to understand them when other drivers used them... nowadays there is probably a rather large portion of the driving population that wouldn't know hand signals if they saw them...

[Telecolor 3007]

In Europe I think allsmot all cars had some kind of turning signal by the early '50's.

[bgadow]

Steering column mounted turn signal units were still showing up on heavy trucks fairly recently though I'm not sure how compatible they are for use on a car. Signal Stat is a popular brand; a quick search shows they're still available, and pretty cheap.