On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:26 AM, Adam Lindenbaum wrote:
You should be looking at the road not at your clock while you are driving.
Adam(Sorry, couldn't resist that one)
..You forgot to mention the Pertronix, hiding away under the dissie cap.I can't see the Diamondbacks, either, when I'm driving
the car, but I sure can see and hear, that real clock, ticking away, in the dashboard.
Neil Vedder
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On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Adam Lindenbaum wrote:
The most important thing is that we enjoy our cars and not worry if someone else doesn't like the fact that you don't have correct
date coded air in the tires or that there is mud on the frame, or that the clock has been converted to quartz (which is how this thread
started), it's YOUR car, do with it what you want. If someone didn't like your hair cut or shirt would you be concerned and change
your appearance?
Adam
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When I was a little kid ... with that singularly focused way of noticing things like little kids do .... I was totally fascinated by the little
gnurled knobs on the wing vent latches on my grandparents 50's GM cars. While I have rather vague memories of other details of
the cars, I remember those like a vivid photograph. Were I restoring one of these cars, those latches would be particularly restored
to "perfection" because that is a point that drew my attention early on.
Another "detail" I remember from my youth was the "hippies" (we lived in S.F.) taking their beat up old fin and bathtub cars and
painting them all up with what is now considered iconic lettering and symbols, many having the wheels and tires painted as stars
or flowers that spun as the car rolled by. Countered by my Grandfather's impeccably kept 50's Buicks, these Hippy Cars were the
worst in ugly to my young eye, and ever since getting in to old cars, the most insistent point I make with them is having correct
wheels and tires on them, even going so far as to put one of my good cars up on jack stands and using the wheels and tires and
hubcaps on a car I am pulling out of a field. I have even been known to refuse to drive a car because I don't have the right tires
for it.
So, while the clock thing isn't MY bag, ... I certainly understand how we all have our own little insistent details we want "just so".
Burger
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