Automobile Industry
Remembering the Nucleon, Ford’s 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was
The Schrader & Engo-Flator spark plug air pumps.
Here is the easy way to inflate tyres with the new improved Schrader Spark Plug Air Pump which eliminates all the physical effort of hand or foot pumping. The pump body is fitted to the engine in place of a spark plug and the thumb lever connection at the other end is attached to the tyre valve. When the engine is running slowly it pumps cool, clean air at the compression figure of the cylinder used. The Spark Plug Air Pump has many uses in providing compressed air facilities away from garage and service station and is invaluable to motorists, caravanners, farmers, truck operators, fire stations etc. Apart from tyres it can be used for inflating air mattresses and pneumatic boats, maintaining pressure in pressure water cisterns and tanks from which paint or garden spray guns are operated. Two models are available - standard type and the gauge type.
April 1, 1970 – AMC introduces the Gremlin – This Day in Automotive History
After Ford and General Motors announced they were both on the verge of launching new subcompact cars for 1971, the suits at AMC had to speed up development of their competitor. Though faced with time limitations and financial windfalls, they came up with an answer. AMC engineers took the existing AMC Hornet and shortened its wheelbase from 108 to 96 inches (2,743 to 2,438 mm) and cut its overall length from 179 to 161 inches (4,547 to 4,089 mm), then added an almost vertical hatchback. Their efforts gave birth to the AMC Gremlin, introduced to the general public on this day in 1970.
Fifty years ago today, the AMC Gremlin was announced to the world. Both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush drove Gremlins.
February 25, 2020 03 PM Update
Why Positive Earth?
"What is the rational for a positive ground system? Is there an advantage of one system over the other? My car has a positive ground".
The short answer is, there is no functional reason why any car needs to have positive earth. The real reasons are rather twisted, based in prior historical tradition, so now you get a history lesson.
How Cars Divide America
Urbanists have long looked at cars as the scourge of great places. Jane Jacobs identified the automobile as the “chief destroyer of American communities.” Cars not only clog our roads and cost billions of dollars in time wasted commuting, they are a terrible killer. They caused more than 40,000 deaths in 2017, including of some 6,000 pedestrians and cyclists.
But in the United States, the car plays a fundamental role in structuring the economy, our daily lives, and the political and social differences that separate us.