My '57 Super 2-dr hardtop had a little SS flap above the door glass--it flipped up when the door opened.

Chris Campbell

The text of the ad does say that it's a Special and not a Century. Not sure why it shows up that way.

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Interesting that the Photofact is dated 11-59. That’s almost time for the 1960 model years. There was a time when Magnavox kept their service info close to their chest. In the early 1970s I had access to the Sams collection at the U-M Engineering Library, and could not find schematics for the 1951 ...

Posting this for Greg, our Buick guy. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1565160088987141/?ref=notification_commerce_interesting_product It's a handsome old boat. My '57 was a Super 2-dr. hardtop, a rusty Michigan car but it started and ran and I've always wished I had kept it from the junkya...

When I had my sciatic misery, the only way I could walk with a normal gait was at the grocery store, leaning over on the cart.

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I'll bite. What's a rollator?

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Agreed on the generally high build quality of W-G. Airline electronics were popular, judging by the number I see, at least in the '30s. M-W had outlets in lots of smaller communities, like Sears.

Nice list. I ID'd my Taco transmission. And I read that Toyota's first automatic was a 2-speed torque converter model based on Chevy's Powerglide.

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Is that because the companies have stopped internal combustion engine engineering, anticipating that vehicles will son be all electric?

And do you suppose that your VW and my '25 Tacoma have the same 8-speed?

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That was interesting. I had no idea there were so many different Dynaflows.

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At work, we have an intake process for people seeking service. They must qualify by meeting various criteria. Some people cheat by picking my name (or others') off the phone menu and leaving me a message about their problem. It does not work. I simply ignore cheaters. For a while I'd pass the name a...

Interesting views. AS usual, the images and vice-over are often way out of sync. I was happy to hear it give credit to Harry Smith, Joe Bussard, and Carl Sagan's golden record project on Voyager, which is now in interstellar space and still reporting back to us.

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RCA jack ground goes to bottom and right pins on the diagram. Signal (RCA plug center pin)goes to left pin.

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I have the chassis in that model. It was in a huge cabinet from Liberty Music, a chain that Scott had some sort of deal with. Mine had a Lincoln both-sides record changer. That relied on rubber devises that were hardened and cracked, so I donated it to a mechanical music museum. The chassis, tuner &...

On the fuse subject, remember that the initial current inrush is greater than when operating because the tube filaments are cold and because the filter capacitors are charging. It's why the dim-bulb tester goes bright at turn-on then dims (we hope). Somewhere I saw a piece on calculating fuse size t...

By the way, bi-amping is a big thing in ultra-high-end audio circles these days. Magnavox was ahead of the game in that regard. I was always puzzled about why they never offered magnetic cartridges for extended high-frequency response. It would not have cost much and would have added some cred to th...

I'm not familiar with your amp, but I wonder if those pots have got gunky from nonuse. Maybe try rotation back'n'forth repeatedly, and maybe some DeOxit or similar miracle goo.

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Duke Ellington said, "If it sounds good, it is good." He was talking but music, but it applies pretty well to equipment. I'll bet the original owner burned up the horns by some form of abuse and had them replaced by a dealer. HF speakers are always more vulnerable to amp clipping than woof...

Handsome device!

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Chris always adds: send photos!!

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