Mystery Part, Assistance is Appreciated.

I have 2 of these boxes, they both contain vacuum tubes and have two pigtails. The identification on it says Guide C6, model no 560. I believe they may be for the radio on a Cadillac, but not sure. They are not sealed so they wouldn't be for under the hood, so they must be from under the dash. I have searched and searched and came up with nothing. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

PS I think they came off of different cars.

 

Hey, Carshow girl, I would guess their radio related, possibly for an add on speaker for the rear seat.

But then again, It says guide on it which sounds like lights, or headlights....
Mabey this is the control box for the autronic eye... The headlight dimmer system with the eye-pod (not I-pod) that sat on the dash.

I notice some of those wires are green and blue, which I belive were headlight high and lowbeam wire colors. One pigtail would go to the headlites, or dimmerswitch, and one to the control on the dash. This is my guess...

 

Seems like just a couple weeks ago some other Cad owner found 1 of these under their hood.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432515&highlight=cadillac+box
I'm startin' to think maybe Al Qaeda could be behind this. They get 'em into all our big American luxury cars and then.....

 

I think you answered your question in your title, there mystery parts...
I only know one guy that would know and he doesn't do computers. He's 85 and has a mind like you would'nt believe and has had a junkyard since the 30's and his dad was a blacksmith. Amazing family!

 

flux capacitor for your henway....





Ah hell someone had too...

 

If it is to make a time machine, then it looks like I am getting a 59 caddy! woohoo

I checked the other thread, and it looks like it was never solved.

 

Regulator for GM's Autronic Eye ca. late fifties???

 

Thats what we were thinking but my 56 doesnt have anything like this. These were bought at a swap meet.

 

they go in the EP catigory ...extra parts

 

Hey thanks, I will have to re-file them. Right now they are in the WTF category. haha

 

look at ebay 160398298119 and see if it helps you figure this out.

 

Even though the model is c5, it sure looks like it. Thanks for your help. I guess the next question is does anyone have a wiring diagram that includes this, my shop manual on my 56 has nothing.

 

I looked a bit more on the web, seems the Guidematic was used from 58-66.

I'll look in my 61 chevy manual.

 

it's not in the chevy manual.

I did find a short section about auto headlight dimmers in the 57 caddy manual, but it's the older Autronic Eye, not the newer Guidematic that you have.

 

Thanks for your help.