Waiting for spring and watching videos just solved a puzzle. After carrying this piece on my keychain for 60 years I found out what it was used for. Flathead carb linkage, who knew. Maybe easily recognized by flathead people but a mystery to me. I never asked around that much for the info on the part. It was just a neat con-rod lookalike to me. I laughed aloud when I spotted the piece on the Leno video of the Pierson Bros race coupe and the flathead mill. How wild is that, just a neat story I can tell.
I used to have a broken K&B 0.21 CID connecting rod on my keychain, about an inch long. My nitro powered Radio Control 55 Chevy threw a rod one day and ended all the fun.
Back in 1966 I carried a small Crescent wrench (Crescent brand) on my keychain. I let my girlfriend take the car one day as she wanted to take her sisters and some friends shopping and some kid while trying to hit on her asked why she had a wrench on her keychain and she just said "the keys are for my boyfriend's car" and that was the end of his chances. That was the same day a state patrolman walked in where I worked and asked where my car was. Told him that my girlfriend had it and was headed to do some shopping. He said, no problem, He had spotted a car load of girls in it and had never seen anyone but me drive it. That car was seriously well known to the state patrol in that area.
you’ve been on the HAMB for (almost) 10 years and didn’t think to ask…….. If you lose it, - speedway motors have them……..
About asking what it was...I thought the piece was the throttle pressure control on early Olds Hydro-Matic 4-speed transmissions. I had the trans in my 40 Ford DeLuxe coupe back in the 60's. My friend, an auto trans builder told me that it was close but the Olds piece was serated at the clamp, where the flathead part is smooth. Not knowing about flatheads, I just let it go as unknown, til now. And if you look close there is a key, thank you. And another thing the other rectangular piece is a key holder from the one and only NICKEY, with a backward K, Chevrolet from Chicago my home town. Also no pocket snagging has occured.
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