Repro Mopar Clock

[randroid]

Gents,

I want a wall clock for the garage, and mentioned to Lady Lynn I'd like one of those reproduction Mopar clocks, so she went shopping online but couldn't find anything from our era. Anybody got a clue where they might lurk?

-Randy

[BobT-47P15]

I got one.....is just a quartz plastic one......from a guy on ebay. Probably

over priced at about 24 bucks or so......but, ah well.

[Young Ed]

Here's a bad shot of mine. Its a repro with blue and white neon. Middle says plymouth dodge dodge trucks and dependable service in the middle. I could swear I had a direct picture of it but can't find it.

[BobT-47P15]

Shel.......whereza the linka??????

[BobT-47P15]

This one is about like mine......think mine is 9 inch diameter.

Just an everyday quartz clock with the logo added.

Link to seller http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Plymouth-Desoto-Motors-Dealership-Garage-Clock-Sign_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ10076QQihZ016QQitemZ260245462965QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

Now this one is a bit snazzier.......costs a bit more, but looks neater.

Link to seller http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chrysler-Plymouth-Neon-Dealership-Clock-Sign_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ10076QQihZ016QQitemZ260244180639QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

[randroid]

BobT,

I showed the pictures to Lady Lynn and we both agreed that we like the bottom one. Including S&H it runs $72 and it's taken her three days to convince me I should get it. After her cancer last Fall I've become a rather frugal person, some thing new to me after years of living alone and denying myself nothing, but I'm going for it and have just the spot in the garage in mind.

Thanks for the link; I'll send you a pic once it's in place above the chest freezer. You'd love my garage 'cause it's a one-car job and I have all walls lined with tool boxes and shelves and a workbench and a lawn mower and a VW engine and an un-exploded WWII bomb, and a chest freezer. We can both easily fit her 2004 Stratus into it with ample room to get out, so long as we want to get out the driver's door.

If my life got any easier I'd take a stick and stir it up 'cause it just ain't fun any other way.

-Randy

[Niel Hoback]

I would think living with a bomb in my garage would be exiciting enough. But thats just me, I guess.

[Don Coatney]

an un-exploded WWII bomb,

-Randy

How exactly do you know it is un-exploded

[Niel Hoback]

Well, if its still in one piece, I would guess it hasn't gone off yet.

[martybose]

A better question might be this: How do you know that it will remain unexploded?

Marty

[Young Ed]

Guys here's a better view of my clock. Looks to be from the same place I got mine from. I bought it at the back to the 50s swap meet. 1 color neon clocks were I believe 60 and dual colors like mine were 100. You pick the neon color and sign for the middle.

[randroid]

Gents,

Back in '89 I took some time from work and visited a friend of mine on the High Mojave Desert not far from Visalia (as memory serves me; if any of our members near the area care I'll check a map and be more specific). Anyhow, this friend was a retired teacher of Biological Sciences and held a Master's in Toxicology, having worked with the team that developed the antivenin for scorpion stings, and I tried to set a few weeks aside to drive from Colorado to California every few years just to take a desert walk with this fountain of knowledge. This particular year there had been three days of continuous hard rain just before I arrived so my first morning was spent on a five mile hike to observe the almost microscopic flowers that carpeted the valley and would all be gone within a week. As we were walking and observing we suddenly came across an asphalt side walk that seemed to curve toward the direction we were walking, but when I asked about it he simply said there must have been somewhere to walk to out there a long time ago. We continued and soon came across another asphalt sidewalk, only this one had a narrower radius. It also had a lot of metal shards beginning to appear around it. By the time we got to the third sidewalk I'd figured out we'd walked onto a WWII practice bombing range, which Ace confirmed with a nod and a grin. The bombs were filled with a colored powder and simulated the trajectory of whatever size bomb they wanted to drop. There was a small amount of charge in the tail fired by a pin that hit a primer when the bomb hit. (That's an over-simplification but it's close enough to serve my purpose.) Then he took me to a particular Cat-Claw tree and showed me where one of these bombs was buried in the desert sand half-way up what was left of its accordioned sides. Using some of the metal shrapnel around me as a shovel I dug it out and took it to my brother's home near Wildomere (Sp?) and he refused to let me bring it near the house until I was able to demonstrate to him that it was hollow and contained no explosives, no fuse, and the same amount of colored powder. I stayed with him another week and he was never easy about having an unexploded bomb anywhere near him.

Gents, I'm getting a little old to have a death wish, but it sure is a kick-in-the-pants to watch the reactions of those to whom I relate the saga of my unexploded bomb.

I'll send pictures if you'd like, but it's kinda ugly right now because somebody mentioned on this forum how to remove rust with a battery charger and some baking soda and since the pleated sides of the bomb have so much inaccessible rusted surface area I gave it a try and it works so well I want to build a tank large enough to do the whole thing at once, then used bronze rods as anodes and reverse the polarity so it could be bronze plated. I'm not to that stage yet so it has two different colors on it but the shape is still the same unexploded WWII bomb that smashed and was a dud. End of story.

Lord forgive me for all I've said about the Pygmies in South Africa.

-Randy

[Don Coatney]

Now I wonder what lot I have cast myself into. Fast Eddie Spaghetti has an 80 pound cannon ball sitting next to his computor and now Randroid tells his ordnance tale. I suppose next Norms Coupe will trade his coupe for a driveway tank:eek:

[Ed Griffin]

Too bad it wont fit into my 58.cal. cannon

[Don Coatney]

Too bad it wont fit into my 58.cal. cannon

Is that by chance a "BIG BANG" cannon? I have always wanted to get one of them but never have done so.

[Ed Griffin]

Not a Big Bang cannon even though I know the type your talking abt. Picked this up off ebay, "he he" one that got by them, a year ago or more. This is a 58cal. blackpowder cannon. Wheels are about 12 inch's tall to give you an idea of the size. I've seen those Big Bang cannons on ebay many times. This thing was made in Spain, purchased from someone in NH. No idea how old the replica is or what company made it. Been looking with no luck. After a good cleaning the wood was actually grey, not tan and after a sandblast of the cannon and some new paint it fit right in with the rest...

[David Maxwell]

...that I would use as a hall pass for my students. It was painted purple and gold (school colors), had no powder or primer, and no plug in th end so you could see it was empty. But that was before 9/11. No way that sort of thing will ever happen again. They would have a SWAT team in my room in minutes and I be would handcuffed and halled away to Guantanamo Bay. LOL!