Today I went with an idea of Nick's and it worked out so damn good! He called me the other day asking about putting a switch in his car to kill the radio like when you turn the ignition off. I thought it was a bad idea and told him so. After we hung up I got to thinking about it and it was brilliant! Both our cars radios are almost out of our reach from the drivers seat, mine under the glove box, his in the glove box. So if we need to turn it off to talk to a cop....last night for him.
Or to talk to someone at a stop light asking about the Rambler, it's a project to turn it off or drop the volume.
I called him back and told him how it was a great idea. And I have a few toggle switches that we can use. Guys, these switches were in my truck when I bought it over 40 years ago! They were the light switches the PO had put when he re-wired the truck. They were mounted on the dash at the stock headlamp location and the choke location right next to the speedometer. You can see them in the photo taken the day I brought it home Dec 1974.
I removed them in the late seventies and they have been in a box ever since! How cool is this, one is now in my Rambler to flip the radio on and off, I love it! It's an odd switch so it really brings back memories. In the truck one was mounted vertically to control the head lamps, the other below it was mounted horizontal to control the park and dash lights. I remember like it was yesterday clicking the bottom one to the right to turn on those lights and in one movement flipping the upper one up to turn on the head lights.
I was going to spend a bunch of time lengthening the piece that goes under the dash of the Rambler for it being I had an extra one. But decided to just mount it in the ash tray being I never open it at all. The other photo showing the ash tray full of marlboros is the one I was going to use, it's from out of the my parts car.
When I put the car in the Barrett Jackson auction I'll swap ash trays.
Brian