Duh. It's a horsepower transfuser. Used during the oil embargo of the 70's and into the early Malaise era. You'd take one end and connect it to a Buick and the other end to another, less fortunate, car. Since we all know most Buicks have horsepower to spare, the less fortunate car would be started and run at half-throttle for exactly 11-teen minutes. Just before the 11-teen mark, the Buick would be cranked and the engine turned off right after ignition. That was enough to double, in most cases, the HP of the recipient car. The problems became evident when it was discovered that any and all HP gains evaporated the minute the two cars were disconnected, but many users insisted otherwise; that the gains were long lasting (mostly owners of Yugo's and Mustang II's). It began disappearing from shelves during the advent of fuel injection (as mentioned earlier). I got this info from my neighbors hairdressers mailmans tax preparers sisters old reform school roommate, who got it off the internet, so you know you can believe it.:Smarty:
So much for all the "speculation" . Right out of a mid-70's J.C. Whitney catalog. If you added every JCW device to your car to improve mileage gas would actually flow OUT of the filler hole when you'd take the gas cap off! :grin: Plus double your HP! If only you could go back to the "good old days" of expensive $.60/gal. gasoline!
Good job Mike! It took 12 years to figure this one out but leave it to this forum, it DID get figured out.
Great job guys. Now on to the next item I need an answer to. It was in the workbench of a house I bought decades ago and have never figured it out. It is serrated on one side of the tapered jaws and smooth on the other. What is this wrench for? Mikey
I stumbled onto this thread .... lol If there's a place to stick the best threads ever this one belongs in the archive.
You're probably not too far off the mark; I could see that as a sort of a K-Tell sort of a gimmick which is supposed to work off metric bolts as long as the operator had the strength to hold it in perfect position. If anything, it's a great knuckle killer.
going over the whole post, once again, Im not only struck by the humor but at the sudden and complete disappearance of quite a few frequent posters of the time .. .. not even a goodbye burnout o No:
Ken was also a male model, this is what he wrote about his gig for the introduction of the Renault 5 "Le Car":
