HI Roy,

On Thu 2012-Jul-12 08:49, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Y'all:

Roy> One of my neighbors died in Feb and left a parking lot full of cars
Roy> behind. The day that I saw a crowd gathered in his driveway, I went
Roy> to investigate why. I happened to engage a friend of the family who

Roy> Weekend before last, his widow came by to say that the GMC was now
Roy> un-encumbered by the court and told me that she was giving me 1st
Roy> choice and that she'd take $2500 obo for the GMC. I test drove it
Roy> and it ran well, rode well and it had all of the immenities for a
Roy> 'tow vehicle' for my car trailer and race-car. On top of it being a
Roy> low mileage burb at 98k, it had been well taken care of through a
Roy> family friend who has a repair shop on the other side of town.

Nice find!

Roy> She also mentioned that you had to turn off the radio when you
Roy> parked it, because it wasn't tied into the on/off accessory of the
Roy> ignition switch. She also mentioned that ole Les would remove the
Roy> faceplate when he parked it. I found the reason for his madness, as
Roy> when you remove the faceplate, the radio shuts off, then when you
Roy> reinstall it, the radio is on. No need to find that on/off switch in
Roy> the dark and the radio stays in the last mode that it was being
Roy> used.

HEy, cool tie in for 2 way equipment.  I'll bet he did that
to go direct to the battery and eliminate a lot of
interference issues.  Probably separate fused lines.  I'd
investigate whether that has enough power for your
ham/cb/other two-way gear you might wish to install,
especially since it's intended as a tow vehicle.

Speaking of which, I need to beef mine up a size or so just
to make sure, since if a family member kicks the can over up north we'll be
making a run, adn I want hf mobile on the
road.  GOtta get by a truck stop and get one of those
hustler mirror mounts that I can mount on the spare tire
rack on back door of van, put my three stingers hustler
mount on there.  I've got 40 and 20 meter hustler resonators ready to go. 
I probably should get one that's a 102 inch cb whip as well, and an 80.

Again, nice find!


Regards,
           Richard
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