"Thumbwheels" appear to be the proper terminology: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-Dodge-Fullsize-Monaco-Polara-Thumbwheel-AM-Radio-Serviced-Plays-Good-/221559503639?pt=Vintage_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3395f9bb17&vxp=mtr
Sent from my iPad > On Oct 7, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You lost me, Dan. Rollers on a radio? > >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> The first car my Dad owned after leaving General Motors in 1969 was a 1969 >> Dodge Monaco. He drove the heck out of that car but babied it as far as >> maintenance. He ended up selling it in 1973 or 4 with over 250k. That was >> pretty much unheard of at the time from what I recall. >> >> I don't know what engine it had, other than it being a V8, but I do recall >> the most significant work he had done on it was a valve job. >> >> Beautiful car, blue with white accents and several hundred pounds of chrome. >> As a kid I was intrigued by the "rollers" it had on the radio instead of >> knobs. >> >> Dan >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> > On Oct 7, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes >> > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> > >> > Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: >> >> Put it this way - one never hears anything these days about cars kicking >> >> the bucket at 100k miles. >> > >> > In the 70's, 100,000 miles was big deal, but my dad sold a good running >> > 1977 Nova with 144,000 miles and nothing but brake, exhaust and suspension >> > work done on it. The clutch was still in pretty solid shape. >> > >> > 60,000 was pretty much expected by 1970, and people bitched like heck when >> > 30,000 mile Vegas blew clouds of blue smoke. I suspect it's uncommon for >> > me to have put 232k on a 1989 Plymouth Horizon, but I don't see why any >> > computerized fuel injected car can't go 200k with good filters and a >> > manual transmission. And most anything made in the last 15 years people >> > expect at least 150k per automatic tranny. >> > >> > Mitch. >> > >> > _______________________________________ >> > http://www.okiebenz.com >> > >> > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> > >> > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > >> > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner >> > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has >> no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
