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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: build oil presure before starting.
Message-ID: <2429@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 12:59:54 EST
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> Sometime back in the mid 1950s, American passenger cars converted
> to a combined ignition/starter switch which is now key actuated.
> As a boy I remember that I could mash the starter button on the dash
> board of my Daddy's '51 Chevy and it would crank over but without
> the key in the "ON" position, it wouldn't start.  Of course that was
> a while ago, and I could be remembering incorrectly. ??
> 
> Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}

You are remembering correctly.  Before that, there was a pedal
(about the size of a half dollar) on the floor.  Stomping on it
engaged the starter.  (Solinoid?  Whats a solinoid?)
-- 
E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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