[ARC5] responsibility to our posterity

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Stock car racing was an outgrowth of the prohibition era when bootleggers souped up "stock" cars to use them for the unintended purposes such as outrunning the revenue agents andeventually for racing.

This is like the Ham radio expermenters in the '40's and '50's who soupled up the surplus radios to use them for a different purpose.

Modifying surplus radios is a part of the mil surplus radio history and should also be preserved.

Mike N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: gordon white <gewhite at crosslink.net>
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment. <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:37:09 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [ARC5] responsibility to our posterity

	   I  am also involved woth a group that owns old racing cars, going 
back a hundred years. Some are indeed elegant pieces of machinery, like 
front-wheel drive, supercharged Miller Indianapolis cars of the 1920s. 
Most of us feel an obligation to treat them tenderly (though we drive 
them!) and restore them correctly. But some are very junky-looking 1950s 
modified stock cars. Frankly, I like the idea that even those are 
preserved and restored.
  - Gordon White