[ARC5] responsibility to our posterity

[Bob Macklin]

When I got home from Korea in the summer of 54 I bought a 50 Merc club coupe 
from a friend that had just been drafted.

I had twin glass packs and lowering blocks. I put a 3/4 race Howard cam, a 
pair of Offehauser heads and twin carb manifold. While I was home ( SF Bay 
Area) I received orders to go to Albany Ga.

I had not been in Albany Ga. much more than a week when I got pulled over. 
As I was reaching for my wallet I found a 38 shoved in my face. The cop 
wanted to know what was in the trunk?

I opened the trunk and all that was there was my Craftsman tool box. The cop 
could not understand why the car rode so low!

The next day at the base someone explained to me about "TANKERS"!

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mstangelo at comcast.net>
To: <gewhite at crosslink.net>
Cc: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." 
<arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:40 PM
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> 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
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