What the Heck Is It ?

THAT'S a LOT of engine swapping for day!
 
....but a year later she came home with a mint ruby red '62, topping anything I could come up with.
She was always out-doing me.

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Yamadude, I just found this thread and have no problem with you using my idea but maybe you should have called it "What the V-dub is it?" lol.
 
Hhhmmmm....perhaps I should ramble around Dads old toolbox...
 
Yepppers. Dads tool box supported a him, a wife and 5 kids plus a few pets back in the day....He wrenched on recips and jet engines for American Airlines from the later '40's to '77 or so.
 
Okay, diggin' around, found this.

From that ancient period of time I like to refer to as "BM" (Before Me).

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Should be obvious *what* it is.

My longtime mystery has been:
Where and on/in what was it mounted/installed?

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Well knowing you , and your un believable collection of all things aircraft, I'm going to say it was mounted in an airplane. Am I in the ballpark?
 
....I'm going to say it was mounted in an airplane.
Very possible. ADF radios used AM freq. band. Knob on the right tunes the radio station and (missing) knob on left tuned the antenna for direction....
2" seems a little small for a car... but about right for an airplane.
 
Dial for AM. Makes sense. Motorola has always been big in radios. Looks like there might be 2 threaded holes to mount the dial to a dash. Maybe the other side large hole held the rotating cable to the box where the tubes of the tuner/amp of the radio was. Lower mid opening would be for a socket for a backlight.
 
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