Funny what you find in cars you just bought...

[Tilar]

I bought a 73 Duster and found this while looking for a build sheet...  

How many know what this is used for? 

[hatersaurusrex]

Imagine how different you'd have felt if you'd been stopped and searched and a cop would have dug that out.  Yipes.

[nvrbdn]

oops officer   

[chargerboy69]

What is it?

[nvrbdn]

 

[nvrbdn]

the pic isnt clear enough, is there scale digits on there also?

[b5blue]

  Back in 1980 I had a 73 Duster. One drunk night my girlfriend took a Polaroid of my "junk" while passed out in bed. I woke the next morning to see it laying next to the camera. In a panic and not knowing "what to do with it" I ran down stairs and stuffed it in the carpet seam between the bucket seats of the car.
  A few months later the car broke down near a bar by a bridge so I pushed off the road by an embankment. It was pouring rain as I walked home and I got so sick I didn't get back to the car for 2 days. I found the car, tires slashed, drivers window busted out and battery stolen buy cutting the cables. The drunks from the bar had had a field day with my poor Duster and heartbroken I went into work sharing my sad story. A guy I worked with knew my car and offered 700.00 cash that day to buy it right where it sat so I sold it.
  He repaired it and I started getting "updates" like the throwout bearing was what broke, got a used window installed and then one day he walked up and said: Hey my wife would like to meet you! I said: Oh good she likes the Duster then! He said: No she found this when I asked her to give it a good cleaning....It was the long forgotten close up of my junk he was handing me back.....
Boy did you give me a "Flashback!"
b5
   

[Tilar]

the pic isnt clear enough, is there scale digits on there also?

Yes Sir, there are. 

[Tilar]

  Back in 1980 I had a 73 Duster. One drunk night my girlfriend took a Polaroid of my "junk" while passed out in bed....
b5
   

LOL, Man what a "flashback! 

[Tilar]

What is it?

It will give away habits from many many years ago, but it is a set of scales for weighing a bag of weed. 

[Tilar]

Imagine how different you'd have felt if you'd been stopped and searched and a cop would have dug that out.  Yipes.

Somehow Homer Simpson and "DOH" comes to mind. 

[John_Kunkel]

What is it?

It will give away habits from many many years ago, but it is a set of scales for weighing a bag of weed. 

With a built-in roach clip and coke spoon?

[Patronus]

That's what you steer a boat with at night!

[Tilar]

What is it?

It will give away habits from many many years ago, but it is a set of scales for weighing a bag of weed. 

With a built-in roach clip and coke spoon?

Roach clip and counter weight so the scales will work.   

[ws23rt]

I'm impressed. you guys know these cars and much more. This goes with the car as well as any trim item.
But there is another thread for that. Let's see it was--uh--I'm hungry.

[Ghoste]

Haven't seen one of those in years.

[70moparman]

Those are for high school kids ~ its all about the digital scales now...  (Just guessing  )

[Cooter]

I believe one could and may still purchase "Carburetor scales" used for setting up carb's...I know when I worked for Federated auto parts, we'd have about 3 of these types come in asking if we had "Carb scales" in stock.

Answer: "Sure guy. What size carb are you working on, cause there's about 50 different ones".

The look on their face was priceless.

[F8-4life]

Great convo peice, whip it out during a smoke sesh...todays generation of stoners will get their mind blown.

[Tilar]

I believe one could and may still purchase "Carburetor scales" used for setting up carb's...I know when I worked for Federated auto parts, we'd have about 3 of these types come in asking if we had "Carb scales" in stock.

Answer: "Sure guy. What size carb are you working on, cause there's about 50 different ones".

The look on their face was priceless.

lol, I forgot they were for weighing carb floats to see if they were soaked up. Probably had something to do with the other use they had. 

[mauve66]

but are you going to put it on display with the car at the show......................................

[Tilar]

I dunno, Maybe I can pass it off as a rare option available only in the 70's.   

[4cruzin]

So that is where that went . . . . 

[kab69440]

I believe it is simply a postage scale to make sure you paste enough stamps on your letter. Nothing nefarious about it.

[mauve66]

see, your car once belonged to a future Postmaster, what history.................... the roach clip was for holding the envelope???.................