He drove a big ol' Pontiac, looked something like this one (above), though it was a little scruffier. He'd also taken the back seat out, supposedly so that when the trunk was loaded with moonshine, the back end wouldn't sag, which would have been a dead give away to them dad burn revenoors. He was out drinking and shooting shotguns with a friend of his one Saturday night and he let the weight of the shotgun rest on his trigger finger. It went off, aimed right at his foot. Didn't lose his foot, but screwed it up pretty bad.
So I go looking for pictures of moonshine runner's cars and I find this one in a collection of photos.
I've never seen a radio like that one. I thought the staggered double row of knobs on the upper right side of the faceplate were knobs, but Jack thinks they are pushbutttons used to select the channel.
Coincidentally, Posthip Scott sends me this photo of a fancy antennae.
It's a little hard to make out until you look at the full size image, but there are a whole series of wires strung around the ends of the X frames. I am not sure what these antennaes were for, but this was still early days of radio, so they probably didn't know either.
AM has mostly disappeared here (Germany/Europe) and FM will soon be replaced by digital radio.So the museums for old radio receivers generally now have their own weak transmitters (range less than a mile) by special license.
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That is a hacked BC603 tank radio.
The buttons select the crystals used aka channels.
They had two way radio when likely the feds didn't
or at least not many.
Eck!
AM has mostly disappeared here (Germany/Europe) and FM will soon be replaced by digital radio.So the museums for old radio receivers generally now have their own weak transmitters (range less than a mile) by special license.
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