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DSYenko

01-10-2005, 06:49 AM

Cant figure out how to post a picture but I went and looka t a 69 Impala SS 427 convert tonight that had a metal box mounted on the trunk floor!It said "Safety Control" and also "Gyro matic auto control".I was a foot and a half long and maybe 5 inch wide/tall! I can send a picture to post if someone will do it for me,,what is it? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif thanks Duane

Mr70

01-10-2005, 06:52 AM

Send it to my email or PM me.
Rick

DSYenko

01-10-2005, 06:56 AM

I just pm'd you

Donutblue

01-10-2005, 07:01 AM

I recall my father telling in the 60's the police cruisers he operated had a long metal box in the trunk that acted as a gyro for high speed handling. If I remember correctly he told me they had mercury in them. It's the only time I ever heard of something like that.

DSYenko

01-10-2005, 07:04 AM

Im waiting for MR70 to email me so i can get a photo up here of it.The owner said it's "really rare" but isnt that what they all say when the buyer doesnt know what it is!

Mr70

01-10-2005, 07:25 AM

Here it is,I am not Familiar with it.As metioned,Maybe a civilian Police Or Military Police Vehicle?
http://www.yenko.net/attachments/115540-Picture%2520045.jpg

SS427

01-10-2005, 07:36 AM

Looks earlier than the late 60's. I have never seen anything like that in an Impala or any other Chevrolet of that era.
Rick

DjD

01-10-2005, 07:36 AM

sounds like some kind of aviation safty device

DSYenko

01-10-2005, 07:38 AM

"The book" says B07 = police car equipment!Im seriously doubting a 427 vert was a police car so it must have been a regular option.Wonder what else came with the package?

Bill Howell

01-10-2005, 07:45 AM

I saw something similar in the back of a 1972 elcamino(from factory) and was told then it helped the car from rolling over? It is some type of gyro but I never understood how it would stop rollovers. Makes sense though being in a convertible.
Duane, call the owner back and tell him it is Hazardous Material(mercury) and you will have to lower your offer http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

Schonyenko2

01-10-2005, 07:59 AM

I havn't seen one quite like that, but did seen one of those with the liquid mercury in it in the trunk of a 67 GTO. It also said roll control, but had a window kinda like a level to see the liquid mercury. I remember thinking what an environmental disaster it would be now if that stuff got loose. You'd never get the EPA clean up bill paid. Be careful. Schonye

Mr70

01-10-2005, 08:10 AM

Listen to Schony Man,he knows what he speaks..Soylent Green is people! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/mansonsmall.jpg

budnate

01-10-2005, 08:13 AM

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"The book" says B07 = police car equipment!Im seriously doubting a 427 vert was a police car

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dont ya remember "The California Kid"...some cops bought what they wanted for a car....

DSYenko

01-10-2005, 08:19 AM

There is a real good chance this car came from California as the original ex manifolds were laying in a box and they had AIR in them. The car had air condition so it was not a 425 hp car! I forgot to get the vin or I would know where it was born!

Schonyenko2

01-10-2005, 08:20 AM

I was younger, and prettier then. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/Charley.gif

DSYenko

01-10-2005, 08:24 AM

He had a way with the ladies! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

Mr70

01-10-2005, 08:58 AM

I really don't think that trunk item was part of the GM RPO-BO7 police package.
I just pulled some Ambulance & Police Brochures from 1967-73 & none of them mention it.Just springs & suspension etc.,but no trunk mounted Gyro with mercury.
Here's a link. (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:8AyEnVCi7mQJ:www.442.com/articles/88royale.html+bo7+police&hl=en)

DSYenko

01-10-2005, 09:04 AM

Was just guessing after someone mentioned police car http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

hvychev

01-10-2005, 09:08 AM

I am just curious as to what a box of Mercury would do to stop your car from flipping over? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

Mr70

01-10-2005, 09:08 AM

I know..me too.
It's been a long day here & for the Randy Mosses of the world today.
Goodnight.
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

Motion Camaro

01-10-2005, 03:03 PM

<font color="blue"> WERE OUTTA HERE MAN. </font>
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John Brown

01-10-2005, 04:41 PM

Ok, this 50 or so pound piece of ballast is really an anti skid device. There's a hunk of iron on the inside of that box, mounted on ball bearings, with springs on each end of the iron hunk to keep it centered. When the car goes around a hard corner the weight moves in the box and then the springs push the weight back to center after the car starts to straighten up. It's a inertia deal and it really does do what it's made to do. A friend put one of those things in a drag car years ago. It not only gave him better traction from the added weight, but it made the car stay straighter off the starting line.

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

Astock

01-10-2005, 05:14 PM

Schony,
Was it that Silverglaze/Red '67 GTO?
Theres no way a 2 ft. long antiroll/stabilizer box with a 5 lb ball rolling slowly from one side to another is going to help a 3700 pound GTO.
Also mounted around the grill area of that GTO,there was something funky, maybe for deer?

Belair62

01-10-2005, 06:06 PM

Wonder what the caution sticker is behind it ? Strange looking piece of equipment...

55chevy

01-11-2005, 03:33 AM

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Ok, this 50 or so pound piece of ballast is really an anti skid device. There's a hunk of iron on the inside of that box, mounted on ball bearings, with springs on each end of the iron hunk to keep it centered. When the car goes around a hard corner the weight moves in the box and then the springs push the weight back to center after the car starts to straighten up. It's a inertia deal and it really does do what it's made to do. A friend put one of those things in a drag car years ago. It not only gave him better traction from the added weight, but it made the car stay straighter off the starting line.

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

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Man.. I see and learn something new every day.. no matter how wierd.. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

Unreal

01-11-2005, 04:33 AM

I think a box of mercury in my trunk would reduce my rollover chances, because I'd be so scared, I'd slow down!!

Belair62

01-11-2005, 04:41 AM

I still don't get it...if I'm making a hard right...and so is 50 extra pounds of crap...where is it giving me better handling

Schonyenko2

01-11-2005, 07:19 AM

Astock, I am only telling you what I saw. I read the ad in the paper for a GTO. Went and looked at it. Was amazed as the guy remembered me from when I was in a band. The goat was gold. Had been hit in the rt rear qtr, had some rust damage, and the motor had issues. He opened the trunk and there was this device. I asked him what it was, and that was the explaination I got. I figured it was something out of JC Whitney.

camarojoe

01-11-2005, 08:21 AM

It's a flux capacitor.

SS427

01-11-2005, 03:29 PM

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firstgenaddict

01-11-2005, 04:55 PM

If it can produce 2.21 jiggawatts we can go back in time and thwart Manson's plans.

Motion Camaro

01-12-2005, 05:11 AM

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I think a box of mercury in my trunk would reduce my rollover chances, because I'd be so scared, I'd slow down!!

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Bill Pritchard

01-12-2005, 09:41 PM

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Wonder what the caution sticker is behind it ? Strange looking piece of equipment...

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My old 69 Impala convert had the same "Caution" sticker on it....before I redid the trunk. Must have come from the factory. It was just a warning to not store anything up on that trunk floor above the rear axle or the top could be damaged when it was lowered. Most likely damage would be breaking the glass rear window http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Don't ask me to explain how, but I think the weight on that anti-roll device goes the opposite way that you might think it would go when cornering. i.e., if you're making a hard right, the weight also goes to the right. I would not be at all surprised to discover that these were sold by JC Whitney or Warshawsky's or something similar http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Nite_Myth

11-13-2012, 12:15 AM

I have two. One new still in box. It is an after market device. In the '60's I §aw a video demo of car traveling minus one rear wheel and in perfect control.