and a thought came into mind i have to say/ask. Do you think that any of the people assembling our cars ever thought that it would be restored 35 years later, become a show car, or a kids first car generations later? Kept me busy for the rest of the day. Also i have a question, i asked my dad last summer what this blue thing in the corner of the engine bay is. He said it was an old coal filter of some sort for the emissions. Its located in the back passenger side of it. I just pulled it today and was playin with it but didnt want to break anything just incase i needed it. any clue? I can get pics if needed
Its called a VAPOUR Cannister. A lg hose from the air breather and a small rubber hose to a steel line that goes back to the top of the gas tank.Carries vapours to the tank to be burned off later,
The coal canister is used to vent the gasoline fumes from the gas tank into the air cleaner housing. No real reason to remove it. As for the people assembling the cars, I work at Kubota where we build tractors all day every day. I'm around hundreds of new tractors every day. The only time I ever really think about anything like that is like if there is something special about the tractor. A while back when we were gearing up to build a new model of tractor for this year, I painted the pre-production test units and then a little later the very first production tractors of that model, starting with serial number 00001. I wondered at the time where that tractor was going, who was going to buy it, what they were going to use it for and weather they would even notice it was the first one ever. Other then stuff like that, their all just tractors. After a while you just don't think much of it, I'm sure it's no different building cars. We have engineering changes every now and then too, and I'll use up every last one of the old parts and then switch over to the new parts. That always makes me think about like when they changed over from the package tray to the glove box dash mid year in '73, or went from small bumpers to midsize bumpers to big bumpers. Somebody somewhere was installing those parts on a line, and knew exactly when and what car the changes occurred on.
I talked to at least 20 retired St.Thomas assembly workers last weekend at the car show, they all thought it was awesome that I had a Maverick there (even if it was a Kansas car, which I told each and every one of them) Each one of them had to show me what they did on the assembly line..most were amazed that it still existed. Most guys that build cars day in and day out, could care less about the cars, compared to a paycheck.
My next door neighbor put bumpers on the Mavericks at St.Thomas, he said it wasn't long after they started the 74's that he bid on a different job.
You may want too start a new thread about this - it would get more exposure to casual readers of the forums.
