While ordering tune -up parts from Summit racing, I was told the condensor would be 350 clams. I said it shouldn't be more than 5 bucks. He said his book listed it as 350. When I explained to him where the condensor resides, he apologetically said he knew of A/C condensors only. These millennials!

 

Funny story!

 

YOU OOOOOLLLLLDDDDDD FART!!! U must be an old ET or summfin.......

The modern word is Crap *** it or.......

Even I call them caps and get done with it......

I remember many decades ago if the cap had a lot of MFD...Micro Farad to it, it was still called a condenser
smaller then one MFD was a Cap......

 

Electrical capacitors were called condensers up until the 1920's.
So... how old are you?
:-)

 

Go to the SUMMIT site and plug "condenser" into the search box

drop-down gives many options ... mostly re AC

But #2 in list is "Distributor Condenser"

Choose that and Summit shows nearly 200 distinct part numbers for distributor condenser

https://www.summitracing.com/search/...r%20Condensers

I worked in an auto parts house as counterman when I was in school ... back then (most cars on road still had points), we sold many ignition condensers ...
... and when someone asked for a chevy condenser ... we automatically assumed it was for his ignition ... and we were right ...
... I'm a boomer and some of the men I worked with would become known as "greatest generation" ... Things & times change.

back then (pre-China), parts stores sold relatively few AC condensers/evaporators/driers.
back then, they still sold many cars & trucks without AC.

I learned what a condenser was at age 11 ... when I tore down my first motor ... condenser was under flywheel of a junk mower ... LONG ago

While it's annoying the counterman misinterpreted the condenser request ... it's likely same counterman knows all about later parts I've never even heard of.

 

66. But I dunno. Points and condensers go together like Chevrolet and apple pie!

 

ME, age 75.5 about age 8 or so, I started building crystal set radios, and by age 10 I graduated to a 2 tube battery operated radio.....4 D cells for A batts, one 90 volt battery for B battery.....

about age 13 or so it was an old lawnmower engine, horizontal shaft, on a wooden go cart buddies in the hood and I worked on, winter snow sand washed down hill to an intersection, WE invented drifting, these kids today dunno crap......

 

About the same time 'BRAKES' became Breaks.

Capacitors were 'chokes'
Condensers and Condensors.

Differentials were pumpkins.

I asked a Millennial which way was NORTH...he pulled out his Phone!

kids!

 

When I parked the Pig the other day a party asked me if I was afraid someone might steel it. Nope, nobody knows how to drive a stick these days... (My daughter being an exception!)

 

see, I knew not all Corvettes were fiberglass !

 

Interesting that door panels are now called by some door cards???

 

Ridiculous ... I think it's because one stocky limey used car salesman got himself a USA car show on motortrend ... folks started hearing his doorcard stuff ...
... then another girl on USA garage repair show on MT mimics the limey, even another USA car shop with a USA show on MT started mimicking the limey and ... here we are

Blame motortrend and folks who are fool enough to believe half that contrived BS.

 

My Corvette does not have a boot. Fenders are fenders not wings. It's a hood not a bonnet. Only @#$%/'s cal them dizzy.

 

Here in the UK i’ve never heard anyone call them anything other than door cards

 

Motor head here since '66 and have NEVER heard them called that, even 53 years in the Wash DC region with all those Dip LO mats running around.....

 

Door Cards are what Boris Johnson puts on your front door when he wants you to vote crazy!

I grew up in 'Ol Blighty and I know of what you speak....the door cards are stacked next to the Whitworth spanners, on top of the wing, near the boot which has a tyre in it!!

Tell you what...when we're talkin' Jag-u-ars....they're door cards....When Talking Corvettes they're door panels!

Cheers and happy Hal- o- ween

Unkahal

edit...I have had older Frogeye Sprites (Bug-eyes here) and they really DID have a door-card....it was a piece of CARD-board covered in the thinnest vinyl possible. So I think that's where it came from.

 

^^^^ THIS^^^^ 110%

And that's 110% AOK for folks from UK because that's what folks in UK have always called them.


I'm a native of Southeastern US, but have owned / worked on several English bikes, cars, trucks; had to interpret service manuals.

Distributor ... I dislike "dizzy" as well. When I write, I usually write "distributor" or "dist" for short.

But when I speak it, my lazy southron tongue does so with what's customary 'round here: 'strib-u-deh

With Rare exception, no racers 'round here use term "dizzy" (I'm talkin' distributors here, not dems) ... there is a family from England who moved here and partnered ...
... in the restoration of a derelict, almost-forgotten dirt circletrack. Both English father & son had racecar experience and I did hear them use the term "dizzy" ...
... that's the ONLY in-person usage I've heard of "dizzy." Partnership ended; Brits out. Track was improved and paved with asphalt ... cool ...
... A local family (Barfield) were original partners and continue a great job of improving track and bettering regional racing as a whole.
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