What is it?

[Motion Camaro]

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

[John Brown]

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.

[55chevy]

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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.



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Man.. I see and learn something new every day.. no matter how wierd..

[Astock]

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]

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

[Bill Pritchard]

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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

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

[Schonyenko2]

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]

It's a flux capacitor.

[SS427]

[budnate]

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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....