Phase III super Spark CD boxes

[PxTx]

OT, but I have two sisters, Eileen and Monica. Monica is the youngest and sorry- she's married. Her Nova is finally rolling along again and should be getting warapped up within the next year if things work out.

Here is Eileen's Camaro. She built it as a teenager and has been done for almost 15 years!


Both girls were heavily involved in building their cars.

[PxTx]

Reviving the thread with a cross post form another.

The "other" popular motion ignition box seemed to be Mark Ten B as seen on these two cars






I've heard they were or were similar to an equivelant HeathKit. Nice to see these old boxes also working on these cars.

I'm not sure if there was a rhyme or reason to which box would be used, but I really think the black box looks the best.

Popular Science Dec 1974

[whitetop]

PXTX
Grant (The maker of steering wheels and helmets) made the boxes for Joel-or most likely Joel bought the boxes from them and added his own decal. Grant was selling these ignition boxes back in 1968 and they were black and were 100% identical to the boxes Joel sold.

I always thought Jacobs did not even start as a company until 1973-1974 ish anyway-and they said they got their their start due to the 1970's energy crisis?.

Jacobs was the one that probabaly got the box molds from Grant when they got out of the CD ignition business and concentrated on steering wheels.

[JoeC]

Motion used the Grant CD box and Grant did the decal and made a special instruction booklet with the Phase III logo on it.

[Nova Jed]

Like some have posted earlier about manufacturers, most of todays parts have slight improvements over the past. Good stuff!

[Verne_Frantz]

My '69 Road Runner always had trouble starting in damp weather (you could spit next to that car and it didn't want to start!) I installed a Delta Mark 10 CD unit and I never had another problem. Also, the points lasted 3 times as long. It was the same unit as the Heathkit. They were offered with and without a red button on the side to disable it while tuning so the dwell meter could pick up the signal. I collected a few of them over the years but never hooked one up again.
Great idea at the time.
When I bought my last '62, it came with one and the original owner saved all the literature for it including some correspondence he had with the company regarding how to make the factory tach work with it.
Verne

[PxTx]

Just found where the Grant ad was form. Mayhem posted form an August 1970 Hot Rod mag seen in his thread here: https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbt...674#Post470674

Thanks Mayhem!

[JoeC]

I believe Adam's booklet is the one that Grant did. It is shown in some of the old Motion ads for the CD box.

Original CD boxes with the original Phase III decal are very hard to find. In many years of collecting, I have only seen three of them.
Two were found with Motion cars and one I found at a LI swap meet many years ago and I still have it.

Some of the repop decals out there are not correct.

[BACKN 68]

This pic is in several mags, but I tried to scan it form the new Motion book in hopes it would be a little clearer. Does anyone know what it might say? My pop is speculating it might have the ignition tune data.

I read it as:

PRODUCTION UNIT ????
ASSIGNED TO BO LAWS
FOR TESTING AT NHRA
WINTERNATIONALS

[Hemicolt]

Now that is good vision. I believe you are correct.
Now everyone will be using their label maker and adding something like this to their boxes.