Thread: Vintage Showcase

Anyone who wishes to post pics or vids of their most prized vintage vitems or restorations reply/attach them here. This can be items you have already posted in other threads. I am trying to get a single thread going to show off the rarest and best. This will be a sticky and serve like a muesem for the vintage section of the site.

Ill start out with my NOS in box Dietz Physicians Lamp, likely from the 30's or 40's based on mounting instructions.

The original "Green" light

Very early vintage NOS, NIB Model 17 Federal Enterprises Inc. Beacon Ray, 6 Volt, with NOS split blue/red dome.
Blue was meant for the front, and red for the rear.

Sireno Model 166 MityLite NOS permanent mount.

Whelen Flash Beam Early 1960s vintage.

3 NOS Dietz 7-61

3 Whelen Model 44 Senior Deputy Rota Beam

Federal Signal Twinsonic CTS lightbar from the T.V. show "Code Red" starring Lorne Green.

Also my NOS green Twinsonic dome.




Federal Signal beacon ray 175 dealer display.


Unity Dealer display with 10,300

Here are my favorites

Movies of

Oscillating Commander
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6M1YSQ8B_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdasgjQr42U

Sireno 300 "wobble light"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNVdFKl ... re=related

Not rare, but more of an evolutionary example of vintage equipment:



All three are blue-faced Federal Interceptor electronic sirens, each with a different circuit board and different sounding wail and yelp tones.

Left: PA20 (early to mid 1960s), low-pitched tones.
Centre: Early PA20A (late 1960s), slow rising low-pitched tones.
Right: PA20A series 2E (1970s), high-pitched tones.

That Sireno Mity Lite is Mity fine! I've gotta dig out my collection, display it, and take pics. NOS Powercall and a Mars Clarion II siren are probably my best items.

Undercover light bracket. 1960s-1970s vintage. fully adjustable height and angle. Hooks over driver's side window.
Roll it down hook the UCLB on and roll it up.
Dan

Originally Posted by dmathieu

Undercover light bracket. 1960s-1970s vintage. fully adjustable height and angle. Hooks over driver's side window.
Roll it down hook the UCLB on and roll it up.
Dan

I have never seen that application before

Me neither, looks rather cumbersome when the Fireball could simply be placed on top of the roof of the vehicle when needed.

Could have been used with permanent mount lights, on convertables, or the old vinyl roof coverings, and to raise the light above roof level, or to eliminate scratching of the roof by magnets. The bracket instructions show the light being screwed to the bracket. Also remember that the old mag. mounts, like on the Fire Ball, did not hold really well a higher speeds. This is more secure.
Just some thoughts. It's a rare and interesting piece. I remember when they were in the catalogs.
Dan

Originally Posted by dmathieu

Could have been used with permanent mount lights, on convertables, or the old vinyl roof coverings, and to raise the light above roof level, or to eliminate scratching of the roof by magnets. The bracket instructions show the light being screwed to the bracket. Also remember that the old mag. mounts, like on the Fire Ball, did not hold really well a higher speeds. This is more secure.
Just some thoughts. It's a rare and interesting piece. I remember when they were in the catalogs.
Dan

I used to have a 1967 Chevy Impala with a vinyl top. The magnets they put on the "mag mount" lights of that era would not have held through the vinyl...

I recall reading some informational paperwork where Federal advised the little swivel piece at the front of the base on the original 3 magnet Fireballs that had a small hole in it was intended to hook onto a screw in the top of the vehicle roof to keep it from flying off vinyl roofs. I always thought that to be odd since I can't imagine anyone wanting to put a screw in their vehicle's roof.

Yes, many of the manufacturers of that time had the same type of device, including Dietz and Signal Stat.
Dietz, and Sig Stat's studs were a good deal larger than the small screw sent with the Fire Ball.
Dan

Glass, "bee hive" type lights

Trippe HB-1

Mcdonald ans Arneson Traffic Mastre 4 way flasher

My wall of beacons

Fav Vintage pieces:

NOS Powerlight

Unity beacon w/Spitfire dome

Assorted Whelen-

Dietz

NOS FB-1

Code 3 #500

Can anyone tell me how to add photos to these threads??

Originally Posted by fiafighta2002

Can anyone tell me how to add photos to these threads??

I have made a how to
http://www.elightbars.org/showthread...to-attach-pics

Just some of mineIMG_4245.jpegIMG_4246.jpegIMG_4243.jpegIMG_4244.jpegIMG_4242.jpegIMG_4245.jpegIMG_4246.jpegIMG_4243.jpegIMG_4244.jpegIMG_4242.jpeg

Please move all showcase items here to the actual showcase app on the site, linked at the top of the page.