Do you recognize this device?  It's supposedly an aircraft cooler. Does
   anyone know what type of cooler and which aircraft?   It was on a street
   rod at Cars & Coffee.  The owner has this as a fake part. Even he
   doesn't know the origins.
   Thanks.
   jd


   No idea.

   Paul Lamar

It looks to me like some kind of aftermarket hot rod item from maybe the '40s. The casting has a sort of almost hand-made, low-production level look to it. It seems that a true aircraft part would be different; more and thinner fins, for example, and more of a production item appearance. Maybe it's some sort of fluid filter.

By the way, it's not the first time I've seen hot rodders use unusual-looking pieces but not have them actually hooked up to do anything. At the recent LA Roadsters show at Pomona it was not uncommon to see High-Boy '32 Ford roadsters with small spun-aluminum Moon fuel tanks mounted forward of the grille, between the front frame rails, but have the lines leading to . . . nowhere. Just for show.

Fuller





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