Re: [Chrysler300] Clocks

["Johnl" <john@xxxxxxxxx>]

John and all,

Putting the clock issue aside I NEVER leave a battery connected on my
collector cars even overnight.  I keep six cars in my garage, four of them
being collector cars.  They usually have pretty close to full fuel tanks and
I don't want to experience a fire due to some short or freak accident.  Can
you imagine what 6 X 20 gallons of fuel could do in a confined area.  Our
remaining cars are kept at my business under the same disconnect format.  I
don't want to get a call or arrive to find the building burned down to the
ground.

Possibly you think this might be an over reaction, but I'd rather take the
few seconds to disconnect that deal with the potential.

See lots of you next week in Maine,

John Lazenby
Southern California, just minutes from Disneyland
1955 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe Town & Country
1955 Imperial Newport
1955 Chrysler C300
1956 Chrysler 300B
1957 Chrysler 300C Coupe
1960 Chrysler 300F Coupe
1963  Volkswagen Beetle

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hertog" <crossram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pennsy300@xxxxxxx>; <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 6:52 PM
Subject: [Chrysler300] Clocks


> Hi Terry,
>
> I beg to differ.  I always leave the battery connected in my 300G rag over
> the winter; probably because I am too lazy to disconnect it. After 3,4, or
5
> months of sitting, the battery is still good, the clock is still going
> "Tchunk - tic - tic - tic " , and, since the "G" has an electric fuel
pump,
> it starts right up even after a long period of time . I also believe
(maybe
> wrongly) that keeping the clock running may help to preserve its
mechanical
> integrity. It can't draw much power, the clock...
>
> Of course, one could easily hook up a trickle charger to the car, even
with
> battery disconnected, and that would be enough to keep the clock operating
> thru the long (ugh) winter months.
>
> Buy you a beer in Maine...
>
> John Hertog
> Sag Harbor NY
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <pennsy300@xxxxxxx>
> To: <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:05 PM
> Subject: [Chrysler300] Clocks
>
>
> Interesting reading on the clocks in our Brutes.  One comment:   for those
> of
> us who use our cars primarily for intertainment, and may have them  set
for
> two or three weeks at a time without starting, the constant winding of
the
> clock can run down the battery.  I think that the quartz clock  mechanisms
> use so
> little current that that should never be a problem.   Terry McTaggart,
some
> seven days before heading off to  Maine.
>
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