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After many years of searching in the darkest, remote, war torn reaches of the world, I have here for your wonderment and enjoyment….The Best Timer For The Model T Ford!

The Best Timer was made in the 1970s, apparently it was a good reproduction by all accounts from old timers who know a lot about old timers.

It looks like a New Day timer. Only the name is different.
Norm

ThreePedalTapDancer wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 04, 2021 6:05 pm

The Best Timer was made in the 1970s, apparently it was a good reproduction by all accounts from old timers who know a lot about old timers.

You are messing with us. I wont bite yet.

Les Schubert apparently put 15k miles on one of these timers as read in a previous post

https://mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3811

And it is still working great. It has been on my 27 roadster for about 40 years. I typically hand crank start it on mag!

Yup. New Day is a dandy timer by any name when correctly made with materials that stand the gaff.

I think the Best timers were made by Gaslight and they were fantastic, we sold hundreds of them with no problem, I think their suppliers lost the molds back in the 70's, great find, Bob

I guess there were a couple of versions, pure Bakelite, brown plastic with zinc screws, and grey hard plastic with zinc screws. Here is a pic of the brown with zinc screws.