I understand from my reading that aluminum wiring was quite popular in homes for a while over there. Late 1960s/early 1970s ?

It never really caught on over here, not in smaller cables for residential anyway. Probably a good thing from what I've heard.

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Originally posted by electure:
He also drove a Ford Pinto.

Isn't that the model that had the badly positioned gas tank that got hit in rear-end shunts?