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Found it under my '64 after doing all kinds of work on the car over the winter. No idea where it came from, but sure looks like a 53 year old part Any idea what it is and where it goes?
Thanks everyone! You guys are awesome and amazingly fast to respond. Help with AM radio noise eh? I take it each front wheel gets one. I'll put this one in and may not worry too much if I can't find the other one.
They're called "static collectors" and supposedly prevented the car from picking up a static charge. I never understood the physics behind how they are supposed to work, and they were abandoned decades ago.
Back in the fifties I recall cars than had "dragging hoses" installed by the owner. I think they were made of rubber and supposedly prevented the car from building up a static charge... never understood them either, and I lump them together with clothes pins on the fuel line to prevent vapor lock.
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Originally Posted by SWCDuke
They're called "static collectors" and supposedly prevented the car from picking up a static charge. I never understood the physics behind how they are supposed to work, and they were abandoned decades ago.
Back in the fifties I recall cars than had "dragging hoses" installed by the owner. I think they were made of rubber and supposedly prevented the car from building up a static charge... never understood them either, and I lump them together with clothes pins on the fuel line to prevent vapor lock.
Duke
They looked like rubber strips hanging down in the back of the car. thing was.....going 60 mph would generate enough wind to keep them off the ground anyway
And remember curb feelers? Looks like hell but saved your white walls and hubcaps form curb rash.
They're called "static collectors" and supposedly prevented the car from picking up a static charge. I never understood the physics behind how they are supposed to work, and they were abandoned decades ago.
Back in the fifties I recall cars than had "dragging hoses" installed by the owner. I think they were made of rubber and supposedly prevented the car from building up a static charge... never understood them either, and I lump them together with clothes pins on the fuel line to prevent vapor lock.
Duke
Slightly OT from Corvettes, but remember when tank trucks carrying gasoline would have a metal chain dragging on the ground, apparently to ground any static that might build up? I can't say they all did, but some of them did.
Slightly OT from Corvettes, but remember when tank trucks carrying gasoline would have a metal chain dragging on the ground, apparently to ground any static that might build up? I can't say they all did, but some of them did.
School buses do. And most heating oil and propane trucks do as well around where I live
They're called "static collectors" and supposedly prevented the car from picking up a static charge. I never understood the physics behind how they are supposed to work, and they were abandoned decades ago.
Back in the fifties I recall cars than had "dragging hoses" installed by the owner. I think they were made of rubber and supposedly prevented the car from building up a static charge... never understood them either, and I lump them together with clothes pins on the fuel line to prevent vapor lock.
Duke
Yup - static collector and to replace them is NOT cheep from what I remember.
They looked like rubber strips hanging down in the back of the car. thing was.....going 60 mph would generate enough wind to keep them off the ground anyway
they were to ground the vehicle at rest so that when you slid across the seat and touched the door handle you didn't get zapped...
The static collectors were installed on the Chassis Line, before engine drop, on radio-equipped cars;
St. Louis photos below show the cap removed to install the collector (it's sitting on top of the upper control arm.)
Whenever I have painted a vehicle I take a chain and drop it over the axle and to the ground. An old timer painter turned me on to that. Helps keep certain dust particles from being attracted to the car. I also tried this with parking a black car about 25 years ago to see if the car attracted less dust and it did in fact collect substantially less dust.
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Originally Posted by JohnZ
The static collectors were installed on the Chassis Line, before engine drop, on radio-equipped cars;
St. Louis photos below show the cap removed to install the collector (it's sitting on top of the upper control arm.)
John,
I find myself wondering just what you DON'T know about these cars.
Help identify this part please
Any idea what it is and where it goes? 
