[C2] Identify This Picture
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Identify This Picture
Identify what's going on here. It's got a name.
The winner gets a ball of duct tape that used to hold the seat together on my '71 Hodaka Wambat.
Edit: Frankie, you are exempt----I heard of it first from you!
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I suppose in a way that reefing as adapted to "shortening the doors' reach" may apply.
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If I remember correctly this crease/bulge was referred to as the "Crinkle".
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Correct, but it was actually more than the dimples. I guess some doors were bent inward so much that it created (or made deeper) that horizontal crease. And if you look to the left of the crease you can see a bulge that the bending created too.
If I remember correctly this crease/bulge was referred to as the "Crinkle".
If I remember correctly this crease/bulge was referred to as the "Crinkle".
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Yup, the crease is clearly visible on my 63 on both doors. It apparently created issues with the side windows then rolling up which required more tweaking..
I read that somewhere in either a Dobbins or Noland Adams piece...
IIRC by the time GM got 'their legs under them' to correct the roof mold error, midyear production was ending so the problem was just allowed to slide...
I think I got all that right...
I read that somewhere in either a Dobbins or Noland Adams piece...
IIRC by the time GM got 'their legs under them' to correct the roof mold error, midyear production was ending so the problem was just allowed to slide...
I think I got all that right...
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Right Frankie, I read the same thing and in alot of cars the bending of the doors inward made some windows get stuck in the tracks 3/4's of the way from closing!
They discovered the molds were out of spec by a hair causing the misfit.
They discovered the molds were out of spec by a hair causing the misfit.