A really dumb question!
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A really dumb question!
I can't work this one out, so I'm leaving myself wide open for ridicule 
On my '81 there is a large metal bracket type thing that hangs on the underside of the very front of the car. What is this thing for? What is it's purpose in life? All it's done so far is to completely demolish a fancy low fence in a pub beer garden (as I reversed out, I watched as a small log fence, a couple of rose bushes & a length of Ivy followed me across the car park :lol: )
Paul
On my '81 there is a large metal bracket type thing that hangs on the underside of the very front of the car. What is this thing for? What is it's purpose in life? All it's done so far is to completely demolish a fancy low fence in a pub beer garden (as I reversed out, I watched as a small log fence, a couple of rose bushes & a length of Ivy followed me across the car park :lol: )
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Re: A really dumb question! (UKPaul)
I can't work this one out, so I'm leaving myself wide open for ridicule
On my '81 there is a large metal bracket type thing that hangs on the underside of the very front of the car. What is this thing for? What is it's purpose in life? All it's done so far is to completely demolish a fancy low fence in a pub beer garden (as I reversed out, I watched as a small log fence, a couple of rose bushes & a length of Ivy followed me across the car park :lol: )
Paul
On my '81 there is a large metal bracket type thing that hangs on the underside of the very front of the car. What is this thing for? What is it's purpose in life? All it's done so far is to completely demolish a fancy low fence in a pub beer garden (as I reversed out, I watched as a small log fence, a couple of rose bushes & a length of Ivy followed me across the car park :lol: )
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Re: A really dumb question! (UKPaul)
It's under my '80, too and is part of the bumper brace. It might have been a tie down location for shipping the car. That's pure speculation on my part.
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Re: A really dumb question! (Tim80)
What? You didn't know about the famous roto-tiller option for the 81s? :lol: :lol:
Sorry - I couldn't resist, but someone else with a late C3 will help you. :seeya
Sorry - I couldn't resist, but someone else with a late C3 will help you. :seeya
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Re: A really dumb question! (Tim80)
Its a rectangular shaped thing with a sort of hook shaped bit hanging down from it (it looks like it should be bolted onto a yacht somewhere).
Yeah, I thought the horticultural Vette experience was funny - but the pub Landlord was far from amused (I had to leave it a couple of weeks before I went back there :lol: )
Paul
Yeah, I thought the horticultural Vette experience was funny - but the pub Landlord was far from amused (I had to leave it a couple of weeks before I went back there :lol: )
Paul
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Re: A really dumb question! (Marks69BB)
What? You didn't know about the famous roto-tiller option for the 81s? :lol: :lol:
That explains why there aren't hordes of women hanging round it - I'd better drive it out into the country & start hanging around some farms :lol: :jester
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Re: A really dumb question! (UKPaul)
Lol very funny...but no clue of what you're talking about. Maybe if you has a picture? I dissasembled my front bumper lately and didn't see such a thing but then again I have a '78 which isn't the same bumper.
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Re: A really dumb question! (UKPaul)
UKPaul,
The "ground tiller" on the front of the car was originally intended to keep the front air dam off of the ground. It was originally designed so that the painted panel sat on top of the long, skinny part and would allow the panel & lower air dam to "float" up in case of an impact. If your lower air dam (the black flexable rubber pieces) ate still in decent shape, you can see that there is a rectangular notch out of each where they come together in the center. The problem is that USUALLY we hit the bracket and this bends it up & destroys the panel.
The "ground tiller" on the front of the car was originally intended to keep the front air dam off of the ground. It was originally designed so that the painted panel sat on top of the long, skinny part and would allow the panel & lower air dam to "float" up in case of an impact. If your lower air dam (the black flexable rubber pieces) ate still in decent shape, you can see that there is a rectangular notch out of each where they come together in the center. The problem is that USUALLY we hit the bracket and this bends it up & destroys the panel.
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Re: A really dumb question! (Alwyn678)
Jim:
Thanks, all is now clear.
Alwyn678:
Don't do it!!! I had a few last night & now I feel terrible!!
In fact, we went to the same pub. Luckily I went incognito (in the back of a Volvo :( ) as the Landlord is looking for the owner of a loud, white, fancy car, with a keen interest in gardening :yesnod:
Thanks, all is now clear.
Alwyn678:
U guys are cracking me up maybe I need a beer or two
In fact, we went to the same pub. Luckily I went incognito (in the back of a Volvo :( ) as the Landlord is looking for the owner of a loud, white, fancy car, with a keen interest in gardening :yesnod:
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Re: A really dumb question! (Alwyn678)
that is cause u home boyz are drinking that black syrup.....That stuff is wayy stron....I like the Brown Bombers myself..I am a Newcastle Man
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