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Post by Avenger on Oct 25, 2023 7:44:23 GMT -5
I've heard the legend, but never seen them. Likely the factory ones were probably just a metal flag that popped out of the pillar.
However rumor has it that some looked like pointing hands. 👈 👉
Maybe one of those clever aftermarket things.
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Post by rsmith on Oct 25, 2023 8:34:20 GMT -5
No they had lights in them and were factory. We’re in the pillar behind the doors. In 65 he traded the bug in and ordered a Square back wagon. That thing was a real POS Again picked it up in Germany. I went this time I was 9. The old man held it on the floor at 105 mph on the autobahn. 230SL Benz and 911’s passed us like we were standing still. He always got a new Caddy every 3 years and he had a 62 at the time that had 76k on it. He said it had blow by and needed a ring job. I don’t know how I remember this stuff. He was looking at 65 caddy’s that were around 5k. We went into the Porsche dealer in Stutguart a new 911 was 4 and they would pay the shipping. I begged cried rolled on the ground. My mom even was for it but in the end he didn’t think it would impress clients like the Caddy. That was the trip where I met my Uncle Helmut Schmidt he was a Panzer colonel under Rommel in the Afrika corps.
He was a pretty crazy guy. He was in his 60’s and had just married his 28 yo secretary. It was a crazy trip
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Post by Avenger on Oct 25, 2023 15:16:19 GMT -5
Dear God, we could be related! My Oma had a cousin Helmut and her married name was the same. Don't know if he was a cousin by marriage tho. When she got older and started losing ber marbles she used to mistake me for him. I can still hear her yelling at me, "Helmut! Komm herein! How wild would that be? Oh, and BTW. Mom's 190SL was a Deutschland delivery also. We still have the import plate:  Wish I still had the car.  |
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Post by rsmith on Oct 26, 2023 7:40:36 GMT -5
I wish I had them too. Pa inspection would make him take it off.
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Post by Avenger on Oct 26, 2023 16:39:34 GMT -5
Everything is on Youtube:
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Post by rsmith on Oct 27, 2023 6:52:03 GMT -5
That’s it apparently Pa inspection was a bunch of BS even back then.
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Post by Avenger on Oct 27, 2023 16:50:47 GMT -5
That’s it apparently Pa inspection was a bunch of BS even back then. I'm sure they didn't stick out past the fenders or the running boards, so if a pedestrian got hit by them they'd probably already been hit by something else. PA also has a no rust policy. If there's a perforation anywhere your vehicle will fail. Because, you know, that quarter sized hole in the fender of your pickup bed compromises the whole vehicle. To their credit tho, I do believe they dropped emissions testing. Apparently, they did something intelligent and compared the cost of emissions inspections to the number of failures and figured out they were spending approx. $20K of the motoring public's money on every failure. |
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