Curb feelers

[jonlabree]

Check this one out. For all the older fellows.

Sounds dirty.

CHROME CURB FEELERS - SET OF 2 CUSTOM TOUCH Item number: 160095350195

[Oldsfan]

I work for a Chevrolet dealer. For some reason we recently had to get a set of aftermarket curb feelers for a customer's car. I guess they're having trouble parking it. Anyway, we got them in and they were laying on the parts counter waiting for a technician to come take them. Some of the real young guys didn't even know what they were, or where they should be installed... <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

[Vincent Vega]

I like the old fender marker lights from the 40's. You see a similar looking set up on Semi trucks these days.

[Guest smith356]

Back in the good old days when you didn't have the wheel wells invading the floor at your feet, and big fenders, it was probably much harder to judge where the tire was - and since you probably had huge whitewalls, you didn't want to scuff them. I believe they even had them with lights on the tips, if you wanted to go "custom". I also remember that it was cool to have rims painted red, showing between the hubcap and whitewall - or just running without hubcaps to show the world you were a "rebel". Musn't forget to have a name for your car and paint it on, too. Probably remove the front bumper to make it look faster, after you raised the front with coil spacers - don't forget the blue dots in the tail-lights !

[Guest TommyH]

i understand what curb feelers do, but where do they go?

[Guest tomt]

Tommy:

It would be great if somebody could get you a picture of them, but they go behind the wheel opening on the rocker panels in front, or on the front or rear quarter behind the tire in back. They should make a scraping noise before you rub the whitewalls against the curbs.

I think they went out of style while I was in college, as it always seemed to be my job at the end of the night. I got a lot of dirt under my fingernails that way.

[Guest MauiWowee]

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Now, someone want to go for "steering knobs, AKA suicide knobs"? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

[Guest DTerry]

No hubcaps meant "drag". At least in East Texas. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[Guest EDBS0]

[Booreatta]

oh yah nice photo,most just had a single feeler,yous has 2 most had just one. most curb feelers went out of style in the late 60's

[Guest smith356]

Removing the front bumper really meant "Drag" ! Can't forget coil spacers in the front springs and reversed shackles !

[padgett]

Depends on where you were

Photo taken forty yar ago. Trophies were not as big then.

[Guest TommyH]

where are the curb feelers? i dont see them

[89REATTAJIM]

Nice ride, Padgett. Should we tell Tommy H that curbs had not beed invented 40 years ago?? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

[Nick_Michels]

Steering knob works great on my tractor! Especially when snow throwing the driveways.

[Howard]

Curb feelers and steering wheel knobs got my thinking about another device of yore. The Traffic Signal Finder. These were used on cars, usually late 40's to 50's that had a sun shade over the windshield. You could not see the traffic signal because of the shade. The Traffic Signal Finder was a prism so you could see the signal without looking up. Then of course were the door mounted spotlights, like some police cars have today. If you could not afford the real thing, you could still fool the crowd by purchasing "dummies". Ah, the good old days. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Guest tomt]

A guy in Sycamore IL makes a pretty good living outfitting police cars for small departments. He also sells used ones, that typically have about 150k on them. But in most cases when you buy one for civilian use off his lot, you get two spot lights. What a deal. On the lot, and I'm told not for sale is an 89 claret coupe with the only nice aftermarket sunroof I've ever seen, 16 way seats. Unfortunately it's been sitting outside so long that the carpet is turning pink. It only had 20 K on it from what I am told

[jonlabree]

There used to be a closed Buick Dealer out there with two Reatta's in the showroom window. Randy and I were out ther last year to look at them. We were Not impressed.

[Guest tomt]

Not the same place or the same Buicks. You were close though, next street North about two blocks East. Both Buicks are gone now, I believe the owner kept the white convertible. The mechanic from there still works on my car when it's something purely Reattaish. Did brakes last year and installed new cruise control knob supplied by Jim Finn.

As I don't need another Reatta, I hesitate to push on the Claret one. If someone were interested they could PM me and I'd make some inquiries on their behalf or show them the car and let them work on it. Just kind of bothers me to see what seems to be a nice example sitting outside.