----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
To: "Mick VanderPloeg" <MVANDERPLOEG@nc.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:26 PM
Subject: Fw: Fw: Early BN4 slide box
> Mick,
> Are these hooks not on both sides of the top frame?
> Anyway here are a couple of photos courtesy of Derek Job, who answered
> almost the same question a while ago for another BN4 owner. Hope these
> help.
> Derek, if you see this can you add anything here to help Mick?
> Rich Chrysler
>
> On Lonbridge BN4's, there's a hook welded to the bottom of the top frame
> on
> the driver's (left) side of the car. It hooks into a rubber "grabber"
> exactly
> the same as the ones that hold the hood and trunk prop rods, and helps
> hold
> the top frame up. Judging by the number of early BN4s I've seen with this
> hook broken off, I'm assuming it wasn't the best designed part on the car.
> Not surprisingly, my hook was missing when I bought the car, so I bought a
> new
> one from the Nocks. Now that I'm ready to weld it on, I have no idea at
> what
> angle it should be positioned relative to the top frame.
>
> Does anyone have some close up pictures they can send me, and/or a
> protractor
> to check the angle between the frame and the hook?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mick Vander Ploeg
> '57 BN4
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