Re: A strange Clipper

Posted by HH56 On 2010/3/26 8:30:34

Interesting variations. I've also seen the dummy knob as it was on my Caribbean before I decided to change to a switch and rear fan plate (which am not using)--but thought it was only on senior cars. There was a 55 relatively bare bones Clipper locally where a dummy knob was not there at all on underseat side--just a blank plate. Unfortunately no longer around to look at it again but am curios now.

Instead of the head end of "stud" for want of a better word being behind dash and stem protruding thru with the slotted nut holding the triangular plate and then the knob, this one was just the reverse. The conical recess in the plate was filled with a smoothed type head and (assume) a regular nut was in the back. Never looked that closely at the setup to see if possible but wonder if it was the same piece and could be reversed. Also am wondering if maybe it was early car and something changed in production because the blank only side did look rather plain and unbalanced. To my mind, almost as bad as just slots on the other side looks.