Re: WHAT COLOR SHOULD MY TOW TABS BE?
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: resto4u</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think the color was a safety reason. Walking around the car and running your calf into one of these things might sting and leave a good bruise. </div></div>

Sounds quite logical - learn something every day. Wonder why the traction / ladder bars were so bright? That had to be for 'getting noticed', [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

All this talk has me ready to unpack those NOS ladder bars I bought a couple of years ago - I couldn't find the thread where I bought them, so I don't even recall what type they are! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/eek.gif[/img]

Re: WHAT COLOR SHOULD MY TOW TABS BE?
 

Found pics of these NOS Chevelle ones form a 2009 SYC post. Your are orange too, right Marlin?

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/523...erbars1so3.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7...erbars5oz6.jpg

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Mine are yellow - I believe, [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img] I opened the box this morning, found the part number and the instructions. I know mine are not for a leaf spring car, but I planned to adapt them.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...partnumber.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...ctionsheet.jpg

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Anyone know where I can get pins for my newly bought tow tabs?Thanks.Bill.

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A good hardware or and Industrial Supply store will have them.

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I left the tabs yellow because that is what they were originally NOS. They contrast pretty good, IMO, with 70 Fathom Blue. But again, somedays I want to yank them off, other days I'm fine with the look. I suppose if I start seeing them all over the place, on every car I look at, that might sway me. My $.02

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Hey Paul, When you solve these NMW mystery what are you going to work on next? Good job with the information you have gotten!

Dan R.

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Nice to see you drop by Dan! There is some more NMW stuff to talk about. We'll see how long this thread drags on for.

Wanna take a guess how many people reached out to call the old NMW phone numbers? Speculation on my part, and I don't know the answer, but I would bet one dollar it's more than 1 person. When these old things can bring $300+ dollars it can be motivating to come out of retirement, or so I hear!

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/w...bs/nmwpman.jpg

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Matt K just posted a set of NMW 68 Chevelle Tow Tabs for sale here: https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbt...685#Post448685 Good luck with them Matt.

http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/o...o/DSC08608.jpg

These are an early number part and are silver paint, which I've loosely identified to possibly have been more popular color in the earlier production tabs.

These are the TB11 tabs. The ones for a 69 Chevelle are TB53. Big difference in the numbers, which got me to thinking. As a baseline, I know the universal tow tabs were pictured in print in the 1969 ad found in this thread. The universal tow tabs were P/N UTB-12. Is there any chance tow tabs TB1 through TB11 were actually produced all around the same time (or earlier)?

I'm not really sure if they made a TB1 or TB2, but TB3 identified the tabs for 55-64 Corvette and TB9 is the next lowest number on the reference sheet posted earlier in this thread. The TB9 is for 67/68 Camaro, which was a very popular car to race- ergo a popular chassis to produce tabs for ealier on. Maybe the UTB12 used to be called TB1, but I doubt it.

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My TB53's are orange


Tommy [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]