<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: XXXBlackLs6M22</div><div class="ubbcode-body">thats a neat photo of that fathom green LS6.
why did your dad put those mud flaps on the car?
to protect the paint?
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They did protect the paint, lots of people still lived on dirt roads back then
The flaps did a good job of protecting the area around where they were but if driven a lot on dirt roads the area AROUND got peppered as well ...
My 70 Z28 had them on it when I bought it, I suspect they were added when the car was painted in 76 or so ...
I kept them on because this is what I did with the car at least once a month ...
Here is a picture of what occurs (my L34 Z11, I used that before I got the 70 Z28):
after I painted my car black (from Forest Green), I got the black rubber/vinyl kind:
