Traction bars

[Nova_Guy]

I just found these a couple days on Craigslist. I got them home and repaired some slight damage they had. I sandblasted and primed them to stop the rust from getting worse. I had two sets now; one set I'm going to put back on my car and one to hang on the wall.






These are the ones that were on my car when I bought it in 1985. I sanblasted and repainted them a couple weeks ago. I'm removng the old school ladder bars floaters I put in the car in 1991. I twisted the housing in my car at the dragstrip and I'm going back to traction bars.

[169indy]

Took about a year to get my $35.00 swap meet find Ground Grabbers, stripped of many layers of black and red paint to base metal, cleaned up, dressed very minor burrs and sent to the platers for a quick zinc DiChromate plate job and installed. No sandblasting! Only Chem cleaning. There was an indication they were plated at some time during manufacturing. Additionally When touring a local Speed shop in Seattle (Relocated in Monroe Wa) Jim Greens performance Center. There is a Neat vintage photo of the store-counter front and on the wall are ground grabbers and I asked Jim Green if he rememberd selling them and he commented they were a "GOLDEN" color. This also prompted me to proceed with the plating of the bars.

Before


After


just learning to post pictures also

The decal is a fake I had made up based on the logo in a print ad from a car mag of the period.

installed on a 68 Camaro w/ multi leafs and Mr Gasket clamps on the front also.

Have not test drove the car yet.

Jim

[Salvatore]

great job returning them back to the proper color! Its fun to do the research!