Re: IML: Wooden Wedge?

[David Whitney <hazegreen66@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not in either of the '66s, but I did find one in the trunk of the '50 DeSoto.  I had no idea it was "factory".

 

-- David

Ken Miller <kdmiller44@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Bob Smith wrote:
>
> Patrick: This has only a distant relationship to a wooden wedge on the 
> power steering pump but Chryslers in the '40s had a black wooden wedge 
> in the trunk along with the jack.
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> I have been wanting to investigate the wooden block thing for a long 
> time. To wit, I purchased my 61 Imperial convertible and my 64 New 
> Yorker Salon from the original owners. Both were very low mileage cars 
> (the 61 had 41,000 and the 64 had 51,000). It appeared that neither 
> spare had ever been out of the trunk (no scrapes on the paint on the 
> jack base
>  or on the bumper fixture).
>
> Now, in the trunks of both cars, I found the above-mentioned black 
> wooden wedge. I have always assumed that it was included by Chrysler as 
> an aid to block a wheel while changing a tire.
>
> Has anyone else found this wedge in their Imperial?
>
> Ken Miller
> 61 and 67 Converts (no wedge in the 67 and it had 47,000 when I bought it)
>
>
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