<VV> Vair stories and dingleballs

Andy Clark slowboat at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 5 23:08:27 EST 2007


I have a dumb question.....just what are Dingles? Some kind of little furry
animal? I think one is building a nest in the Jag.<G>
Andy Clark
1966 140/4 Monza Sedan
1966 140/4 Yenko Clone
1966 180/4 Cord 8/10 #60
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Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:00 PM
Subject: <VV> Vair stories and dingleballs


> Hey Paul,
> Dingleballs were little fuzzy cloth balls about the size of a big marble
that were ties to a cloth trim
> strip about 1/2" wide. They were about 1/2" apart or so. Street cruisers
used to attach strips of
> them around the tops of the car's window openings. Old time lowrider fare.
> I never knew what the proper term for them was, but they shore nuff looked
like little cloth dingleballs
> to me!!!
> Bob Johnston
> Frostbite Falls, MN
> CORSA since 72
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:48:58 -0500
> From: Paul Abel <pbob63 at frontiernet.net>
> Subject: <VV> Corvair story
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
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> Bob, great story! Love the floor board story. But, uh.."dingleballs?'
> -Paul-



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