Your #coolstorybro for the day: So I have #aloharacks on the Celica, partially because every great while I actually have been known to throw a board on it, and to haul stuff, like GMC truck bumpers. Back in the nineties I remember this car having racks on it, and in the early 2000s, those racks migrated to my '58 Dodge. One night in 2003-4, I had the rear rack fly off on the 110 freeway! I pulled the car over, and recovered the mangled rack, and the pair soon got tossed in the crawlspace under the Doke. Fast forward to 2011, I found a TE51 with a set in the pick your part. As a nod to the Celica's past, and practicality, they went on. So a long winded tale about a strip of rubber? One of the racks had a torn bungee. Luckily, the mangled pair had good rubber on it. This, is the only old torn bungee. What am I geeking out on? Can you see the three embossed and numbered discs? If you have ever played with any plastic pieces on any car (seventies Mopars were notorious for these), they have these things. Commonly referred to as Sundial date stampings, they have a two year date with twelve bilaterally-split concentric sections, usually those 24 blocks have a dot: they signify a half month. While it might not tell the exact date the rubber was made, it signifies the date the mold was made, and successive retoolings, in this case 1965, 1966, or likely, the last date, 1967. #oldschoolusdmhunter, #bestdamn20rra43celicaintown #celica, #aloharack, #3210netplace
