WHAT COLOR SHOULD MY TOW TABS BE?

[Plowman]

Taken about 1971 and shows some Home-made tabs. Those tabs were very simplistic compared to the NMW Nova tabs.





This one just for fun since it was from the same day and Nova's rock!



I called the phone number on a set of NOS NMW tow tabs I had several years back and spoke to the guy who was said he was the owner of NMW, but sold the building. We spoke about the old tooling and parts. He said he had it in storage in the building, hadn't sold a tow tab in 20 years and when he had a chance to sell the building, he got rid of everything. He called some guys he knew to clear the building out. He thought everything went into a dumpster they brought there. If a bunch were sold to some guys who sold them on ebay, he wasn't part of that sale.

We also talked about color and is it was year specific, and he said color was what they had on hand.

Me and my friends used tow tabs, hubs and bars back then. I don't know anyone who didn't paint them flat black before they installed them. We also didn't always want it to be too obvious that our cars spent time at the track when there was some illegal, night street $racing$

[JoeG]

Wow......had to read this twice.......Thought it said What color should my toe nails be..........Hey if it gets you better reaction times at the lights ..Go for it..! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif[/img]

[brent396]

[quote=Plowman]Taken about 1971 and shows some Home-made tabs. Those tabs were very simplistic compared to the NMW Nova tabs.



Pic of that 68 mite have been a L79 looks like 327 on the fender cool pic

[PxTx]

So your tow tabs were yellow on day 1 and black on day 2. What color is your car?

Thanks to the fellow who read this thread and sent this my way. Lakewood tow tabs, bars, etc.

[BJCHEV396]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pxtx</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So your tow tabs were yellow on day 1 and black on day 2. What color is your car? It's a 1970 L78.Astro blue with a black vinyl roof.

Thanks to the fellow who read this thread and sent this my way. Lakewood tow tabs, bars, etc.

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[BJCHEV396]

Anyone know the ''correct''color code yellow?

[Salvatore]

In a rattle car I found a spray paint called NOW made by Sherwin Williams. (#21206 Sunshine Yellow) I have done several sets of vintage Lakewood traction bars this color and its the closes I found with much scrutiny. True Value Hardware Stores. Have fun!

[Plowman]

Thank you Sam,I will have fun.

[wheelhop]

Don't know if I'm chiming in too late or &quot;too little&quot; but I've got a set of nos NMW Ladder Bars and they were red-oxide primer.

[PxTx]

Pics for reference and to compare color?