What is This?, Testing the collective wisdom... Options

[Eric_Shea]

I found this in my center tunnel a while back.

I could be wrong but, there's a couple of things that make me think this could be a factory "tool" (for lack of better word). It has multiple layers of Saturn/Chrome Yellow paint on it. Seems like it might have been used for pulling the tub from one area of the shop to another on a dolly. I can't find any body mounts that would line up though... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Has anyone ever seen one of these?

[PlaysWithCars]

Yeah, but why go to all of the trouble to bolt it to the door, later unbolt it, and recycle it to the start of the paint line again when there are already so many convenient hand holds in the inner door structure? Not very efficient from a manufacturing operations perspective.

Where ever it was used is going to have to be pretty unique: Clearly there must be access to the fasteners from the backside to install and remove this thing, but they would have to be in spot that didn't get any paint. Painting over threads would have made it tough to remove.

My money says this wasn't used on the cars at all, but was part of the equipment used for assembly or transport. If used on the cars I would expect to see more color variations in the layers of paint. Only one color says it was on a piece of equipment that got repainted the same color over and over to tidy up just before any senior level executive came to visit the plant.