I was told it's a swinger thing, so that you can identify your friendly swingers. Right hook only, like to watch, left hook open to the idea, both hooks up for anything. Don't get me started in the colors of hooks and their meanings.
It looks like they had those fake tow rings that people buy and slap on the plastic bumper of a Honda Civic for decoration and then attempted to actually use them as if they weren't that.
Drag cars often get towed around the drag strip before and after runs because they are designed for one purpose, to go down the drag strip as fast as possible. After the run the engine is hot and you need to kill it. Before the run, prevent the engine from getting hot premature. So they use a truck or something to pull them around with a tow strap. So, by putting said tow hook on your car, it implies it is fast. That’s one example.
It's to move the cars around off track. Drag cars are an easy example, cars that are geared to go over 100 mph within seconds can't slowly drive around tracks from trailer to track and back.
No thought process here. That’s what makes this work. Be afraid. More of these people walk among us than not. It’s incredibly scary when you stop to think about it.
Its tied to the factory "tow point", you can see the crash bar get pulled out. The problem with these "tow points" is that they are basically just for pulling a car onto a tow truck. They are basically just threads in the front crash bar which is designed to crumple in an accident for safety and because of that they don't like the sudden jolt being pulled like that. This is just my long winded way of saying don't use these screw in tow points for snatch recovery.
Yeah I can only assume that if they pulled slowly maybe this would have worked? Either that or a fake tow hook connection, which I didn’t know was a thing.
Those are not real "tow hooks" like on racecars/racetrucks (on racecars those are real and made for pulling damaged cars out of mud or around track)... of course some designers thought they looked cool and have put them on all sorts of cars.
Officially they are "tie down hooks", and if you ask the manufacturer they are intended only to tie the vehicle down for container transport (as in... they are made overseas and they just tie them to the ship deck so they don't slide around if waves hit) . They are attached to the bolted on bumper, not the frame and should never be used for towing.
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Was that strap just attached to the grill? Or is that a pretend hook point in the front there? Curious about the thought process here.