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Please help a damsel in distress! Definition needed for a translation.
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They might be refering to a rocker cover which is the cover over the valves. Your oil cap will fit onto it.
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Rebecca
Its a cover panel that goes along the door sills of the car, underneath the doors. Bit of body kit really, with apparent appearance & aerodynamic effects.
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John
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Exactly. The drugs were hidden under the rocker panels in the car in the film "French Connection".
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Nicholas
I'd forgotten that. I imagine it's an American term as I learned it from my father who worked at Ford for many years, and called many car items by the American name. hadn't heard the term for years.
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John
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In the film, they were referred to as 'rocker panels' I think
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Darcy
What the Americans call 'rocker panels' we call 'sills' ie they are part of the vehicle structure. Rocker panel mouldings or covers are just that - they cover the rocker panels - as I said usually for cosmetic/ aerodynamic purposes. If you were hiding drugs I'm sure you'd hide them inside the body, not just under some covers!
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John
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Aren't sills the part of the main body of the car to which the rocker panels are screwed? Had to have both side sills replaced on a former car because of corrosion - very expensive.
I think that the English term for rocker panel is 'kickplate': HJ refers to the "stainless steel kickplate image" of Rovers in the breakdown database.
Nick.
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Correct. That's what I put in my original message.
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Thank you for your speedy replies - the job can now proceed!
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John,
I seem to recall that in the book, they hid the drugs in a bit of dead space under the area into which the softtop folded. They hid 100Kg in there without anyone finding it, so it must have been a substantial space, more than in the sills, I'd suspect.
Vin
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I thought rocker panels was what you got on Juke Box Jury!
Showing my age now! Only a little sprog then mind.
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Just how many times have you guys watched the video then???
Next thing is we'll get the definitive answer on drug smuggling from Popeye!
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john
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John Slaughter wrote:
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> Next thing is we'll get the definitive answer on drug
> smuggling from Popeye!
I can feel a letter coming on:
To HJ.
C/O The Daily Telegraph.
Dear HJ,
I have recently bought a 4 litre Mercedes Convertable with a 5 litre sound system.
I intend to use this car for touring with my homeies.
Which cavities can you recomend for concealing illegal narcotics? Would I be better off with powder substances or would resin based drugs be better?
Densil. E5.
I reckon an illegal immigrant question would be good. I reckon HJ would recomend a (non-refrigerated) astra max van. ;-)
Any other suggestions?
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John,
There are some films you can never watch too many times, eg Blues Brothers & the BB 2000 sequel.
However seeing as there was a long sequence in a strip joint in the latter, this thread is now quickly going to degenerate into comments about Vicky Butler H and Charlie Dimmock. makes a change from Citroens though so must not complain.
Regards,
Stuart
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In answer to Dave's question, the best places to hide baggies are down the backs of the rear seats in police Escorts, Astras, etc. At least that's how the guys who prepare the cars at West Oxforshire Motor Auctions can suddently find its Chrismas in July. Plod never seems to think of checking its own motors.
HJ
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What a bunch of anoraks! Try to get out a bit more.
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honest john wrote:
> At least that's how the guys who prepare the
> cars at West Oxforshire Motor Auctions can suddently find its
> Christmas in July. Plod never seems to think of checking its
> own motors.
Incredible! Makes sense though! Where else would the little oiks hide it on the ride to to nick!
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Whatever happened to that bird on Juke Box Jury whose only comment was "Oil give it foive"? And who was she?.
Doesn't your memory go with age!
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It was Janice something or other, I was going to say Long but she is a DJ.
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I bet Rebecca never thought this thread would run away.
Never ceases to amaze me what you can find on the net in a few minutes. Taken from a music website found with Dogpile Search Engine......
"It was 1962, and as a birthday gift I had been given a record token, my first ever. My young aunt was keen for me to get a Cliff Richards single with it, but I had other ideas. There used to be a pop programme on ITV where a panel of 'experts' reviewed newly released singles. The only memorable character was a girl who worked in a Brummy record shop whose phrase for a potential top seller ('Oill give it foive') became the catch phrase of a generation."
So now we know.
David
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