1965 Jack Retainer Spring Hook/Handle

[Clark K.]

Re: 1965 Jack Retainer Spring Hook/Handle

My car is a mid June build 65 and it had double hook, that was called wrong at a chapter meet, so I changed it to a single. Then that was called wrong at a Regional, so I put the double back, then checked with MM, who said what I wrote above. At this point I have both in the jack well, and that way I have all bases covered.....

I can understand Don's practice, out of frustration, for having both style hooks in the storage compartment during Flight judging. But, it is not correct. No new car, after dealer prep, had both style handles present. There should be one or the other, only. A judge should deduct for having both at the same time since it is NTF/NTP. (joke)

Don sounds like he is as consciencious as I am. He is trying to get it right. His solution is what any smart member would do faced with the same dilemma.

It sure sounds like I will have the same problem at future NCRS meets, one interior judge wants to see a single hook and another wants to see a double hook. At the 2012 San Diego National was the first time an interior judge had told me about and deducted for the wrong jack spring handle. At not one of the car's previous five Flight-judgings since 1989 was this pointed out.

My car is a mid-Feb.'65 build, three months after the AIM change. This is exactly what drives some people to the edge of madness with NCRS. It should be clear in the JG which it should be. That way, there would not be such judge opinion discrepancies from meet to meet.

I understand where NCRS gets the thought that it was late '65 models that MIGHT have the later (single) hook handle. It comes from studying original cars. I understand that the AIM handle change was what is called a factory "running change" that took months, perhaps, to exhaust the supply of the old (double-hook) spring handles. What probably happened is when that factory bin was almost empty, someone dumped a box of the new items on top of the old ones. So, cars got a mixture for a while until finally ALL the old hooks were used up. They had no idea that fifty years later, someone would be so worked up over that process.
-Clark

[Doug L.]

Re: 1965 Jack Retainer Spring Hook/Handle

I have a question. I too bought a repro hold-down spring from LIC. The single hook end is approximately 1/2 of a complete circle. I can catch it on the clip that is riveted to the floor but just barely. My guess is that the first time I hit a bump in the road the hook will slide off the clip. Did the factory hold-down springs have the same shape/ length / bend on their hook. What did / do people do to keep the hook from sliding off? Put more bend in it?
Doug