MMMmmmm, leather hood straps...

"Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'" (otto-the-croatian) 09/10/2018 at 08:29 • Filed to: not even kidding

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...on my Twingo. Y/N?

I can’t find pics of new cars with them on tho . I’ll mock something up later tonight.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 08:44

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Hmmm I was team no until the second picture. On a twingo it may work

random001 > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 08:49

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100% yes to this question all the time.

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > random001 09/10/2018 at 08:52

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TBH I just wanted to hear this to know I’m not crazy.

bhtooefr > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 08:53

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I think it’d work on a Renault 4, but not a Twingo.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:04

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DO IT!

:)

random001 > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:05

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Oh, you are, but it’s in the best possible way.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:08

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That’s definitely unique! I think that would work!

boredalways > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:10

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Sure, why not!

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:12

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Due to modern design, I’d use nylon straps, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable.

shop-teacher > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:19

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I vote yes.  It sounds so stupid, but it’s a Twingo.  I think a Twingo can pull this off.

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > bhtooefr 09/10/2018 at 09:27

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Maybe a rubber one, like you can find on a cheap wrist watch? That would make it fit with the rest of the plastic materials...
Or do you think it’s just conceptually unnecessary, therefore it won’t work?

Nom De Plume > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:29

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No, pretentious and at best two steps away from any other non-functional catalog accessory people stick to their vehicle.

If your Twingo was a 400K example the requisite parts had fallen off of through long use. Sure,t art the leggy little bitch up, but out of necessity .  Unfortunately you fall on the complete opposite side of this use case

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 09/10/2018 at 09:30

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I just hope I can pull it off somehow without punching through the metal. But then again if it’s just a stick-on it feels like cheating. Maybe if I use a high-quality glue of some sort? So it’s at least kind-of reversible.

bhtooefr > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:38

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I think it’d come off as an anachronism, really - leather straps were the lightweight hood securing mechanism from before hood pins, and the Twingo is solidly from the era of hood pins.

Milky > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:41

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Not sure they work on newer cars.

bob and john > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 09:44

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solid no. makes you look like a try hard

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 10:07

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Yes...but only if they are studded.

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > Milky 09/10/2018 at 10:24

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I have to admit I kinda dig it.

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > bhtooefr 09/10/2018 at 10:29

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I get your drift. I’ll think about it, but that’s kinda too far towards a tuner route for the car. I have a more steampunk-oriented vision. But not full on fake gauges and pipes, a lot more subdu ed kinda thing.

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > bob and john 09/10/2018 at 10:31

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But I AM trying hard. It’s already a silly car in stock form, and it’s entirely likely that I’ll be the last owner so I’m thinking I should just do whatever seems fun.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 10:58

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Yeah, a strong glue should be good. Sticking in with double sided tape would be cheating indeed lol

Die-Trying > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 11:42

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if you are going to go the try hard route, you have to OVER do it......

find some old weight lifting belts, the ones with the real wide ends on them, and use two, one on each side.....

that way “they” know that you are serious about keeping what is under the hood, from prying its way out from under there.......

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > Die-Trying 09/10/2018 at 12:20

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Wait... is that what that belt is for lol?

JKJK, I like the idea of it being oversized. I’ll play with that in Photoshop when I find the time.

bhtooefr > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 09/10/2018 at 12:35

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Basically where I’m going is, leather straps were the 1960s and earlier tuner method, hood pins were the 1970s and later, and 1960s tuner doesn’t feel like it’d work right on a Twingo (too new). (1990s tuner is definitely not the way I’d want to go either, mind you.)

Although now thinking about the rubber strap idea, now I'm wondering about an alternate history of *ALL* of the typical 1950s-1960s tuner stuff updated for the 1990s and how it'd come off...