What's the scuttle?

[John S Farrington]

Some Jaguar literature also refers to the scuttle as the under dash board upholstry pieces that keep you from seeing the guts of the instrumentation etc,. It could contain heater and AC vent passages also depending on the model.

 

[Dave Russell]

So the scuttlebutt must be the rear part of the scuttle?
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[John S Farrington]

Do you people from Idaho also work a lot of cross word puzzles?

 

[JamesWilson]

I think what you're refering to is the "Furflex".

If you can't find what you need in the US, have you considered importing it? One company I know of here with a web site is John Skinner. I've had a quick look and they supply a furflex trim kit (though they don't specify what all that includes) in a variety of colors it seems. There may be other companies as well. It might be worth a look for you....

 

[Exotexs]

yes, Furflex it is! thank you JW. I'll give that company a try. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/iagree.gif

 

[vette]

I'ee, Now there ya go matey. A vent in the panel below the windshield in the US is called the Cowl vent. Therefore the panel and bulkhead supporting the windshield is the cowl or cowling. But without looking up any research on this i believe a scuttle is also a bordering perimeter or structure which gives a finished edge to the gunwales of a boat. As is also a cowling. such as the due cowl phaetons of yesteryear duesey and such. A cowl and a scuttle, one and the same. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif

 

[Keoke]

A cowl and a scuttle one and the same: Provided it ain't on an Aeroplane!---Keoke /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[BlueRidge1]

Why do park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?
If folks live in one big building why do they call it an apartment???? Better question why don't any of the high priced parts I purchase for our Healey come close to fitting??? Bob

 

[Exotexs]

here's the definitive, case closed, definition and history of the word Scuttle:

SCUTTLE, a term formerly applied to a broad flat dish or platter; it represents the 0ld English "scutel", later cognate with the German "scussel", a dish, derived from the Latin "scutella", a square tray, diminutive of "scutra", a platter, probably allied to the Greek "scutum", a large oblong shield, as distinguished from the "clypeus", a small round shield. The name survives in the coal-scuttle, styled purdonium in English auctioneers catalogues, which now assumes various forms. Scuttle in this sense must be distinguished from the word meaning small openings in the deck or side of a ship, either forming a hatchway or cut through the covering of the hatchway; from which to scuttle a ship means to cut a hole in the bottom so that she sinks. The word is an adaptation of 0ld Spanish "escotilla", also used as a diminutive of "escote", a sloping cut in a garment of clothing about the neck. The Spanish word is cognate with foss, lap, bosom, properly the flap or projecting edge of a garment about the neck, 0ld English sceat, whence sheet. The colloquial scuttle, in the sense of hurrying away, is another form of scuddle, frequentative of scud, to run, which, like its variant scoot, is another form of shoot.

...the Spanish used the word "escotilla" referring to the decoy ventilation openings on the sides of decoyed Spanish ships, which were used to fire cannonballs to unsuspecting French ships when they got too close to the Spanish Armada and the Spanish decoy ship was sent to "greet" them with fireworks emanating from their innocent-looking "escotillas". At the time when the English Queen marries the Spanish King, (or was it an English King marrying a Spanish princess? or both?), the word 'escotilla" becomes "scuttle" in the English language, after the English learn the decoy trick, centuries later the British Automotive Industry starts to apply it to cars, and here we are 50 years later trying to decide what it means. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif

 

[tonyh]

it could come from the days of steam driven cars when the coal was put into the boiler to keep the fire going as the opening for the boiler was underneath the windscreen (just a thought)

 

[DrEntropy]

In the interest of scuttlin' this thread s'more: The "excluders" may also be had from MacGregor in Canadia... and he's got "BristleFlex" as well.

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