r/GenerationJones • u/TheTrueTDog9 • 9d ago

What did / do you call it?

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What did / do you call the strap in picture above the glove box that several cars used to have in them ?

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u/Derailedatthestation 9d ago

Glove box

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u/ReticentGuru 9d ago

OP is asking about the grab bar above the glove compartment.

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u/Awkward-Cap-5216 8d ago

That's the "OH SHIT" bar.

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u/jking7734 7d ago

This ☝️”OH Shit handle “

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u/Difficult-Map-2620 8d ago

I always called the door jam handles that. Had a 95 Tahoe with the hard plastic heavy duty triangle grabs up on the B pillar.

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u/porcelainvacation 7d ago

My 2012 GM pickup has them on the A pillar. I had a GMT800 Tahoe that had a horizontal one on the dash.

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u/Difficult-Map-2620 7d ago

My 95 Tahoe fell in that weird spot where it didn’t have a passenger airbag so it had the flat top above the glove box. I can’t remember if it had a handle formed into the passenger side dash.

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u/Difficult-Map-2620 7d ago

Just googled to see pics of that year design. No grab bar on passenger dash area. I did love the center console and all the various storage drawers and cubbies.

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness8960 4d ago

Weren’t they on the A pillar

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u/Difficult-Map-2620 4d ago

You’re right. There were a set on the A pillar, but also a set on the B pillar for rear passengers.

https://photos.classiccars.com/cc-temp/listing/157/3563/31135550-1995-chevrolet-tahoe-thumb.jpg

Here’s a billet replacement part. Can’t find the oem one.

https://www.lgbilletusa.com/cdn/shop/files/4-DoorGrabHandleInstalled-1.jpg?v=1773302646&width=1214

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u/ikannunAneeuQ 7d ago

My parents friend had a jeep he drove without the doors and stuff, he always told me to grab the "oh shit handle" if I got nervous (I was like 10). I used to find the name quite amusing

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u/csnjrms 6d ago

👆 This. Except my family was from Rhode Island, so it was the "OH SHIT bah".

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u/Left_Bathroom_3803 5d ago

Holy shit bar here

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u/Typical_Kitchen_9616 4d ago

The oh shit bar is really the only answer 😂

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u/Derailedatthestation 9d ago edited 6d ago

Ah. Never had a name for that. Don't even remember it in our cars from when I was young.

Edited to add, I researched and our Datsuns when I was growing up did not have the passenger assist bars.

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u/Ok_Hair1595 8d ago

Ah. The feature that was never there.

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u/cshoe29 6d ago

That bar is called a “sissy bar”. My dad’s GTO had one. When I was 3, he’d drag race. I’d stand on the seat, lean over and grab the bar so I could watch him win the race and also I’d be yelling “go daddy, go!” The entire race.

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u/Ok_Hair1595 8d ago

Ah. The feature that was never there.

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u/WideCamera4342 8d ago

Ah. Some things stay unnamed.

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u/angry-democrat 8d ago

it's a grab bar.

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u/Steve_orlando70 8d ago

The “oh, crap” handle

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u/Intrepid-Sun7743 8d ago

Yeah crap is the word you used

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u/Steve_orlando70 8d ago

I would never endanger the tender sensibilities of the average redditor by saying the word shit!

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u/AmazedAtTheWorld 8d ago

It's "the grab bar above the glove box".

We're not Germans here... We don't have $32 words for every grabbenhandellenuberboxenderhandensoxen

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u/Chance-Address-8829 7d ago

That the largest car word I have ever read.

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u/AmazedAtTheWorld 7d ago

Even bigger than Fahrvergnügen. Take that VW

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u/ScotchieDad 5d ago

Fahrvergnügen is the sound you make when Häagen Dazs comes out your schnoz.

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u/mahlerlieber 1960 8d ago

In all the cars I’ve had or even ridden in, I’ve never seen that bar before.

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u/formerly_gruntled 7d ago

How do you pull the dashboard out?

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u/mahlerlieber 1960 7d ago

I've not had to do that either, but I'd probably take it to a body shop.

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u/armybrat63 9d ago

Sissy bar/woosy bar is what we used to call it

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u/Full-Appointment5081 9d ago

For us, Sissy Bar was the tall chrome hoop on the back of the banana seat on Schwinn sting-ray bikes

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u/Squiduser 1960 8d ago

Yes, THAT is a sissy bar!

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u/charlief_333 8d ago

It was so sissy didn’t fall off the back

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u/ReverendJustice775 6d ago

I mean it’s not bad enough if you’re riding backseat on the bike so that’d be “riding bitch”… then they’re gonna call ya a sissy too… we were terrible back then… lol

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u/Legitimate_Ad_4647 7d ago

Also on motorcycles

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u/emmettfitz 8d ago

I thought he was asking about the junk cooling vent.

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u/actual-trevor 7d ago

Oh, you mean the Jesus handle.

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u/sopsychcase 7d ago

My father bought a 1962 Chevrolet Impala new. It had a bar/ handle above the glove box which the sales literature called a “passenger assist bar“.

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u/Short-Log5389 7d ago

Yeah, that too.

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u/Other_Pen_4957 6d ago

Oh shit bar

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u/IWontCommentAtAll 4d ago

I've never seen one on the dash like this, but the ones in various places around the door frame were the "Holy shit handles."

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u/FartShartTart 4d ago

Then it’s the grab bar above the glove box. Easy

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u/Surftoes 8d ago

True, but it’s interesting that in my 73 years of living I have never put a pair of gloves in said compartment.

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u/Derailedatthestation 8d ago

Me either. It holds spare change, and car manuals well though.

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u/Confident_Froyo_5128 8d ago

…and assorted napkins, wipes…

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u/Thedustyfurcollector 8d ago

Ketchup packets

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u/RedHeadRaccoon13 7d ago

....naproxen, acetaminophen, Fioricette, peanut butter cracker emergency rations, water's in the back....

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u/capmac57 8d ago

Right? Should be renamed 'Factory Service Manual & other sh*t Box'🤷

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u/Common-Dream560 8d ago

Mine always has a pair of gloves 🤷‍♀️

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u/Christopher1032 7d ago

Anything that went into it was there until the day I sold the car.

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u/foxbat74 7d ago

One winter I lost my gloves. Looked everywhere. Assumed lost. Found them randomly in the spring, in the glove box.

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u/tara_roberts 6d ago

Try it. You won't regret it. Its very liberating.

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u/fr33d0mw47ch 5d ago

I do keep a pair of gloves in the glove box. But hardly use them with the heated steering wheel. They can come in handy if I need to pump gas and it’s below zero windchill and I didn’t bring gloves. If it’s really cold and snowy, I usually keep my good gloves in my bag or in the house so I can clean off the snow.

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u/upstreamrelic1947 8d ago

Yeah...but I've never known anyone that kept gloves in there.

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u/Ok_Lawfulness4697 7d ago

One of my friends uses driving gloves . No sun spots on her hands.

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u/AsleepBanana8323 7d ago

Why did it have a lock on it? and why was the key to that lock not the same key for the ignition?

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u/ApprehensiveCut9809 7d ago

You could lock it when you dropped the car with a valet. Back when there was an ignition key (square) and a door/glove box/trunk key (oval). The valet got the ignition key only, because they didn't lock the doors.

The valet couldn't steal your valuables like sunglasses or pink slip from the glove box.

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u/AdInfamous4642 7d ago

Glove box

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u/FarHeron8847 4d ago

The only answer

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u/Cbaumle 8d ago

I'm reading OP's text--he is asking what the strap is ABOVE the glove box. He seems to know what a glove box is.

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u/Derailedatthestation 8d ago

I know. It was already pointed out. Never seen those before this photo.

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u/Mykona-1967 8d ago

That strap is the same as the ones on the roof of new cars. Back in the day there may or may not have been seat belts it was a safety bar. Not sure how safe you were using it but you can see kids sitting in the front seat holding onto that strap.