Talking to a friend about some trim for the 57 and he mentions taking off his Dog House. As an old truck driver the doghouse is the enclosure that covers the engine in a cab-over truck. When did the Front Clip become a Dog House? Why didn't someone send me the memo. Maybe I am just to old to keep up.
I'll have to check. I've probably got a couple dogs shacked up in a front clip out back-- And yeah, dog house is the engine cover inside the cab
Yep too damned old to keep up. LOL for some reason a front clip is the front of the frame now and the clip is the dog house. First time I heard it was when a fella was talking about the front sheet metal on a wheel house dodge. We also used to call the dog house the engine cover in a van.
Must be a regional thing. I've heard the term for many years but I come from central Pa where a farmer might take the front sheetmetal and hood off an abandoned vehicle on his farm and set it on the ground to make a shelter for his dogs.
This is what I was thinking. I never heard the term until recently and it was on the internet, not locally.
Its been dog house as long as I remember. I can imagine the regional thing being true though. My brothers in law in so. miss call it a front cap.
Never heard of someone calling the front clip the dog house before around here in WV. We always referred to the engine cover in a van, or cab over truck as the "dog house."
I'm thinking regional or recently adopted internet thing concerning the front clip reference. In MN taking off the doghouse was referring to cabover/van situations to access the engine compartment. Being in the doghouse was referring to on the outs with significant other, typically of the female persuasion. I've done and been both.
I have heard it called a cap and even a wrap around here. I think here in KC you hear a lot of things from all over, people are not as picky about language here as other places I have lived. About the only thing I have ever heard anyone here in the city pitch a bitch about is calling Missouri, Missourah. Funny get out of town about an hour in any direction and it is Missourah. make me think of a deal. last year I was with my sis in Utah, and we were talking in a store and a fella walked up to me and asked if I was from Denver. I said, "No why?" and he said that I talked like people from that part of the country. So I asked my sis and she said that I spoke with a mid western twang unless I was home then I fell right back into the proper way to speak. Has nothing to do with the thread but if I don't mention it I will be fighting it in my head all day.
Ive always called em, and heard em called(the front fenders,hood and grille as a whole) a doghouse. I had never heard a engine cover in a van or a cab over being called a doghouse although I suppose they would both work for a redneck dog Some of the higher classed dogs just use old camper topper shells these days
"Dog House"/"Dog Box"/"engine(motor) cover." The (quickly) REMOVABLE cover INSIDE the passenger carrying compartment of ANY vehicle to gain access to the motor. "Front Clip" The ENTIRE front body panels as a whole, or removed as such from a vehicle. Sometimes, the front bumper is included with the "Clip"
A front clip is the front half of the frame, usually a subframe like from a Camaro. A doghouse is the front fender/grille/radiator shroud/hood assembly from a late model (post '48).
Up here in the PNW the wrecking yard dog(s) lived in them, them being front sheet metal ass'ys . Generally you could tell where to stay away from by water dishes & chain drag trails.
I've never heard that term before except in a cabover truck....we used it a lot with our trucks and referred to the engine compartment, but it always associated to trucking as far as I knew....it was pretty common term back ''before'' cabovers went out of style to more conventional bodies and aerodynamic venues.....interesting!
It's funny. I guess it does depend on where you're from or where the people you hung out with when you were young were from. To me a doghouse was the engine cover for a van or COE but I have also heard it used to describe any enclosure built around an engine, excluding a normal engine compartment, if that makes sense. Now a front clip to me was always the front section of sheet metal (hood, fenders, core support, etc) I was confused as hell the first time I ever heard someone refer to a front sub-frame or frame section with the front suspension, etc. as a "clip." I still can't get used to that but at least I understand it and can figure out what their talking about from the context, most of the time. But some folks think I talk funny. I was doing some voice-over recording for my work a few years ago and my boss at the time (who was from Indiana) started laughing and said "You said that with such a California accent." Shit, I didn't even know I had an accent! What the hell is a California accent anyway? Everyone around here (except me) is from somewhere else. But I digress.
It's like...fer sher...dude. I don't talk like thaaat! It's something else, I think. I don't really know what a California accent is. I think maybe we elongate some of our vowels a little and use hard "R"s. Maybe if I was away from here for an extended period of time I might recognize it better. I dunno. Come to think of it it might be a little like "Valley Girl" speech, except not so exaggerated and without the ridiculous teen slang. I'm getting way off topic here. Back to Dog Houses.
If you called a bone yard and ask for a doghouse for a 74 Ford, Chev, Dodge van you would get an engine cover with cup holders, if you asked for a front clip you would get the fenders, hood, grill and core support. Patrol car /Cruiser. Sub Sandwich /Grinder. Rubber band / Binder. Some folk talk funny, you recken
Like fer sure, hes soooo grody. On a different note, I've heard them called dog houses, but I'm the type a dog house is the cover inside a van.
Regional think I guess. Around here, a dog house is an engine cover inside the van. If I told someone to "pull the dog house" and found that they pulled front clip ( hood fenders core support) off I'd shoot them in the knee cap. The smart ones will say," hey man, that vans fenders are welded on and don't just come off" - at least I hope they would. If I told Someone "pull the front clip off" and they sliced the frame too I'd shoot them in the knee cap too. Now,,, i see that if I moved to a different state,,, I might get my knee caps shot out
Front clip: fenders and hood Doghouse: engine cover in van Pop: any type of soft drink. Breakfast: first meal of the day Lunch:noon meal Supper: evening meal Dinner: fancy word used to describe a evening meal that you went to away from home.You had dinner at a neighbors house or at a restaurant.
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