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Do you know what some of these English words mean when refering to cars?!bonnet 2 boot 3 dip switch 4 drop head 5 saloon 6 windscreen 7 gudgeon pin? If so ,what are your answers?
 

Some of these answers are guesses:

Bonnet--hood

Boot--rear trunk

Dip switch--headlight dimmer

drop head--OHV engine

saloon-- sedan, probably 4 dr.

Windscreen--windshield

gudgeon pin--no idea


KEH
 
So, what would some British guy be doing if he was going to "spray the wing"? As General Patton said "Two people devided by a common language".
 
Most gudgeons the pin that goes through them is known as a pintle. A gudgeon is to a pintle as a mortise is to a tenon.

More common usage on this side of the tall water is nautical. On tiller boats, the pintles are the hinge pins that provide the support and pivot points for a rudder. The gudgeons are the fittings on the rudder blade that fit over the pintles, and also slip back off for stowing the tiller and rudder.

For a more trivial reference at least to the gudgeon or, more precisely, the pintle that goes with it, we can go to the old Robert Burns poem, later put to music called, "Nine Inch Will Please A Lady."

Written from a woman's perspective, it allows (translated from Scots to English) as how, "We'll take two thumb-breadths to the nine, and that's a sonsy pintle." Not sure how to translate sonsy, but you get the picture.

Not that's trivia for ya!
 
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