Fender well pulley

[X66]

Has anybody ever seen this before?  I have a pulley attached to my LH fender well. Any ideas what it was used for? Of course I know the factory didn’t put it there I am just curious if anyone has seen pulleys in an engine bay before.

[X66]

Let me try the pic again

[X66]

The other pic

[169INDY]

Cable Hood release? Maybe
Strange, Driver side.

[X66]

When I bought my 69 the pulley was not attached to it. It has the factory hood latch. Interesting thought though.

[X66]

I bought my Camaro in 1987 so the pulley has been there since some time before that.

[Kelley W King]

Maybe some body work in the past. Like pulling fenders together to line up? Body guy forgot to remove it? Using a pulley would let you get the come along out of the way perhaps.

[X66]

You’re probably right I hadn’t thought about body work. I have found evidence of damage.

[ZLP955]

The angle doesn’t look right, but I wonder if it was originally for an in-dash hood release pull cable? I had something similar on an old Holden ute to stop anyone being able to pop the hood from the factory release catch. After all this time, we’re only speculating though.....

[Leon in Mn.]

I can't really tell by the pics exactly where it is but is it possible someone hooked up a 'wolf whistle" back in the day and needed a cable to get the pull cable angle lined up for the right angle?  They were popular for a while.

[X66]

Never heard of a wolf whistle what is that?

[Leon in Mn.]

A wolf whistle is (sort of) shaped like a horn, which is sometimes mounted either on a fender or the engine somewhere and has a hose or piping going to the intake manifold, working on manifold vacuum.  A cable is attached to it and when the engine is running, or especially during deceleration when vacuum is highest,  the cable is pulled and the whistle emits a loud whistle.  You can vary this by the way you pull on the cable inside the car.  Kind of a "cat call" when going down the street when girls were present.......Look it up on YouTube.  I think they're  on there somewhere....  I put one on my 69 C10 truck.  It gets the attention!  The old vintage chrome ones are in demand these days. 

[z28z11]

A wolf whistle is (sort of) shaped like a horn, which is sometimes mounted either on a fender or the engine somewhere and has a hose or piping going to the intake manifold, working on manifold vacuum.  A cable is attached to it and when the engine is running, or especially during deceleration when vacuum is highest,  the cable is pulled and the whistle emits a loud whistle.  You can vary this by the way you pull on the cable inside the car.  Kind of a "cat call" when going down the street when girls were present.......Look it up on YouTube.  I think they're  on there somewhere....  I put one on my 69 C10 truck.  It gets the attention!  The old vintage chrome ones are in demand these days. 

Used to appear in J.C. Whitney's catalog, and the advertising pages in a lot of car mags in the day. Along with whiz-bangs that attached to a convenient spark plug - remember those ? Likely get you arrested nowadays -

Regards,
Steve

[Leon in Mn.]

They are a lot of fun!

[X66]

Wow interesting I’ll have to look it up thanks.