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Weasel Diesel · 04-11-2012, 12:21 PM

Front clip is an old school bodyshop phrase. If a front end was SO damaged it needed to be replaced, then you go to the boneyard and "Clip" off a front end so you could use the parts off it,..hence Front clip. Doghouse, as far as I ever knew was the inside engine cover in a van.

04-11-2012, 12:21 PM	#21
Weasel Diesel Registered User Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Chesterfield, Va. Posts: 339	Re: What Do You Guys Think? Front clip is an old school bodyshop phrase. If a front end was SO damaged it needed to be replaced, then you go to the boneyard and "Clip" off a front end so you could use the parts off it,..hence Front clip. Doghouse, as far as I ever knew was the inside engine cover in a van.