Does anyone Know why some motors mainly continentals have little chains hanging from there bottom cab step or bumper some are painted red and white ■■
The same reason some trucks have flags in the windscreen, stickers on windows, shiny covers on door handles, fluffy dice, etc ?
Sinple as that.
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Decoration. Tho they original came about as a way of gauging how close to the kerb the bumper is. Seems to be a common eastern European thing I’ve found
Was never about decoration, In the late 70s early 80s, the foreign trucks with these, said that they hooked the mud flaps up on them, so that they wouldn’t rip off going off road or up and down kerbs when delivering to awkward sites.
Sapper
sapper:
Was never about decoration, In the late 70s early 80s, the foreign trucks with these, said that they hooked the mud flaps up on them, so that they wouldn’t rip off going off road or up and down kerbs when delivering to awkward sites.Sapper
The red and white plastic chains hanging off the front step and bumper?
Metal chains to hook up mud flaps are useful off road. But the OP’s description isn’t that, surely?
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I thought it was supposed to be a cheap version of the anti-static straps you see on some cars.
Way way back in the 60s, anti-static suddenly became fashionable.
I reckon some hardware shop ordered the wrong length of bog chain, probably a units mix up.
ie, he wanted a 15 metre roll of bog chain, but got 15 miles instead.
He then had to find a way of shifting 15 miles of bog chain fairly quickly, and had a brain wave.
If I can convince folk that a length of bog chain bolted to their car will stop them getting static shocks, I’ll shift it in no time.
It worked, he did, going by the number of cars that suddenly grew a length of bog chain in the 60s 
Technology has moved on. Anti-static straps are now plastic, so a length or two of plastic chain will do the same job, right?