Timeline for Why do people use "bone" in the phrase "bone stock" to emphasize that a car is unmodified?
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| Nov 21, 2012 at 14:03 | vote | accept | B Seven | ||
| Jan 17, 2012 at 4:48 | comment | added | Gnawme | People vary how puristic they are about what bone stock really means, but there seems to be a surprising amount of consensus about the basic definition. | |
| Jan 17, 2012 at 4:07 | comment | added | B Seven | Wow, thanks for all the great answers. I think this answer is closest to my intuition about the phrase (I have heard and use it). Maybe the idea is that the car is stock all the way down to its bones. That is, the engine, chassis, and suspension are stock. Perhaps back in the day, these components were the first to be modified (unlike today, where the engine and chassis are often last)....? | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 20:32 | history | edited | Gnawme | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2012 at 20:16 | history | edited | Gnawme | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2012 at 18:43 | comment | added | Gnawme | @FrustratedWithFormsDesigner I hear "bone stock" all the time; I don't think I've ever heard or read "bare bones stock" in all my years of reading car magazines. A Google Ngram on the two phrases seems to bear this out. | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 18:19 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | I would think that is might be an abbreviation of "bare-bones stock". | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 18:05 | history | answered | Gnawme | CC BY-SA 3.0 |