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Gehan Gehale <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hearing the word mudflaps makes me think of the chrome pin-up chick
>silhouette that's on the mudflaps of semi trailers across the south.
>That would be loris (sp?) I believe for you UK folks.

Lorries. If they have a fifth wheel, we call them artics - short for 
articulated lorries.

Quite often, we'll call then HGVs - Heavy Goods Vehicles.

I cannot repeat what we call them when they are crawling along in front 
of us on a two-lane road...

>Bumpers are plastic or rubber, Fenders are chrome. Both are on the
>front or rear of a car...

My car puts its roof in the boot... you would say trunk.

>But then again I do recall the panel above a wheel well being called a
>fender too?
>I know I call the chrome things above the tires on my motorcycle fenders...

We call tires tyres. But AFAIK, we do all agree that the round things 
the tyres go on are called 'wheels'.

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