I just had to show this to everyone. It is just so ridiculous to me that I am not even going to explain what it is for a few days. Take a guess and leave your thoughts in the comments.
Update Aug 22, 2011; I guess I should have left this up as the primary post for a few days given the response (1). Anyways this is a home made brake light switch. The driver’s is supposed to leave the hook that I am holding, sitting on the passenger front seat. When approaching a stop, the driver picks up the hook and placed it on the hanger loop mounted below the A/C controls. The sad part of the story is that it had a faulty stoplight switch which is inexpensive and easy to change. Not nearly as difficult as hooking up this contraption.
Yes, it was a hacked up mess. It would have been much easier and cheaper to replace the faulty stoplight switch originally.
I would never have guessed stoplight switch. I’m suprised they went to such effort, and they may have butchered the existing wiring in the process.
My first guess would be it is the radio antenna. But I don’t see a radio. Second guess is a “touch the wires together to switch this on” control for something – HVAC fan, maybe?