Hertz Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Remember these from the 70's and 80's, every shite car seemed to have them. Did they actually do anything or was it just a big con/fad of the time. Has anyone still got one fitted to their motor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross_K Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I remember my cousin's first car being a Mk1 Fester with about half a dozen of those things on the back. Supposed to stop car sickness/radio interference/static buildup, weren't they?You can still get them on the bay:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0253472412 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I saw some in a motorsist shop in BVrid for £1.99 - debated buying one, but in all honesty I dont think they actually do anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 They do bugger all. But i bought one for my mk4 cortina just to add to the retroness. not fitted it yet tho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle silvia Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 We still sell them at halfords!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I can remember tightarse giffers too mean to part with 1/5d, or however little thet were fastening bits of old half-inch chain link to their back bumpers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aled Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 i had some on a corolla in the mid 80s, every time i used to get in the car the car earthed ME and i had one hell of a kick. they did not stay on the car for long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I can remember tightarse giffers too mean to part with 1/5d, or however little thet were fastening bits of old half-inch chain link to their back bumpers.Fire engines have that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Ross Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 That's to prevent static discharge when the pumps and hoses are in use.Same principle as refuelling aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 My Dad got one for his Volvo 340 as we all kept getting buzzed every time we touched the door handle.Bugger all use, but retro indeed! Bonus points for the ones with reflectors built into them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 The shock seems to come from the spark jumping. If you grip the car tightly as you get in or out the discharge still takes place, and you are aware of it, but it doesn't hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcqueenmachine Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 Tony 'Hey, Hey, I love rallying me...' Mason. Was busted by trading standards for selling anti-stic strips which - when analysed were found to have 'no metal content'. His defence 'It's not my fault - the suppliers were Italian'On the plus side he's rumoured to have sold TM Products suppliers of sub-Paddy Hopkirk tat for a million quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Lumiere! Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 These strips were originally developed by General Motors in the early '60s. They were intended not for discharging static and reducing motion sickness, but to enable motorists to manipulate the very fabric of the universe; to bend time and space and allow cars to travel into other, previously undreamt of dimensions.When a Chevrolet Ordinaire, equipped with the first prototype of the strip was hurled into a hole in the space-time continuum which GM had built outside Dire City, Michigan, engineers were dismayed when it was hurled back 20 minutes later. The test driver was alive, but hopelessly addicted to heroin, mobile phones and criminal compensation claims. He had, however, suffered no noticeable signs of motion sickness and the car was bafflingly free of static electricity.The test driver's name? Patrick Halford Hopkirk...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Its Tom Shep isnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Lumiere! Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 What does that mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 My head hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 What does that mean?You sound uncannily like a bloke I know called Tom. He comes out with bizarre ideas like that GM stuff. I mean really - I think he did too much acid back in the 60's and left his mind in a Black Hole somewhwere - talking of which - is anyone concerned by this experiment in France to create mini Black Holes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I was worried, but have had my mind put to rest by this rather catchy rap by the scientists from CERN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatdaft Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 could be raymond boy has joined up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Lumiere! Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 What does that mean?You sound uncannily like a bloke I know called Tom. He comes out with bizarre ideas like that GM stuff. I mean really - I think he did too much acid back in the 60's and left his mind in a Black Hole somewhwere - talking of which - is anyone concerned by this experiment in France to create mini Black Holes?Of course. That bloke you know called Tom had quite slipped my mind there!And fair play to you for working in the phrase "too much acid back in the 60s"! Fab gear. I bet his hair's so long you can't tell if he's a boy or a girl and he listens to that bleedin' jungle music where you can't hear the words and there's never a tune you can dance to...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Lumiere! Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 talking of which - is anyone concerned by this experiment in France to create mini Black Holes?I thought they'd already done that and it ends up in Kent.It'll just end up a total fiasco, like the whole 'Mini Cheddars' thing. Look: Those are NOT Cheddars, of any size. They are pub snacks, like Tescos Cheese Savouries or Victoria Wine's own brand 'Cheese Snips', and they have been fashioned to resemble a very small cheese flavoured snack cracker. It's grotesque.When Dr Alexander Fleming noticed the unsightly mould which had grown on the petrie dish he'd left unwashed overnight, he immediately thought: "This could quite easily be formed into small, bitesize morsels and sold in public houses as Cheese Moments and Scampi Fries". He did not think it could somehow be marketed as some kind of miniaturised version of an already popular savoury snack item. No, he immediately contacted the girl with the bakelite headset at the hospital reception and told her: "Munich, long distance. I must speak urgently with doktor Klaus KitKat Chunky!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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