John F Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 I thought they'd died out by the late 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Saw this a week or so back, look close and you will see kerb feelers eddyramrod and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forddeliveryboy Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Remember when every car seemed to have one of these in the window? By 2030, people will think the tax disc has been re-introduced but starting on the 5th or 6th of the month. Richard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Car coats. For Fiats Sake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 By 2030, people will think the tax disc has been re-introduced but starting on the 5th or 6th of the month. Only if they're a septic or some other numpty that doesn't understand how to put day / month / year in the right order. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Vinyl roofs. Vinyl seats. Knobbly/spiky rubber floor mats. Wing mirrors. Chequered tape. Black tape in an X shape over headlamps. Junkman, Magnificent Rustbucket and hennabm 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr A Lawrence Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Klunk-Kilps!! Missus uses one of these all the time!! Stick on fuel flap covers? Cassette players? Wheel spacers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
face Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Those old after-market graphic equalizers were the tits. IIRC they came with a mind-boggling amount of wires to join / connect up. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forddeliveryboy Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Only if they're a septic or some other numpty that doesn't understand how to put day / month / year in the right order. Quite a few youngbods seem to accept the US way of writing the date as non-numpty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Oi! I have two cars, they both have cassette players.... I have just bought a load of cassettes to play on eBay! myglaren, RayMK, eddyramrod and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 I've just bought some blanks to record. My Stellar's cassette player has never messed up a cassette 'til now. The new Maxell!!! The old cassettes, some of them well over 20 years old, play perfectly (well, they don't tangle). A graphic equaliser is included in the Stellar's unit - still the original. Seat covers have already been mentioned. My Herald used to have brown furry ones. I can remember being proud of the LOOK. I chucked them away after dark when I rediscovered them in the garage the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 Quite a few youngbods seem to accept the US way of writing the date as non-numpty. Yeah... it seems to be a requirement in e.g. some computer systems. It pisses me off intensely though, the septics are the only ones that use such an absurd format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatharris Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Yep - still got my Dad's old one from when he had his Capri, the wiring is horrendous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Yeah... it seems to be a requirement in e.g. some computer systems. It pisses me off intensely though, the septics are the only ones that use such an absurd format. It lends itself well to sortable lists of dates - 20010427 is "less" than 20010516 but "greater" than 20000218, so in a computer filenames are foolproof without needing to make sure copying things around doesn't mess up the file creation date. If you write the dates out in the UK format, it loses all sense because the 18th of any month will always be earlier in the list than the 20th etc.I've been around computers so long, I mustard mitt I just swap between the two formats. Always write in the UK way though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Folks, I think we are getting a little diverted but... year/month/day is the Japanese/Chinese/Korean notation, month/day/year is completely illogical and hence the yank notation and day/month/year is what the rest of us use. So Pillocks examples above are Far Eastern not USA, in fact the yank system is just as hopeless as ours for making numerical lists. Japan/Far East = 2000/02/18 2001/04/27 2001/05/16 typically this is very logical and we all should do it.USA = 02/18/2000 04/27/2001 05/16/2001 which is totally daftEveryone else = 18/02/2000 27/04/2001 16/05 /2001 which at least has the units in order of size Sorry to bang on but I deal with septics on a day-to-day basis and get very annoyed at their dates - although some do accept the ridiculousness of it and replace month numbers with names for "international" correspondence. Anyhow does anybody remember those "soundhog" stickers for Philips cassette tapes which looked like molten jelly with a nose? John F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Zantimisfit, eddyramrod, pompei and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Only if they're a septic or some other numpty that doesn't understand how to put day / month / year in the right order. That poor country has delusions of adequacy. We even lend them our language & they get that wrong too. hennabm, robinmasters, Junkman and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainagain Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Folks, I think we are getting a little diverted but... year/month/day is the Japanese/Chinese/Korean notation, month/day/year is completely illogical and hence the yank notation and day/month/year is what the rest of the us use. So Pillocks examples above are Far Eastern not USA, in fact the yank system is just as hopeless as ours for making numerical lists. Japan/Far East = 2000/02/18 2001/04/27 2001/05/16 typically this is very logical and we all should do it.USA = 02/18/2000 04/27/2001 05/16/2001 which is totally daftEveryone else = 18/02/2000 27/04/2001 16/05 /2001 which at least has the units in order of size Sorry to bang on but I deal with septics on a day-to-day basis and get very annoyed at there dates - although some do accept the ridiculousness of it and replace month numbers with names for "international" correspondence. Anyhow does anybody remember those "soundhog" stickers for Philips cassette tapes which looked like molten jelly with a nose? Me buying booze in the USA using my driver's licence for proof of age, septic: "Sir there is no 24th month". Me trying to buy tickets over the phone in the USA using my Bank of Scotland bank card, septic: "Sorry we don't accept the Discovery card", me: "Sorry? This is an Bank of Scotland debit card". Septic: "no sir, the first four digits of the long card number tell me it's a Discovery card and we don't accept that". This went on for about ten minute until I lost the will to live and transferred the money to another account with a different card number and used that. catsinthewelder, Junkman and Urko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Anyhow does anybody remember those "soundhog" stickers for Philips cassette tapes which looked like molten jelly with a nose?I am sure I remember reading that Murray Walker was responsible for that brand. Of course there's nothing to found on the internet to back this up (although he did have a long career in advertising and branding) so it's probably bollocks. Oh and I do remember having the cassettes and the stickers - I think it was an EMI brand. martc, pompei and warren t claim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Vinyl is making a comeback in some vehicles, they've called it e-leather instead Magnificent Rustbucket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerousdave Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I had a "Headbanging James Hetfield" on the back shelf of my 3i. Worked in the same way as a nodding dog. Wind deflectors, hardly ever see 'em now, even on taxis. where did you get it from need one for mine (big metallica fan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidfowler2000 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 It doesn't seem that long ago that loads of people were driving around with their front fog lights on... now this absurd fashion seems to have dwindled off to just its national practitioners, i.e. the odd confused giffer. It's been decades since I saw a Garfield stuck to a car window, or sticking half-out of a car boot. Ditto those "trapped finger" things. And I certainly can't remember the last time I saw a car with those bizarre earthing straps hanging from the rear valance. What have I missed, and what will be next? I had 3 Garfields and an Odie on my trip to Gothenburg 2 years back... hennabm and John F 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerousdave Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Maybe I should put the WINDSLAMMER at the back of my roof? Surprised nobody* has suggested that yet. I'm going to be honest it may be advisable to remove it as it was designed to be used when towing a caravan so could have an adverse effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I forgot to say I have a bagpuss that sticks to the window to my saph egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 "I shot JR" car stickers were everywhere in the 1980s. I can't even find a good picture of one online now. Magnificent Rustbucket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I forgot to say I have a bagpuss that sticks to the window to my saph DSC_2058.JPG Nice Saph. 2.0 GLSi? I had the hatch in smokestone blue years ago. Damn great car with a 30mm drop to remove it's boating tendancies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I am sure I remember reading that Murray Walker was responsible for that brand. Of course there's nothing to found on the internet to back this up (although he did have a long career in advertising and branding) so it's probably bollocks. Oh and I do remember having the cassettes and the stickers - I think it was an EMI brand. 10540896086_3dd872e615_c.jpg Soundhog!! Not Philips, nor a molten jelly, but I was right about the nose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I'm going to be honest it may be advisable to remove it as it was designed to be used when towing a caravan so could have an adverse effect Like being pulled over every couple of miles by people telling you that you've lost your caravan?Or the sheer downforce applied to the rear of the car, without a caravan present, will explode the tyres? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantingYoof Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Red stripes around the bumper to denote POWAAAR version. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Car coats. Damp hands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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