Motoring fashions that have died out

[Richard]

Ford badges in alternative colours. That might have been a local thing.

[Jazoli]

I think you have the windjammer wrong ... shouldn't it be at the back?? everyone I remember was...

 

yes it should be at the back

[Isaac Hunt]

Selmar pendulum car alarms, even more unreliable than the Moss type.

 

Those rear window "flashes" XR2, XR3, GTI and even better, the plastic rear window louvre.

 

Afrermarket glass roofs

 

In-tank Fuel pellets to allegedly convert unleaded to something ok for old school soft valve seats.

 

Sawdust for the rear axle, prob cos there's not nowt wrong with sawdust, but mdf dust just isn't quite as good.

 

Do people still crack an egg into radiators or have header tanks put paid to that

[smellypoo]

I have a memory of every other car having a sticker for Fat Willys Surf Shack... Could have been seeing the same few cars time and again but it could have been 'a thing' like the Fido Dido stuff... This was growing up near Romford so might have been 'becos Essex'

[fordperv]

Ford badges in alternative colours. That might have been a local thing.

Everyone did it, the reason it died out is newer ford badges are an overlay so you can't do it without a replacement colored insert from places like dmb etc like these http://petrolcollective.co.uk/products/custom-ford-gel-domed-badges

 

the old ones were painted from behind so you could decide to sand the colour off and repaint it your desired colour for not alot of pennies

[Junkman]

155SR13
185HR14
 
Not sure whether these ever were a fad in the UK:
 

 

 
Wackeldackel:
 

 
OAP brake lights:
 

 

 
 
Boomerang aerials:
 

 
These:
 

 
 
Souvenir stickers:
 

 

 

 

[New POD]

Is it wrong to like that escort?!

 

Not wrong. No. Looks like a great deal of work went into that. Unfortunately it has a 1.3 OHV and worn out brake pads.

[MarvinsMom]

Courtesy 

Dipsticks

Feu Orange

Drum brakes

Shell galls-litres conversion sticker

Interesting dashboards

 

shell.jpg

 

 

i so, so want - no NEED one of them shell gallons to litres stickers for the metro,

 

can i find one? can i hell...... bugger.

[Pillock]

I had a 76 aerial ball on my G40 on the factory floppy roof aerial

At certain speeds on my test track, you could see the ball in the rear view mirror which was my signal that I was going too fast.

 

I once painted a Ford badge that I found near a dumped car in the woods. I wanted it red, because that was allegedly the colour that Ford Motorsport in Germany painted the badges on cars they'd tuned.

I decided to use primer first to give a better finish.....

[HH-R]

Discarded cassette tapes at the side of the road.

[KruJoe]

^ with all the tape pulled out.

[KruJoe]

Engine size on the bootlid.

[Jim Bell]

Discarded cassette exhausts, mudflaps, tyres, wing mirrors, anti static strips, wheels,  abandoned cars at the side of the road.

 

 

EFA

[Junkman]

Oh, I forgot one.

 

P235/75R15 WSW

 

I dearly miss that one.

[Crusty Sills]

CDs in the window does nothing to laser detectors. 

In fact if you're talking handheld, then the last cop I spoke to said they were trained to point it at a flat, vertical, shiny surface for best results - which is one of the reasons you're not meant to use sticky numberplates on the bonnet any more, a numberplate forms a great laser target

 

So, if you've got CDs on the front of your vehicle, like some truckers I've seen, you are kind of making it easy. Actually you need to coat your car in carbon nanotubes which absorb light.

Use these for an Autoshite version of carbon nanotubes.

 

[MarvinsMom]

Use these for an Autoshite version of carbon nanotubes.

 

Piece-of-burnt-toast-011.jpg

please, PLEASE tell me that this isn't the AS definitive method of cheese on toast making?

[martc]

At certain speeds on my test track, you could see the ball in the rear view mirror which was my signal that I was going too fast.

 

Pretty much totally replaced with new fangled speedometers nowadays.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Sunroofs. All the modern chod I see rarely has them. When they are, they tend to be massive full-length panoramic jobbies.

 

 

It is called a 'Sunshine roof', according to my Jag. Says so on the fuse box cover!

[Austin-Rover]

OAP brake lights:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got a set of these in my Montego!

[smellypoo]

Someone just reminded me about spinning/'spinner' hubcaps. They were beyond crap.

 

Along those lines, apparently you can (or could) get fake 'brake discs' that are supposed to make it look like you don't have drums and covers for your brake calipers to make it look like you have something better than standard.

 

Oh, aftermarket 3 spoke alloys - not the stuff that SAAB did

[KruJoe]

Aye! How shit were they? Made it look like you had no calipers, too!

[phil_lihp]

Stickers in the rear window telling everyone how much your car loved unleaded.

[Cheggers]

I once painted a Ford badge that I found near a dumped car in the woods. I wanted it red, because that was allegedly the colour that Ford Motorsport in Germany painted the badges on cars they'd tuned.

I decided to use primer first to give a better finish.....

Schoolboy error. As you're painting the reverse side, you apply the primer AFTER the top coat

[Timewaster]

IN-GER-LAND George Cross flags.

They tend to appear 3 weeks before an England World Cup footballist game and are all gone by 8am the next morning.

[Pillock]

Technically, high level brake lights didn't die out. They become standard.

 

Meaningful model numbers like a 244GLE, 827Si or a 325i. Apparently you can get a 318i with a 2.0 engine now. The country is fucked.

[eddyramrod]

IN-GER-LAND George Cross flags.

They tend to appear 3 weeks before an England World Cup footballist game and are all gone by 8am the next morning.

And every last one is on a BMW....

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Bull bars.

[scaryoldcortina]

Meaningful model numbers like a 244GLE, 827Si or a 325i. Apparently you can get a 318i with a 2.0 engine now. The country is fucked.

 

My E30 316 was a 1.8.

[stormee]

 
 
Souvenir stickers:
 

 

 

 

 

 

Not to forget really huge Phantasialand and De Efteling stickers, or even STUBAIER GLETSCHERBAHN the size of a Käfer's rear lid.

[PhilA]

Bull bars.

Those are nudge bars, at best.

 

Also, the 244GLE didn't have a 4.4 litre engine so that was not really that meaningful. The Peugeot 406 also, not a 0.6 litre engine.

 

As a child, numbered cars confused me. Names were better, until the names went stupid (i.e. not Fiesta, Escort, Maestro, Sunny etc.)

 

--Phil