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sierraman

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My 528i from the late '90s.Limo tints all round,3-spokes,& lowered springs  :-) .It had a smaller steering wheel & one of those Knight Rider sensors on the dash that made it look like I had an expensive alarm.There were a pair of Cibie Oscars at the front,& an M badge on the boot  :-D

 

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Nice try attempting to distract us with a German repmobile and see if we miss the rather more awesome cat riding a motorbike next to it!

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Stick on bullet holes....neon washer jets....Dtm mirrors....the stick on guy who dropped his trousers and mooned when you squeezed a rubber ball....

Yep,been there,done that....

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Remember the double-wiper blade fad? You could get an adaptor so instead of one measly wiper blade per arm, you could have TWO! For absolutely no advantage whatsoever as far as I could see.

 

My neighbour had this setup. He quickly found that the added resistance of the motor trying to drag 4 blades down a dry screen drew too much current and repeatedly popped the fuse. The obvious solution was a higher rated fuse, which eventually led to the splines stripping on one of the spindles.

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forgot about castle perfomance,used to live near the owner,his wife was well fit,and she had a white sapphire cosworth

Ahh so your a staffs shiter? My nan lived in Chesterton so she was smack bang in between turbosystems and castle performance, so even from around 5 years old the cars caught my eye when I saw them around

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Fat Willys is an actual shop in Newquay. They still sell the stickers.

I have a Fat Willys polo shirt somewhere, it gets used every so often.

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TSW made a lot of absolutely rancid and wheels tbh!

 

I had a set of the very few Inoffensive and half decent ones they made, 17" TSW Pace.

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Does anyone remember those suction cup wavy hands from the 70's?

 

I do; they were called Wonky Wavers!    I think they came with slogans on them, but can't remember if they were to do with football teams, radio stations or seaside resorts.  It'll be one of other of those, I bet.

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Single wiper conversions that parked upright like a touring car

 

There were two approaches to this. A proper conversion which swept the whole screen, and parked in the middle, or the home-brew special - take the driver's wiper off and move the passenger one to the middle...

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Had a 'Eddy the Duck' window stick on.

 

Loved to the 'Pioneer/AIWA/Kenwood' rear window stickers. Used to see the ////AIWA back window flash on quite a lot of Belgian boy-racer cars as well as repositioning the rear number plate to the bottom of the bumper.

 

Pioneer/Kenwood were also found on 90s flight jackets of which I am a proud owner of.

I think my sister had a Garfield on her mark 3 Escort. At the end of the 1990s I had a South Park 'Kenny' on the window of my mark 4 Escort.

 

I also had a 'Pioneer' rear window sticker.

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Seen a lot of cars lately driven by 'yoofs', invariably a 9 year old VAG, with the number plate on the dash in the window. Presumably this is to whip out the way when you are going through a red light.

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Fat Willys is an actual shop in Newquay. They still sell the stickers.

 

The fat Willys sticker is an essential, there is one in my capri

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I think my sister had a Garfield on her mark 3 Escort. At the end of the 1990s I had a South Park 'Kenny' on the window of my mark 4 Escort.

 

I also had a 'Pioneer' rear window sticker.

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