Those 'quote' stickers from the 70's and 80's

[DavidB]

I know these would a little bit out of place on gangster Barry's financed 2016 Audi A3 TFSi (with the blacked out windows and sub woofer exhaust), but whatever happened to these and why isn't at least one person selling exact reproductions of these on ebay to the retro-community?

If this van's rockin', don't bother knockin' ... hilarious 🤪

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/CheapClassicCarsUK/photos/a.102385475164704/218879976848586/

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Greetings card shops like Hallmark used to sell these stickers.

[BL Bloke]

When I had my first car back in 1979, a 1970 Austin 1300, I bought a 'Recycled Ferrari' sticker for the back window.

[Sham]

My Dad had one on his GS.

'Dont touch, I'm not that sort of car'

People seemed to find it hilarious.

 

[St.Jude]

They've evolved in to those white stickers, with quotes from Paul Walker and Colin McRae - which, considering the fact they both ran out of talent, you'd have to wonder why you'd want that on your own vehicle. 

[Alan_Green]

I want a "sorry, not for sale" sticker to display ironically on my chod.

[Timewaster]

The one I never understood as a kid was "Honk if you Funk!" 

Didn't get it then, don't get it now. 

[Wack]

38 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

The one I never understood as a kid was "Honk if you Funk!" 

Didn't get it then, don't get it now. 

replace the n with a c

 

[martc]

3 minutes ago, Wack said:

replace the n with a c

 

'Hock if you Funk'? Sorry, still doesn't make any sense.

[steveo3002]

dad had "designed by computer -built by robot-driven by a moron"

[MrDuke]

1 hour ago, St.Jude said:

They've evolved in to those white stickers, with quotes from Paul Walker and Colin McRae - which, considering the fact they both ran out of talent, you'd have to wonder why you'd want that on your own vehicle. 

Pretty sure McRae ran out of sky, rather than talent?

[Spiny Norman]

The one I transferred across a few cars in my youth was 'It may be old but it's paid for and it's in front of you' .

 

[St.Jude]

Just now, MrDuke said:

Pretty sure McRae ran out of sky, rather than talent?

"If in doubt, flat out" - but he didn't ever say whether that was along the horizontal plane only or vertical as well. 

[eddyramrod]

On my first Lada I had "I wanted a Lamborghini but I couldn't pronounce it!" (1984)

[garbaldy]

2 hours ago, MrDuke said:

Pretty sure McRae ran out of sky, rather than talent?

And I'm pretty sure it was Paul Walkers friend that was driving so wrong again.

[Billy - Medhurst]

[tooSavvy]

Ahhhh....

 

[Inspiral_Mondays]

Mentioned on another thread, a mate of mine had a neighbour who owned a newish 924 back in the 80s. He adorned the back window of his wife‘s decrepit Shove-It with the legend “My other car is a Porsche”. Private Eye used to sell ironically funny* stickers at the time , among them “My other car is also a Porsche” and “My other car sticker is funny.

[Bren]

Those flash thingies that you stuck along the top of the windscreen - the drivers had " Me" and the passenger side " Arrlass".

[Justin Case]

Just now, Bren said:

Those flash thingies that you stuck along the top of the windscreen - the drivers had " Me" and the passenger side " Arrlass".

The best of those was the pairing of "Phil" and "Liz" 

[High Jetter]

17 minutes ago, Bren said:

Those flash thingies that you stuck along the top of the windscreen - the drivers had " Me" and the passenger side " Arrlass".

...were a huge moneyspinner for both the firms that made them and the accessory shops that sold them. Especially with guys who changed their girl regularly, and wanted the correct name each time (not as a memory jog, of course)

[Sham]

I remember a Lenny Henry sketch with the name on the top of the windscreen thing. On one side 'Lenny' and on the other a list of name attached to a bus destination machine thing.

[MiniMort]

11 minutes ago, Sham said:

I remember a Lenny Henry sketch with the name on the top of the windscreen thing. On one side 'Lenny' and on the other a list of name attached to a bus destination machine thing.

I seem to recall a similar sketch on (I think) Not the Nine O'Clock News which had a Mini 1275GT with a blokes name on one side and a whole list of names spanning the width of the windscreen on the other 

[Rod/b]

7 hours ago, Timewaster said:

The one I never understood as a kid was "Honk if you Funk!" 

Didn't get it then, don't get it now. 

It was “Honk if you bonk” round our way.

[warch]

Not car stickers but my kids are currently into the latest rehash of the cartoon Garfield. In a vain attempt to appear relevant I told them about those soft toy Garfields with the suction cups on the feet which everyone used to have in the back window of their car.

[Billy - Medhurst]

31 minutes ago, MiniMort said:

I seem to recall a similar sketch on (I think) Not the Nine O'Clock News which had a Mini 1275GT with a blokes name on one side and a whole list of names spanning the width of the windscreen on the other 

 

[MiniMort]

48 minutes ago, Billy - Medhurst said:

 

OK its a Clubman, not a 1275GT, and it's the girl driving but it still counts

[sheffcortinacentre]

In the 80's my mk3 had 

The yanks have ragen, Jonny cash,Bob hope & Stevie wonder!

We have Thatcher no cash no hope & no bloody wonder!

These days two of my mk3's have 

I'd rather push a ford than drive a vauxhall.

The other has 

This is ford country on a quiet night you can here a vauxhall rust.

The falcon Ute has  one of those race track outlines of mount panarama Bathurst confuses the chavs no end.

 

 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Sham said:

I remember a Lenny Henry sketch with the name on the top of the windscreen thing. On one side 'Lenny' and on the other a list of name attached to a bus destination machine thing.

Yes, like the bus destination indicator. Much faster tho.

[DSdriver]

My son had "I brake for cake" on one of his cars which I found amusing and quite likely.