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

[motorpunk]

On 04/09/2021 at 08:35, Sham said:

Seen one this morning which I found amusing. For some reason.

'No Jaffa Cakes left in vehicle overnight'

I’ve seen that one in Emsworth. I don’t get it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, motorpunk said:

I’ve seen that one in Emsworth. I don’t get it.

A better version is:

"No tools left in this van overnight, not even the driver."

[Conan]

On 11/8/2021 at 2:34 AM, DavidB said:

When I was in Thailand, this was a popular sticker.

I kept asking 'why does everyone have stickers of that fellow from the Bee Gees'. This is Al Pacino from Serpico, who fought police corruption, there's a bit of police corruption over there.

Also this one, not sure what it means, but I bought a few:

Also this one, which was just as popular!

https://www.gregtodiffer.com/meanwhile-in-bangkok-weird-vehicle-stickers/

 

 

I was going to explain a few of these but workload has made me forgotten to, sorry.

 

Serpico was a popular movie back in the day and yes it resonates pretty well during the tumultuous 70's, although these day I doubt most who have them on would know what it's from or who he is anyway.

 

The second sticker is usually found on emergency vehicle. Our healthcare system is unique in that a lot of ambulances operating on the road attending to accidents and other emergency are not the usual employed workers you'd expect but a group volunteers usually runs by charity organisation. This means there's very little typical regulation in place and the vehicle they use are provided by the volunteered drivers themselves and not fleet run by hospital or whatever.  This means a lot of driver will modify their emergency vehicle to make it more personalised. This is where the sticker originated. Of course we have typical ambulances too, but those are rarer and respond only to medical emergency, heart attack and such. Not accidents.

 

The woman removing panties? Not a clue.

[500tops]

Holy thread resurrection!

Whilst rummaging for something unrelated I unearthed these hilarious* stickers. All new and unused! 

[bunglebus]

Blast from the past they are - only seen a couple of them before too. How much do you reckon the Jim'll Fix it one would go for on ebay? 

[Noel Tidybeard]

the spaceship does wear an Arfur Daley Motors dealer sticker like this at the top of rear screen!😁

[Missy Charm]

I once saw a car with a sun-strip labelled 'me', on the driver's side and 'me bitch' on the passenger's.  Unfortunately, on the occasion I was present, 'me bitch' was the ten year old boy sitting in the passenger seat.  People don't think these things through.  

[AnnoyingPentium]

6 minutes ago, Missy Charm said:

I once saw a car with a sun-strip labelled 'me', on the driver's side and 'me bitch' on the passenger's.  Unfortunately, on the occasion I was present, 'me bitch' was the ten year old boy sitting in the passenger seat.  People don't think these things through.  

The Del and Heather stickers from the van in OFAH spring to mind.

[richardmorris]

I have a few 2cv ones:

this may be a 2cv but it’s in front of you

my other car is also a 2cv

2cvers do it bouncily

Non turbo

no wine or baguettes kept in the vehicle overnight

 

and four spring duck technique

[Missy Charm]

Oh and another one: a woman driving a clapped out Audi with an 'I love my Audi' sticker on it.  She somehow had the appearance of someone who really did love her Audi because she had no other joys in life.  I felt quite sorry for her.  

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

no wine or baguettes kept in the vehicle overnight

I like this.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

1 hour ago, 500tops said:

TODAY they are servicing MY Fessasi!

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

TODAY they are servicing MY Fessasi!

He was obviously worried about it so much his hands were shaking.

[Patent]

Saw a TR7 at BP with this inspired sticker. 

 

[High Jetter]

They could sell well on here!

[62 Austin]

Some I've seen in the States --

I Work For A Jewish Carpenter

The Pieces Falling From This Car Are Of the Finest British Manufacture

Where The Hell Is Chitna?

Hell Ain't Half Full - Go Ahead and Pass

If We Split Alaska In Two - Texas Would Be the 3rd Biggest State

 

[ProgRocker]

In the mid 1990s as a new driver I procured one of those yellow diamond signs on a suction cup. It had a diagram of the front of an angular looking car and the caption:

"Don't f**k up

BACK UP!" 

It did the trick as I got tailgate less in my '79 Mini. 

I also remember buying a Kenny from South Park in 1998, a bit like the Garfields from a few years earlier. 

[Carl1981]

Father in law has a good one on his S111.

”support your local bartender…

helping ugly people get laid”

he’s had the car 17 years, sticker was already on it and already a sticker with some vintage when he got it!

[garbaldy]

On 9/4/2021 at 8:23 AM, Agila said:

Here you go saddo 😀

 

Oops forgot to say Thank you 😉

[SteersWithThrottle]

On 11/8/2021 at 10:37 AM, Tadhg Tiogar said:

A better version is:

"No tools left in this van overnight, not even the driver."

There's also "No tools left in this van - except the apprentice"

[Fumbler]

5 minutes ago, SteersWithThrottle said:

There's also "No tools left in this van - except the apprentice"

I've seen those ones before. Always gets a laugh.

[SteersWithThrottle]

I believe some pastry company started the "No pies left in this van" one

[Missy Charm]

4 hours ago, SteersWithThrottle said:

There's also "No tools left in this van - except the apprentice"

Once seen in Chelmsford: 'nothing of any value left in this vehicle'.  Fairly ordinary, but said vehicle was a private ambulance!

[Rod/b]

On 2/11/2022 at 2:34 AM, High Jetter said:

They could sell well on here!

Maybe if someone cut out all the superfluous words. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

17 hours ago, garbaldy said:

Oops forgot to say Thank you 😉

I could do with one of those!

I have this pair at present...

[SteersWithThrottle]

12 hours ago, Missy Charm said:

Once seen in Chelmsford: 'nothing of any value left in this vehicle'.  Fairly ordinary, but said vehicle was a private ambulance!

Presumably they got fed up of smack-heads breaking in to it looking for drugs, or things to sell to buy drugs. The ones you see that are soberly liveried and sans light bars are usually used for ferrying bodies between the morgue and the funeral home etc...

[FakeConcern]

31 minutes ago, Rod/b said:

Maybe if someone cut out all the superfluous words. 

[warch]

Neither 70s or 80s but I was most amused to know that car stickers were doing the rounds back when Adolf Hitler was still a painter and decorator. Reproduced from the Halfords Big Book of Shit 1930.

[skoda_fan]

I bought a wodge of stickers pronouncing "My other car's a Skoda". This was meant to be ironically mimicking the "My other car's a Ferrari" stickers that were often seen at the time. At the time I was buying up virtually every rear-engined Skoda I came across (those were the days) with a view to saving them.  I thought it would be ironic/hilarious* to stick one on every car as it would be true. I stuck one on my Rapid, decided it just looked naff, and never used the rest. I think they are still in the loft somewhere.

[barefoot]

I have a sticker-bombed VWT2, one of which reads, 'I don't care if your dad had one'.