Those coiled cables attaching motorcyclists to their bikes ignition key,
Steering wheel locks and bars,
Reflective rear triangles behind broken down cars,
Door bumper guards,
Tow bar ball covers,
cd,s stuck in the window rubber, to deflect speed camera rays,
Nodding dogs and cushions on the rear window cill,
Stickers saying ive been to Todmorden etc,etc,
What a pointless load of accesories to buy, glad theyve all but become extinct.
Indicating off roundabouts?
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Are you sure you're actually awake project?
I still have a reflective triangle
And I have a high vis vest and breathalyser, but they're in the boot.
What about vinyl roofs ?
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Ahh, I've always wondered why I used to see taxis with a cd dangling from the rear view mirror. Now I know it wasn't a cheap decoration!
Those things that used to dangle out the back of cars onto rhe floor. Didnt know what they were for at the time.
Still see loads of reflective triangles, just people put them about 2 yards behind the car rendering them pointless.
Those rubber strips which used to hang off the back of cars, sometimes with a lighting bolt on them. I think they were grounding strips or something to get rid of static?
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Are you sure you're actually awake project?
thought i would try a non provocative thread for once
the early morning continual turning over, gradually slowing down and ending in a loud clicking of flattened battery
sorry double post
Those plastic fingers which made it look like you had someone trapped in your boot. They were brilliant.
A full size spare wheel, you know like the other ones fitted to your car as standard
007 bullet holes
Those refractive lenses that hung on the back window to make it easier to park.
I have just bought one from Amazon 🙂
Windscreen strips with names on them
Stick on Garfields
A nice empty motorway to drive on for pleasure. Ah, I remember those days...
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I use 2T motorbike engine oil as my fuel additive ... dare to try that?
Zebrazone windscreens.
stick on heated rear windscreen things,
those stupid m4 numerals on german cars, the ones without rear view mirrors and indicators that work.
Opening quarter lights.
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Beading seat covers
External windscreen visors
Two tone paintjobs
Whitewall tyres
Man in front with a red flag(my first job)
Children in shorts stuck to vinyl seats in the Summer.
I was never aware of them being common in the UK - but don't think they have disappeared now. Perhaps there are fewer broken down cars at the side of the road now?
Reflective rear triangles behind broken down cars,
really? other than removable balls / swan necks I think they are still very common (more than 50% of standard tow balls covered). Indeed mechanic I know suggested they should be more common as tow ball is now part of MOT but they won't remove the cover to inspect!Tow bar ball covers,
what? I've never seen such a thing. Not sure how it would work either. Perhaps an urban myth hence never spread...?cd,s stuck in the window rubber, to deflect speed camera rays,
still see them on young women's cars round here...Nodding dogs and cushions on the rear window cill,
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New Ford Focus has built in door bumpers...they pop out when you open the door...very nice touch.
Cassette tape, streaming in the wind on the central reservation.
I still have a tow bar cover and a rear triangle in my boot. Steering lock got chucked in the skip on Saturday.
string-backed driving gloves
trilby hats for the over-forties
Where can you get a Ive been to Todmorden sticker?
Where can you get a Ive been to Todmorden sticker?
Fat willys surf shack stickers
Radio antenna on the front wing.
Manual choke
Sunroofs
Big eff off aerials, gold / brown paint jobs
A nice empty motorway to drive on for pleasure. Ah, I remember those days... In this:
You should try the M180, you have to dodge the tumbleweed
It goes to S****horpe and Grimsby though so falls over on the pleasure side of it.
Whiplash aerials
Green sun strips ( ken & madge)
Weller white wheels
Pool ball gear knob
Reliant robins ( usually with pigeon basket in rear)
that bloke flashing his bum
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AA badges and saluting AA patrol men/women
(I remember the badges but only seen the latter on Heartbeat)
edit: @Brakes - brilliant! I had forgotten about them.
Wire coat hanger instead of an snapped off radio antena.
I have a thimble style towball cover, on a towbar fitted last year!
I remember my Dad:
- Fitting a radio (without cassette) to a car with no radio, and installing a rubber aerial on the wing.
- Having to fit a locking fuel filler cap
- Keeping tools in the car to fix it when it by the roadside (although never actually needing them, we had Japanese cars!)
- Carrying WD-40, you know, for the distributor cap
- Fitting five point harnesses to the back of the car for us kids. This was in the days before child seats, and when everyone else's parents let them rattle around in the back completely unprotected. Makes me shudder to think of it now. The straps and buckles were encrusted with dried puke, I was never a good traveller and being sat down on the seat with no external view didn't help either!
- I only just remember this - fitting a second wing mirror to the nearside wing, which is where they actually used to be hence the name.
Those clip on vanes for making your wipers work better at high speed...
mahoosive aerials
extra spot lights, blocking the radiator
AA, RAC, IAM etc badges, on a bar also blocking the radiator, sometimes with extra badges gleaned on touring holidays to Scotland or the 'Westcountry'
Those vinyl radiator covers to prevent over-cooling in the winter
Stickers with 'Divvent dunshus' on them. At least I don't see many in Devon 🙂
my dad mourns the VW 'wave'
discarded porn in lay-bys
Still see loads of reflective triangles, just people put them about 2 yards behind the car rendering them pointless.
I was never aware of them being common in the UK - but don't think they have disappeared now. Perhaps there are fewer broken down cars at the side of the road now?
They're (still) law in some places in Europe (Germany, definitely), and not just to carry in the car, but is law to actually use and place so many paces before the car when broken down.
What were those rubber lightning dangly things for anyway? Just a pure placebo and someone raking in the £ ?
they were anti-static straps weren't they? Probably needed due to people wearing lots of polyester clothing and rubber soled comfortable shoes.