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Tow bar ball covers,
got one keeps grease off your trouser swhen using the boot
Leather steering wheel covers, and starting handles - my first car had one, and jolly useful it proved too, on a few occasions.
A Lancia.
I am rebodying a 1969 Scimitar as a 1950's Le Mans 'special' at the moment. Last parked up in 1989.
I am making notes for period details.
go faster stripes
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there's an Austin Montego near me that has a steering wheel bar lock.
makes me chuckle when I walk past it - it's not even a MG Turbo, and it's burgundy. who's going to nick that?
String back driving gloves. Ah ha!!
Lock defrosters
Little black boxes with a 9v battery that had a pop out strip of copper that
Heated up to defrost the lock
Maybe just a scottish niche product for skiers
Ashtrays
Reading through all that has reminded me that, when I was about 15, I got involved in helping do the comms for the Cartel Rally up in Dalby. My dad was driving and I came home from the meeting with an official rally vehicle number (R02 I seem to remember) that he had to put on the side of his car to get in. Bear in mind this was a Diesel Escort...
Very wrong
Rachel
A nice empty motorway to drive on for pleasure. Ah, I remember those days... In this:
On the motorways in Eire ,totally deserted around Fermoy n mitchelstown.
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tan string back gloves
what a lovely thread i started,James May eat your heart out.
anyone mention the LA CRUSHIACHA HORN, that played the tune,
and those huge 8 track things like cassetes,
bead seat covers,and inflatable lumbar supports,
furry dice,
We have seen the Lions of Longleat sticker in rear window!
My grandad always had a spherical compass on a sucker stuck to his dashboard. And also a tartan travel blanket on the parcel shelf in case passengers got cold 🙂
has anyone ever seen a parcel on the parcel shelf??
Ziebart-ing, and accompanying sticker.
My first car had been Ziebarted, so just rusted downwards, rather than upwards.
tartan travel blanket
was to lay across the vinyl back seat so you could actually sit on it in summer without branding the backs of your legs.
has anyone ever seen a parcel on the parcel shelf??
nope, but I did actually keep gloves in the glove compartment. cheap C+A ones to wear when de-icing the screen.
Aftermarket car phones. Huge great things that used to sit in the console between driver and passenger seats.
Also, those aftermarket immobiliser units you could buy, you had to type in a PIN code to release them.
My grandfather had both of those. He was ever so proud of the phone.
Parcel on parcel shelf - I remember in Oxfordshire the police in unmarked cars were told to put hard hats on the parcel shelf so they din't look like coppers.
Unfortunately this became wide spread knowledge so you simply slowed and waved at the copper whenever you saw a hard hat on the parcel shelf. It was 6 months before the boss plod who thought oif the idea agreed it wasn't working.
And also a tartan travel blanket on the parcel shelf in case passengers got cold
weren't they for wrapping round old ladies, in case they needed a roadside piss, or some such discretionary needs...
There's a garage near me still has a petrol-pump attendant.
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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
My sister and I had those! My father had to sell his MGB after I was born and got a Triumph Stag (most of which he still has, keeps saying he'll do it up again one day) Anyway, we had those in the back.
Didn't get the Stag straight away mind, my carrycot fitted behind the seats of the MG so I used to travel wedged in there.
One of these stuck to the back window:
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Smurfs from the National garage.
The little glass domes on the petrol pumps.
White crayons to colour in your tyre logos.
Yellow headlights on French cars.
Cheap fuel?
Beam deflectors,
those perpex covers that clipped on,
Esso tigers tails,
Those black plastic grill things that were on the back window. Seriously, what were they for!
Gavin and Tracey sticker on the top of windscreens
Fury dice
CB ariels on cars
Beaded seat covers
Lucas 20-20's
Thinking about how often do you see old rust bucket cars driving around in grey primer?
Lol just thought of another - vinyl roofs 😉
Exhaust deflectors
Sheepskin seat covers
Audioline speakers for your parcel shelf
Mk1 escorts with bad bubble arch jobs, full of plastic padding filler 🙂
Oscars and Super Oscars.
Ayrton Senna.
bob summers, I saw yellow headlights tonight for the first time in years!
I really wanted a citron for oh, seconds until I realised the German car I was in didn't break down...!
Clearalex screen wash powder sachets (best stuff ever).
Upper Cylinder Lubricant (Redex) dispensers on the forecourt.
Toughened windscreens (the ones that show a dotted pattern when looked at with Polaroid glasses).
Hand signals (at least not the rude type!).
A white car and thinking it wasn't the base peasant spec model. Now seems to be the Chav colour of choice.
Splodges of silver paint on heated rear windows where people have fixed breaks.
Half clothes pegs jammed in to doors to hold up windows.
' Oakley Thermonuclear Protection ' sticker in the rear window.
Also, in the 1980's used to see a spate of cars with squash rackets on their rear parcel shelves... Now that's been replaced by cars with hi-viz vest/jackets on parcel shelves. WTF ??
"Atomkraft? Nein Danke"
CD's on the RVmirror are still compulsory on the south side of glasgow. Sported by asian drivers and mums on the school run.
Now that's been replaced by cars with hi-viz vest/jackets on parcel shelves. WTF ??
:O) That,and the white hard hats placed on the parcel shelf.
'o.k, I'm off to work but FIRST.. I must open the rear door (or tailgate) and place my white hard hat on the parcel shelf' Instead of chucking it in the kin passenger floorwell?!
Truckers piss in GLASS Tizer bottles.
Just found the real answer to the cd in the mirror thing..
It's so when speed cameras try to catch your car the CD's reflect the sun back into the cameras to blind them. Clever I'll admit but also illegal 🙂
Fake woodgrain body panels.
CB antennas.
Cellular phone antennas stuck to windows.
Esso bullet hole stickers, World Cup coins
+ loads of other filling station giveaways, if you knew a truck driver, you'd never be short of drinking glasses