Motoring stuff you never see anymore

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Also, in the 1980’s used to see a spate of cars with squash rackets on their rear parcel shelves… Now that’s been replaced by cars with hi-viz vest/jackets on parcel shelves.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Now that’s been replaced by cars with hi-viz vest/jackets on parcel shelves.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

got one keeps grease off your trouser swhen using the boot

That reminds me…you don’t see greased tow balls anymore. (if you do, then either they only tow a piddly trailer or a really old caravan without an Alko stabiliser)

I do have a cover on my towball though so I think that one is definitely out of the running.

Proper model badges LX, GL and so on. None of this fluffy “allure” nonsense.

darkcove – Member
Proper model badges LX, GL and so on. None of this fluffy “allure” nonsense.

The days of “Yeah, we might have the same car, but mines higher up the model range than yours” have gone. No snobbery allowed it seems?

* For the record my Golf is a SE. 😉

Green Shield stamps.

bob summers, we are exactly the same age. I know it.

chrome.

Manual foot operated screen wash pumps

This car is protected by a MOSS security system

Always remember my dads just went off at stupid times of the night if a cat brushed past it

Foot operated dip switches.

Overdrive.

No synchromesh on 1st/2nd gear.

Trafficators (flip up external indicators, usually on the door pillar).

Spare wheel!?!

Black bumpers fixed outside the bodywork.

13″ wheels

And I was also going to post household items like glasses and teatowels given away with petrol but jota beat me to it.

I saw a Ford Zodiac earlier this morning

I remember as a kid, my Dad made a small (about a foot wide) trestle table for the back of his Rover 3500

It sat in the rear footwells, and was the right height so that when he put one of the caravan seat cushions on it, it was the same as the height of the rear seat. Then my sister and I could lie flat in our sleeping bags with pillows on the back seat for long journeys late at night, and miraculously wake up the next morning at home or our destination.

Holidays with the parents, navigating with a MAP, preferably on singlelane B roads in Wales or Devon. Particularly with my mum holding the map up and rotating it to match the road (or not).
“Which way?”
“Left.”
“Which left?”
“That one.”
“So right?”
“Oh. Yes.”
<turn>
“No!! THAT left!”
“You said that way, woman!”
“That way’s right!”

Petrol at under a quid a gallon.
AA/RAC phones at the roadside.
Those old style chromed aftermarket lever switches that were fitted if you had an extra like an electric arial added.
Playboy bunny stickers.
Hammerited wheels.

Holidays with the parents, navigating with a MAP, preferably on singlelane B roads in Wales or Devon. Particularly with my mum holding the map up and rotating it to match the road (or not).
“Which way?”
“Left.”
“Which left?”
“That one.”
“So right?”
“Oh. Yes.”
<turn>
“No!! THAT left!”
“You said that way, woman!”
“That way’s right!”

Ah, as a keen navigator using nature/luddite, our holidays are still like that.

There’s a certain beauty in a trans-continental drive that ends with negotiating a medieval central European city’s seemingly illogical, terribly sign-posted one way system when the roads are closed for a festival.

Well, retrospectively 😉 My wife loves it, of course.

Petrol at under a quid a gallon.

It was 42.9p when I started driving, and that wasn’t all that long ago.

When I started driving you could get 4 gallons of petrol for less than a quid

Gary_C – Member
‘ Oakley Thermonuclear Protection ‘ sticker in the rear window.

Ah yes….!

Many years ago, while I was running a bike shop, I found myself casually leaning on the massive Oakley cabinet, filled to bursting point with lovely opticalness. In walked a chap who asked me, “ere, mate, d’you sell Oakleys?”

“Why yes”, I replied, indicating the aforementioned cabinet.

“Eh?” he replied. “Nah, I mean OAKLEYS, innit!”

“Erm, yes sir, we have a very good range of them here, as you can see”

“Nah, man. OAKLEYS IS STICKERS!”

😐

My Grandad bought a NEW morris minor many, many years ago. They could only just afford it, so decided not to opt for a trivial optional extra. That’ll be the HEATER then.

Lived in Yorkshire back when we had proper winters. No idea how any of the grandkids survived past puberty. On arriving at your destination (having been driven there under the auspicious of proper Christian Motoring) we’d immediately leap out into the snow. To get warm.

I seem to remember it only had one wiper (split screen) as well.

Petrol at under a quid a gallon.

It was 42.9p when I started driving, and that wasn’t all that long ago.

It must have been a fair old while ago !

It was more almost 4 times that 30 years ago at the beginning of the 80’s

Little wipers on headlamps. Never see them anymore.

Proper model badges LX, GL and so on.

Saw a Sierra 1.8i LX on the M56 today. Looked in reasonable nick too.

It was 42.9p when I started driving, and that wasn’t all that long ago.

1975 ish?

I suspect you mean per litre

Coloured paint splat stickers circa early 90’s

jota180 42.9
no that would be per gallon!! remember them? there was uproar when petrol got to 5o p per gallon.
5 star petrol always a bit more expensive due to massive lead content
always got loads of greenshield stamps until hyper stamp inflation set in double triple quad etc etc.

jota180 42.9
no that would be per gallon!remember them?

Yes, I do remember them
I was replying to molgrips statement that it was 42.9 per gallon not so long ago
It was 1974 since it was last that price, the year I got my 1st road motorbike

Road Atlas’s
Tin of boiled sweets
Chrome hubcaps
Plastic wind deflectors for the front windows
Car coats (my grandad had one along with driving gloves and his car flat cap)

2, 3, 4, & 5 Star petrol

Road Atlas’s

Still got one that I regularly use

Only bother with the sat-nav when I’m near the destination

Tiger Tokens

Chrome hub caps look fab, IMHO, especially on the widened steel wheels on mini coopers and Lotus Cortinas. 5.5J x 13 with 165 tyres. Phwoarr!