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[Tamworthbay]

I am in the process of clearing my garage of thirty years of accumulated high quality automotive items (mostly tat) and I found an old catalogue from JG Bestwick in Derby. It got me thinking about some of the crap motorfactors have sold over the years. I have two favourites, the first was an aftermarket leccy window kit my mate fitted to his death trap of a clubman. You just took off the winder, screwed this thing to the door and fed it 12 v. Everytime the window got to the top or bottom it would chatter as the gears jumped as it had no auto stop. It eventually died with enough smoke coming out of it to cause us to abandon the car for a few minutes on the A52. The other was those stupid lightning conductors for the rear bumper made of that famous conductor - RUBBER! What were they about?

[cal844]

Haha some of them make me think

[sledgehammer]

The other was those stupid lightning conductors for the rear bumper made of that famous conductor - RUBBER! What were they about?

 

Anti static strip - If you have had a car that gives you a shock , these work

 

the car I have at the moment with the original tyres didn't give a shock

 

I have since replaced them - now I get hell of a shock on a dry warm day

 

so I have used copper wire to ground the car - it works

 

I think the rubber is slightly conductive

Edited by sledgehammer, 09 April 2015 - 07:21 PM.

[Stu.]

I once had a car that gave static shocks. I just made sure the Wife touched the car first

[Tamworthbay]

The other was those stupid lightning conductors for the rear bumper made of that famous conductor - RUBBER! What were they about?

 
Anti static strip - If you have had a car that gives you a shock , these work
 
the car I have at the moment with the original tyres didn't give a shock
 
I have since replaced them - now I get hell of a shock on a dry warm day
 
so I have used copper wire to ground the car - it works
 
I think the rubber is slightly conductive

pure rubber is not conductive, that's why we find it around wires and the one I tragically wasted money on when I was seventeen was solid rubber as far as I could tell, plus the fact that were often seen bolted to plastic bumpers suggest that the chances of them working is about as great as the chance of me being the next Pope. Copper would work for obvious reasons.

[Tamworthbay]

What about this:

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item35e3575fce

I bet you will all be rushing out to buy one

[megamini_jb]

Plus this:

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5d444dd4e1

[Miniminx71]

What about this:

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item35e3575fce

I bet you will all be rushing out to buy one

There really is no better name for a 'dump valve simulator fake turbo sound blow off noise whistler' is there.

 

I thought a 'blow off noise' was a fart though? And some do whistle as well ... 

[AVV IT]

How dare you mock the 70's legend that was Anti static straps!!!

Oh those were the days, no Capri. Granada or Vauxhall Viva would be seen without a couple of them scraping along on the Tarmac behind them. I seem to recall that by reducing static they were supposed to help prevent travel sickness, or at least that's why my Dad used to have them on the back of his MkIII Cortina anyway. Of course that was back in the good ole days, when you didn't need any kind of actual scientific evidence to back up wild medical claims like that.

[Tamworthbay]

How dare you mock the 70's legend that was Anti static straps!!!
Oh those were the days, no Capri. Granada or Vauxhall Viva would be seen without a couple of them scraping along on the Tarmac behind them. I seem to recall that by reducing static they were supposed to help prevent travel sickness, or at least that's why my Dad used to have them on the back of his MkIII Cortina anyway. Of course that was back in the good ole days, when you didn't need any kind of actual scientific evidence to back up wild medical claims like that.

reduce travel sickness, that's a new one on me. Does that work on the grounds that you would be too embarassed to be seen in a car with them so you couldn't get car sick?

[sledgehammer]

the rubber / plastic anti static straps have carbon or fine wire built in to them to make them conductive 

 

they should be fitted to the metal body - not plastic bumpers

[Miniminx71]

I had some of those chrome disc things that sat inside the wheel rim when I had 'eggbox' wheel centres on an old mini. They were supposed to make the wheels look really cool and sporty but they just made them look really, really crap and shouted 'YOU CAN'T AFFORD ALLOYS!!!'

[megamini_jb]

Should get one of them trapped hand things for your Capris boot Tam

[Tamworthbay]

Should get one of them trapped hand things for your Capris boot Tam

or half a cat for the bonnet! I still have an original Garfield knocking around the house.

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