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[Minimadgaz1964]

Going back many years before neon, the craze was to fit a fog light under the car to make the road under car look red

And what about those stick on brake lights for your back window that would fall off after a few weeks and just roll across your parcel shelf
every time you went around a corner

Edited by Minimadgaz1964, 12 April 2015 - 10:21 AM.

[mingy]

 

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.

 

I have still got part of a pheasant in my daily driver, they come free on a certain stretch of the A683    

[madaboutcherry]

I think spray on mud got to be the worst thing ever sold

 

just to make the Chelsea tractor look the part

 

http://www.theguardi...5/jun/14/uknews

 

gutted , I can't find it on ebay

I worked at a mazda dealership in the 80's and you could 'mud effect' decals to fit on a couple of their estate cars.

[mingy]

My mum had a digital thermometer in her old sierra sapphire. Why do you need to know what the temperature is inside your car? Just why??

 

My old 190E had those magnetic blocks that cable tie onto the fuel lines which were supposed to improve fuel economy. I can't see how??

 

How about wiper spoilers?

 

And i have a passionate dislike for cheap after market wheel trims with the big fake chrome wheel nuts on them. 

The magnetic blocks are still available today, they are supposed to alter ( excite ) the molecular structure of the fuel so as to get a cleaner more economical burn.So many people used banks of them strapped to the oil line to their oil boilers, i used to tell them the magnetic field had failed and i removed them, then used them in my service van to hold my spanners and screw drivers in place, over time they magnetized my tools enough to hold nuts and screws etc.  

[nicklouse]

Quick shifts.

[The Principal]

Fake bullet holes in 2CV's

[olly33]

Boxing gloves hanging from mirror,so other drivers think they are hard knocks and not to mess with them or there car. Ha Ha.

Edited by olly33, 20 April 2015 - 10:09 AM.

[Gerbil367]

You cant knock tartan rugs - theyre a tradition!! Best thing ever when i went skinny dipping with some nurses in my young days

[Mini Manannán]

where do you start - Whip aerials, tartan rugs, nodding dogs, those jack up kits fitted to early Cortinas added about 6 inches to the leaf springs, lake pipes 

 

Those whip aerials were fantastis - how dare you!  I saved up and put one on my Austin 1100, it was about 8' long and caught every bl**dy tree you passed but I thought I looked the muts in my motaar

[mikep12]

The best of all was a freebie from Esso in the sixties. If you bought enough petrol you got a furry 'tiger' tail to clip around your fuel filler and a sticker to say "I've got a tiger in my tank".
Now that's what I call classy, pity modern cars don't have sticky out fuel fillers any more.

Another stalwart of the sixties and seventies was some sort of sludge based on molybdenum sulphide that you put in through the plug holes to 'restore compression and liven up tired old engines' it was crap but gave just enough temporary improvement to manage to sell a heap of dung that used more oil than petrol.

[madaboutcherry]

The best of all was a freebie from Esso in the sixties. If you bought enough petrol you got a furry 'tiger' tail to clip around your fuel filler and a sticker to say "I've got a tiger in my tank".
Now that's what I call classy, pity modern cars don't have sticky out fuel fillers any more.

Another stalwart of the sixties and seventies was some sort of sludge based on molybdenum sulphide that you put in through the plug holes to 'restore compression and liven up tired old engines' it was crap but gave just enough temporary improvement to manage to sell a heap of dung that used more oil than petrol.

just put sawdust into the engine, it's much cheaper.

[mab01uk]

Never tried it......but back in the 70's the green Swafega Hand cleaner mixed with sawdust was said to quieten down noisy gearboxes and diffs/back axles long enought to sell an old banger on......

[Juniors mini]

How about LED washer jets and number plate bolts

[Ben_O]

How about LED washer jets and number plate bolts

Ha ha, I sold a car recently that had the washer jets. I oonly fitted them as i couldn't clear the standard ones enough to work properly and i found a set in the back of a cupboard that i think came free on a magazine.

I apologised to the buyer about them when he viewed it and he said he liked them!

 

They weren't wired up though 

[ChopperHarris]

yeah yeah yeah Ben