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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 Now that's been replaced by cars with hi-viz vest/jackets on parcel shelves.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Now that's been replaced by cars with hi-viz vest/jackets on parcel shelves.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
[i]got one keeps grease off your trouser swhen using the boot[/i]
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!
Small steering wheels, like those you used to get in Mini Coopers, about the diameter of a 160mm disc these days, then drilled out in the alloy arms..
Way.
Cool.
Junior.
Screw-on petrol caps.
1975 ish?I suspect you mean per litre
Yes, I meant per litre. I do still just about remember prices being displayed in gallons though.
My mum used to stop on the way to school with us and ask the man for £5 worth.
I remember my Dad always having to go to Halfords to buy a cassette player and hang it under the dash whenever he got a new car.
Wind down windows.
Having to reach over/back to unlock each door - the fun of getting in the same side as the driver then not opening the door for my brothers..
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How could I forget these!
Weller Wheels 😉
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Having to reach over/back to unlock each door - the fun of getting in the same side as the driver then not opening the door for my brothers..
Ah yes.. heheh.. we'd snap the lock up and down really fast so the person outside had to try and pull the handle at the exact right instant.
Wing Mirrors
Rear Window Louver Sun Shade (Normally found on Ford Cortina's)
Smurfs from the National garage.
Ah.....I fondly remember the trips to National with my Dad in the late 70's/early 80's just to get my next Smurf. Oh Happy Days.........
Whilst on holiday in France in 2010, Kinder were giving away Smuffs with Kinder eggs (Which were very similar to the old National Smurfs). I explained to my kids about the National Smurfs but they just didn't get it.
actual minis
"on a mission" stickers
silly letter styles on number plates
tin of fruit flavoured hard boiled sweets in white powder AND/OR extra strong mints.
a tub of wet wipes only for emergecy use, they'd been there so long they dried up.
a small chamois covered sponge for removing condensation from the inside of windows.
heaters that only emit heat after ~ 1 hour of driving
foot operated high/low beam button on the floor next to pedals (morris minor)
foot operated high/low beam button on the floor next to pedals
So if someone comes around a corner whilst you are changing gear they get dazzled for a second?
Yup havent seen one of those for a whileThose coiled cables attaching motorcyclists to their bikes ignition key
Ermm...got one in the Mondeo - have you ever visited Wolverhampton?Steering wheel locks and bars,
Bloke had got one on the M5 only last Fri night think it was a VWReflective rear triangles behind broken down cars
At least three cars in the car park now with them onDoor bumper guards
Bloke over the road has got one c/w every other caravanning accessory evahTow bar ball covers
I'll give you that onecd,s stuck in the window rubber, to deflect speed camera rays
Seen more than one of those Churchill dogs. Cushions/rugs/blankets still very much in vogue with our overseas cousinsNodding dogs and cushions on the rear window cill
One of the neighbours has been to Centre Parcs if that counts.Stickers saying ive been to Todmorden etc,etc,
I wish 🙂What a pointless load of accesories to buy, glad theyve all but become extinct.
So if someone comes around a corner whilst you are changing gear they get dazzled for a second?
Side of the foot, a bit like driving heel & toe
I remember a paraffin heater going under the car engine in winter.and formula shell petrol that burnt the car valves also remember lying under cars welding the rustbucket sills etc. Thank **** for modern technology
So if someone comes around a corner whilst you are changing gear they get dazzled for a second?
I'm trying to work out why they're not used any more too.
Don't forget there were fewer cars travelling at significantly lower speeds, so not quite as dangerous as doing the same today.
AA patrolmen on motorcycle and sidecar, who saluted.
Asking at the garage for '5 gallons and a shot of Redex please'.
Bubble cars.
Bubble cars
Maybe they all drove too close to the garage door, and now can't get out? 😉
Crypton tuning vans.
Mate of mine had his CB400f tuned by a mobile service and burnt holes in all the pistons 100 miles later. 😕
Those extra long toggle switches looked like womens stick on fingernails,
clip on wheel trims,that unclip at speeds over 85mph,
Yes, I meant per litre. I do still just about remember prices being displayed in gallons though.My mum used to stop on the way to school with us and ask the man for £5 worth.
I remember fuel being 50p/litre in the early-mid eighties, my Mum used to do the same thing, stop every other day for £5 worth.
[i]Having to reach over/back to unlock each door - the fun of getting in the same side as the driver then not opening the door for my brothers.. [/i]
In a similar vein on my old Citroen ZX you could only open the boot using the ignition key. It was a bit of a pain dropping off people who had bags in the boot as you had to switch the ignition off, give them the key and wait for them to return it before you could drive off.
[i]a small chamois covered sponge for removing condensation from the inside of windows.[/i]
Still use one of these.
An operative of a petrol station filling up your vehicle with fuel from a petrol pump that looked like a robot, and taking your money to an office and bringing you the change, you always made sure you asked for a fivers worth as opposed to so many gallons, to avoid giving a tip to said operative, if it didnt reach a value of a fiver or a tenner.
jota180 42.9
no that would be per gallon!! remember them? there was uproar when petrol got to 5o p per gallon.
When was petrol ever 42.9p / Gallon ??
(Edit - answered my own question. Very early 70's just after decimalisation)