Car mods no one seems to do any more

[Bago]

POS-A-TRACTION TORQUE TWISTER TYRES !!!!

[scottmelvin96]

Centre window wiper kits.
Crap peeling self applied tints
Custom valve caps
Air horns ☺

[s m]

Bago said:

POS-A-TRACTION TORQUE TWISTER TYRES !!!!

GENERAL GRABBERS!

[chrislloyd81]

Bad boy bonnets

[chrislloyd81]

I wonder how much longer painted black wheels and blacked out badges will stay in fashion?

[TazLondon]

Wind deflectors on wiper blades

Door edge protectors

A jack (who actually changes wheels these days?)

[Doddymotor]

Easy:

Tsw venoms
3 spoke rims
Jap style body kits
Renault espace wing mirror vents
Subaru/Mitsubishi evolution bonnet vents
Neons
DTM exhaust pipes
Headlight conversion
Flip paint jobs
Blue side light bulbs
Jap style front wing stickers
Fast and furious style graphics
Rear boot lid smoothing, plate relocation
BMW halo style headlights
Lexus style tail lights
Dump valves
Alcantara seats
Cobra bucket seats
Tvr style door popper
Lamborghini door kits
Matt black paint
Weber 45 carburetors
BMW m3 wing mirrors
Mesh grilles

[blueST]

s m said:

GENERAL GRABBERS!

Err, my car has got General Grabbers and it was built in 07!

[grumpy52]

littlebasher said:

FakeConcern said:

Nudge bars, vinyl roof, rear wiper, mudflaps all in pictures. Over size SU carbs with LCB manifold not shown!





Minis all belonged to me, MG Metro belonged to my dad.

Many a mini around my way had those nudge bars - most were also fitted with a rear facing halogen spot as a reversing light.

I built a mini back in the day for the first wife .
Mars red ,Grp4 arches ,6" × 10" wheels ,1100 engine ,modded head ,cam ,carb ,lcb peco big bore , super minifin drums ,nudge bars tinted windows mountney wheel etc .
When the wife got pregnant I sold it to my sisters very chesty friend who wrote it off within 3 weeks .

[j_s14a]

SonicShadow said:

I have 3 spoke Advans on my MR2. I think they are lovely. I know they are pretty polarising, but that suits me fine as it means they are usually cheap to buy!

Has the rear suspension collapsed? Lovely looking car, but they drive like a dogs with that much negative camber.

[Butter Face]

littlebasher said:

Live manifold data

Actually reality (kinda) thanks to Bluetooth enabled ECUs and iPhone apps.



Ok so it's inlet temp and MAP but it's live manifold data!

[grumpy52]

Those stickers like Rally Drivers do it Sideways or Stock car drivers go in harder .

[ArnieVXR]

Garfields suckered onto side windows
Utterly enormous steering wheel locks that looked like bin lids
Anti-roadrage boxes that played machine gun noises when you press a button (inside the car!)

[dickyf]

Wiper Louvers.

[AlexDalton]

'BadBoy' bonnet mods!

[Malachimon]

The biggest mod I can think of that was a one-year-wonder was those black strips you always saw on the front of people's bonnets. Everyone had them, vans, boy racers, cheap GTs, what happened to them? Did people realise they were useless and looked idiotic, or did they just go out of fashion like a meme?

As for factory mods, what happened to huge amounts of chrome, huge engines, tiny pillars, massive fins, bench seats, column shifters, stupidly soft suspension, ride heights that would be useless here.... Basically what happened to those late 50s yank tanks compared to the miserable namby-pamby boxes people drive now?

[DoubleD]

j_s14a said:

SonicShadow said:

I have 3 spoke Advans on my MR2. I think they are lovely. I know they are pretty polarising, but that suits me fine as it means they are usually cheap to buy!

Has the rear suspension collapsed? Lovely looking car, but they drive like a dogs with that much negative camber.

Probably just the uneven ground that its on

[lel]

I'm getting a lot of ideas from this thread, already got the backflash and cheesy coachlines thanks to the first owner

[drewos]

VW Transporter T4 wing vent welded in to mk2 golf wings and other VAG cars.
And those cross hair lights come to mention it...

[Cacatous]

Dale487 said:

Morgan do a Spitfire paint job for the 3 wheeler, which includes bullet hole stickers.

I like this take on bullet holes...