Crazes: A flash in the pan - then it's gone.

[MarshPhantom]

Crop circles. Aliens got bored.

[GWC]

Ocean Pacific T Shirts in the mid 80s.

[Gad-Westy]

Phone Holsters

PDA's

Digital picture frames

Those little toy dogs that did back flips

Subbuteo (are kids still playing this? it seemed massive when I was young but maybe not so much fun if you're playing Fifa 2016)

Lava lamps

[Thankyou4calling]

dudleybloke said:

Technics/Pioneer/Kenwood designs jackets.
8 ball leather jackets.
Fidi-Dido.
George Foreman grills.

And the biggest flash in the pan......Flambé.

I reckon the George Foreman grill is still pretty popular, at least i have one and use it regularly.

[gizlaroc]

dudleybloke said:

Technics/Pioneer/Kenwood designs jackets.
8 ball leather jackets.

Blimey, where did you live??

I remember when we used to go back to Leicester to see family, we often went ice skating in B'ham or maybe Coventry, and there used to be hoards of blokes in those, never really saw them elsewhere though.

[tankplanker]

Bluetooth earpieces:

[Gad-Westy]

tankplanker said:

Bluetooth earpieces:

Have a colleague that still uses one. Resplendent with blue flashing LED too.

[tankplanker]

Gad-Westy said:

Have a colleague that still uses one. Resplendent with blue flashing LED too.

Do they keep their phone in a belt holster as well?

[jdw100]

tankplanker said:

Bluetooth earpieces:

Looks like an actual phone photoshopped on to the giant sized head of David beckham.....is that the best Bluetooth earpiece pic you could find?!?

[wildcat45]

I think they were called a Backflash. Reflective panels that went between the back lights and which necessitated the repositioning of the number plate and it's lights to the back bumper.

They usually bore the model of the car.

Looks like a lot of faff for some tat now.







Then there were the Suzuki spare wheel covers with shagging rhinos on them.





Replacement radiator grilles with integrated driving lights in them. I think some were even OEM accessories. Popular on MK3 Escorts and Orions.

Aftermarket wheel trims. Especially ones made to look like fake alloy wheels.

Stick on shading that you put below body side mouldings for some reason.

Aftermarket hatch style sunroofs made - or so it seemed - out of the same smoked glass used in cooker and microwave doors.

And colour coding. Mirrors, bumpers, spoilers and in the case of white cars even wheels and wipers. Best if badly done so the paint cracks and falls off. Also a good way to modernise a late model beige MKV Cortina.

Much of the above could be bought from the catalogue Carnnoisseur.

Edited by wildcat45 on Wednesday 25th May 09:55

[tankplanker]

jdw100 said:

Looks like an actual phone photoshopped on to the giant sized head of David beckham.....is that the best Bluetooth earpiece pic you could find?!?

I picked that one as he looked the most like my mental image of people that still use bluetooth headsets.

[wildcat45]

Another 1990s craze in the same vein as Garfield cats, a hammock stuck to the window by suckers with a cuddly toy rabbit in it.

Popular with girlies when I was at university. The sort of girlies who sent Purple Ronnie cards. Better than a Purple Aki card I guess.

[Voldemort]

Singing fish and their crappy animatronic cousins



and novelty telephones

[rpguk]

Bullbars. They seemed to be found on all sorts but of crap in the 90s

[Oakey]

rpguk said:

Bullbars. They seemed to be found on all sorts but of crap in the 90s

Think they were banned?

[shakotan]

Most of these don't really fit the topic title.

'Flash in the pan' indicates it was around for a very short period of time - a lot of things posted here were around for quite a while before dying out.

[The Don of Croy]

Scart leads.

And every spring there's a new system for putting liquid preservative onto your fence - because brushes simply failed the test of time...

[Thankyou4calling]

Oakey said:

Think they were banned?

Certainly not banned. Still see lots of cars fitted with them.

[MarshPhantom]

DVD players.

[anothernameitist]

Phillips video disc