Car mods no one seems to do any more

[Spare tyre]

Shakermaker said:

Spare tyre said:

Doug Phillips said:

So that you could show off the jag IRS diff, that you had grafted onto your motor I have once seen one on a Vaxhall Rascle van, with a Perspex rear door and a rover V8 in the back

Kerwality

Incidentally I'm after a bit swish camper van, sadly the only thing in my budget seems to be rascal campers

As the resident PH Rascal owner, I am duly required to inform you 'there's nothing wrong with a Rascal'

I'd get one, but it won't fit four people in, seen a Suzuki bambi which I guess is the same

Bambi campervan
https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/bam...

Edited by Spare tyre on Saturday 13th August 10:04

[99t]

Have we had this yet?

[HTP99]

Those fat bloke dolls which sucker to a window, you press a bulb and his trousers drop down to moon the car behind you.

[e21Mark]

CB radios and mag mount aerials.

[rohrl]

HTP99 said:

Those fat bloke dolls which sucker to a window, you press a bulb and his trousers drop down to moon the car behind you.

Seymour Butts

[zebra]

HerrSchnell said:

DoctorX said:

Those louvre things on the rear screens.

Thank god for that

Still available on certain cars.....

[matchmaker]

Stick on rear window heaters.

[rohrl]

"Funny" bumper stickers saying things like "Insured by the mafia - You hit us, We hit you" or "Honk if you bonk"

[rich85uk]

Lexus lights

[s m]

stuartmmcfc said:

Has anyone mentioned those chrome "sheaths" that slipped over your exhaust tail pipe and changed your rusty old steel pipe into a chrome one .
Until the whole thing rusted and dropped off a few weeks later.

BMW still use those ( and black chrome ones )

[motco]

matchmaker said:

Stick on rear window heaters.

Good one! Oh, and much earlier, stick on with rubber suction cups, the heated demisters on windscreens. Desmo I seem to recall...

Real wing mirrors...

'Peaks' on headlights...

[J4CKO]

I found some old Custom car mags fromt he seventies, gave them my dad to have a look at, will try and get them back and scan in some of the ads, they were hillarious.

[Megaflow]

chedder said:

Rear jack up kit, black plastic Louvre blinds for the outside of the rear window and 12" high 'Turbo' stickers down the sides.

Don't forget the Wolfrace slot mags.

[Hugh Jarse]

Stickyfinger said:

HerrSchnell said:

DoctorX said:

Those louvre things on the rear screens.

Thank god for that

Like a SAAB on 3 spokes, I have to disagree with some

Swede's call those a chicken staircase
The SAAB wheel design derives from Scania's logo.

[Spitfire2]

DoctorX said:

Those louvre things on the rear screens.

If I could find a decent one of those for my Capri it would be getting fitted

[Stickyfinger]

Spitfire2 said:

If I could find a decent one of those for my Capri it would be getting fitted

Old stuff on old cars is perfectly acceptable

[vikingaero]

Hugh Jarse said:

The SAAB wheel design derives from Scania's logo.

[cough]Saabs VikingAero 3 spoke was one of the best looking wheels ever...!

[bigkeeko]

Names on sunstrips on windscreens. M badges on non M cars......oh hang on.....

Dice or bullet valve caps? Another one I remember people doing was drilling a vertical hole in the back of your exhaust and dropping a nail through it. The automotive equivalent of a playing card in your spokes.

[Spitfire2]

HerrSchnell said:

Thank god for that

Awful. Those rear ones were made so the wiper didn't have to be removed. The flush fitting ones are not as ridiculous.

The side ones though - oh dear.

[TooMany2cvs]

Spitfire2 said:

The side ones though - oh dear.

Yeh, no car could ever look good with those...