Car mods no one seems to do any more

[Morningside]

Not a car mod but a bike mod to get round the licence laws enabling you (back then) to ride a much larger machine by installing basically a tea tray with a wheel.

[aeropilot]

AdeTuono said:

aeropilot said:

Turn7 said:

aeropilot said:

Turn7 said:

supertouring said:

Chain link steering wheels and fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror.

Bullet hole stickers

I'll see your chain link wheel and raise you Jack up kits and rear window Louvres...

Back in the late 70's, the lad who lived a few doors down from us, had the full set on his Mk3 Cortina...

Jack up kit, Wolfies, red light over the axle, rear window louvres, chain link steering wheel, furry dice, and something not mentioned yet......a fur trimmed dash top

And/or zoomies or sidewinder exhausts....

Hmmmmm.........deffo not zoomies.

I think he did run a set of sidepipes on it for a bit, not long though, they were the ones with the cheese grater type pipe cover.

Thrush sidepipes!

Aaahhhhh.........yes, Thrush, them's the ones

[irocfan]

have we had these yet?

[JimbobVFR]

Morningside said:

Not a car mod but a bike mod to get round the licence laws enabling you (back then) to ride a much larger machine by installing basically a tea tray with a wheel.

The Sidewinder

[bristolracer]

JimbobVFR said:

Morningside said:

Not a car mod but a bike mod to get round the licence laws enabling you (back then) to ride a much larger machine by installing basically a tea tray with a wheel.

The Sidewinder

They often got left under peoples bumpers when the rider forgot about it while filtering in traffic.

[Turn7]

JimbobVFR said:

The Sidewinder

Got my licence with that little dodge !

[Dapster]

Wowser! What a great pic! On the left of the Cortina I can see a 1275GT Mini and a green Mk 1 Polo, a blue All-Agro on the right, and the barge on the brakes looks like an E23 following the Landie.

[Iva Barchetta]

yonex said:

These were everywhere when I was a youth

I've still got 1 of those ,not a pair....

[Gunk]

Dapster said:

Wowser! What a great pic! On the left of the Cortina I can see a 1275GT Mini and a green Mk 1 Polo, a blue All-Agro on the right, and the barge on the brakes looks like an E23 following the Landie.

The 1275GT has the Dunlop Denovo wheels, early version of run flats.

[Downward]

ambuletz said:

Morette lights- You don't seem to see cars with them anymore. they usually be one of the first things anyone would do along with a body kit.



Also I never quite understood why everyone who decided to swap their headlights to one of a different manufacturer always ended up using ones from the peugeot 306 or 407 coupe.

Has some on my 306. They weren't morettes though. Pretty sure they were Peugeot sport out the dealer as also had the Peugeot sport rear spoiler.

[richs2891]

Boomerang aerials


https://goo.gl/images/0kzQnR

[AlexRS2782]

How about optional 3rd brake lights with a slogan or manufacturer branding? As fitted to the Rover 600 auto courtesy car i've been running around in the past few days.

[DoubleD]

AlexRS2782 said:

How about optional 3rd brake lights with a slogan or manufacturer branding? As fitted to the Rover 600 auto courtesy car i've been running around in the past few days.

Who uses rover 600s as courtesy cars?

[Gunk]

DoubleD said:

AlexRS2782 said:

How about optional 3rd brake lights with a slogan or manufacturer branding? As fitted to the Rover 600 auto courtesy car i've been running around in the past few days.

Who uses rover 600s as courtesy cars?

Places like this

[ambuletz]

^pah. you'd be lucky to have a courtesy car from an indie IMO. When I was little my dad has his own garage in bow (the road by the court house). Neither my dad or the other guys down the road had one afaik.

[AlexRS2782]

DoubleD said:

Who uses rover 600s as courtesy cars?

Small long-running local that I used to do a few jobs on my mums MG ZR. The 600 had been p/x'd against a ZT they sold a few days ago and as their normal courtesy car hadn't been returned they gave me the 600 to use. In fairness it was actually quite a nice car to drive / waft around in tbh

[TooMany2cvs]

ambuletz said:

^pah. you'd be lucky to have a courtesy car from an indie IMO. When I was little my dad has his own garage in bow (the road by the court house). Neither my dad or the other guys down the road had one afaik.

London, innit? Courtesy car not exactly needed, what with public transport an' everything.

[67Dino]

Grahamdub said:

Gunk said:

I remember having my brand new car being pulled apart to fit one of these bad boys

I used to fit the first car phones as a lad. The control box was the size of a small briefcase and you would have to try and hide it somewhere and then route the huge cable through the car somehow. You couldn't ring directly either. Every call had to go via an operator. Ah, the good old days ...

I had a car phone fitted to my MG Midget in 1991. The glowing-numeral handset with curly cord went between the seats and the shoebox of electronics practically filled the boot. I thought it looked epic, and believe it was the first phone ever fitted to an MG. With good reason: I couldn't hear a blessed thing on it when the actually driving...

[anonymous-user]

pits said:

Probably 20 pages too late for this, but there is one I do actually miss because on the right car it worked very well.
Not the horrible wheels or body kit on this, but the single wiper conversion

stheaps like that used to be a really common sight around South Wales, but your modern chav is so much less ambitious. You just see lowered Golfs with tints now.

[Morningside]

67Dino said:

Grahamdub said:

Gunk said:

I remember having my brand new car being pulled apart to fit one of these bad boys

I used to fit the first car phones as a lad. The control box was the size of a small briefcase and you would have to try and hide it somewhere and then route the huge cable through the car somehow. You couldn't ring directly either. Every call had to go via an operator. Ah, the good old days ...

I had a car phone fitted to my MG Midget in 1991. The glowing-numeral handset with curly cord went between the seats and the shoebox of electronics practically filled the boot. I thought it looked epic, and believe it was the first phone ever fitted to an MG. With good reason: I couldn't hear a blessed thing on it when the actually driving...

Had mine fitted to my Rover SD1. I did not look when they drilled the hole for the roof aerial. It was an NEC model and the box was bolted to the rear seat with massive cables coming to the front and the power cable looked like it could handle tens of amps. Had a hands free option when the handset was in the cradle but most of the time you picked it up because it was useless. Call costs were crazy as well. 50p a minute I think even if you went a second over.