Smurfs, cuddly toys etc hanging from rear bumpers...

[TriumphVitesse]

Can anyone shed any light on what this means? I have seen a few cars with smurfs & other small cuddly toys hanging from rear bumpers recently. Last night a lad who is a friend of one of the neighbours pulled up in his Corsa VXR GTi VTech 1.2 with one hanging from his bumper!!

Is it an indication that you belong to some sort of clan/religious sect/dogging group ???

[Baked_bean]

I think it comes from the jap drift scene, as the motion of the hanging object acts as a rudimentary g meter.

However i have no idea why knobs in fwd shopping cars do it.

[bicycleshorts]

Yep, "drift charms" or something similar.

I believe they were big in Japan for showing how low your car was (e.g. a small hoop which touched the ground) but google is failing me at the minute.

ETA:

I stuck a snoopy on my mx5 for it going round Europe (good luck from the GF). It went over 1000 miles then stayed on for another couple of thousand back in the UK.



Then I went to Milton Keynes for a weekend and some bd stole it!

Edited by bicycleshorts on Tuesday 13th December 13:24

[Crease]

another thing thats been stolen from the japs and their crazy drift scene

think it was the VAG scene that commodered them first, and now its filtered through to the barryboy chavs

[TriumphVitesse]

Yeah, seen a few Golfs...usually lowered chavved up pieces of ste with them.

Its amazing what catches on!!

[TriumphVitesse]

bicycleshorts said:

Yep, "drift charms" or something similar.

I believe they were big in Japan for showing how low your car was (e.g. a small hoop which touched the ground) but google is failing me at the minute.

ETA:

I stuck a snoopy on my mx5 for it going round Europe (good luck from the GF). It went over 1000 miles then stayed on for another couple of thousand back in the UK.



Then I went to Milton Keynes for a weekend and some bd stole it!

Edited by bicycleshorts on Tuesday 13th December 13:24

My missus has a little smurf toy inside the Rover, I might hang it from the back of my MX-5 and see how long it takes before its stolen. Then we can see if Huddersfield is a better place to live than Milton Keynes!

[Alexlfc]

I had a pg tips monkey hanging off my tow hook on my fairly modified civic, used to get loads of odd stares and people pointing haha. I think on bog standard cars it looks really out of place tho, the other day I saw a nice Merc with loads of smurfs hanging down and it looked tacky.

[NightRunner]

On RWD I can understand.

On FWD I don't.

[106Lad]

Aparantly the hoops were stolen from Japans subway and hooked onto cars to show theyre "badass" (not my words)

[Attym3]

bicycleshorts said:

Yep, "drift charms" or something similar.

I believe they were big in Japan for showing how low your car was (e.g. a small hoop which touched the ground) but google is failing me at the minute.

ETA:

I stuck a snoopy on my mx5 for it going round Europe (good luck from the GF). It went over 1000 miles then stayed on for another couple of thousand back in the UK.



Then I went to Milton Keynes for a weekend and some bd stole it!

Edited by bicycleshorts on Tuesday 13th December 13:24

Some horrible barstuard did this to Elmo!

[stropley]

I saw a smurf toy hanging from the fuel filler flap of an old Scooby wagon yesterday - WTF?

[pidsy]

covered here a few days ago....

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... on the back of cars?

the thread linked to the drifting forum is well worth a read.