Motoring Fads

[screenman]

You need to jack the car up to be able to put a jack underneath .

Simple, you just push a button on the dash and up she rises.

 

[screenman]

I think I have dropped into another one of those sound like your dad topics.

 

[Cycleops]

Personalised number plates, still a thing, especially if you’re a billionaire (supposedly).

What fun it would be to get a marker and change that 1 to a C.

 

[raleighnut]

Personalised number plates, still a thing, especially if you’re a billionaire (supposedly).
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What fun it would be to get a marker and change that 1 to a C.

That's a lot of *UNTs

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Simple, you just push a button on the dash and up she rises.

Only if done properly on airbags, most just take an angry grinder to the the springs

I think I have dropped into another one of those sound like your dad topics.

What other type is there for men of a certain age.

 

[Chris S]

Possibly the most famous and certainly the most stupid was the 'Quartic,' steering wheel on the Allegro:
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Can you imagine the development meeting at BL when it was decided to put this into the new Allegro?

It would have just be regarded as another example of Gallic eccentricity if the French had done it.

 

[Chris S]

Tinted windows. Why?

They're still popular around here, including illegally tinted front windows and windscreens. It's only a matter of time before they kill someone.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It would have just be regarded as another example of Gallic eccentricity if the French had done it.

You mean like this?

Shame Citroen just turned into a Eurobox shifter they had some very innovative ideas over the years.

 

[Chris S]

Metros had hydro elastic band suspension, with grease ports...

Often 'lubricated' with Isopon to remove any play before the MOT.

 

[Chris S]

"My other car is a Porsche"

In the 80s I saw one of those on the back of a Rolls Royce.

 

[Chris S]

White lettering on tyres.

Schwalbe still do that

 

[Beebo]

The car bra!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-end_bra
I was is Canada in 1994 and almost every other car had one. Just weird.

 

[Cycleops]

You mean like this?

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Shame Citroen just turned into a Eurobox shifter they had some very innovative ideas over the years.

That’s a CX isn’t it? I had one those, impossible to drive fast.

 

[Drago]

In the 80s I saw one of those on the back of a Rolls Royce.

Years ago there was a very entertaining interview on local radio with a chap who'd crashed his Roller into a river. He sat there for a few minutes, submerged, the car barely leaking a drop while deciding what to do. The electrics still worked ao he would down the window, equaslised the pressure and swam out.

He was a really chirpy guy and it was a great interview. When asked whatnhe was going to do for a car he said "I've order a new Rolls, but at the moment i'm roughing it in the wife's merc S class."

 

[raleighnut]

Schwalbe still do that

I was referring more to the idiots with white pens colouring in the 'goodyear' logos on their tyres. When I was a callow youth our next door neighbour used to 'marshall' at the British grand prix, he'd take the wheels off his car and spend ages polishing each one and blacking the tyres before 'whitening' all the logos. Mind you he had a pretty rare car, one of these.

Any guesses as to what it was.