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Friday August 18, 2006

Odd things inside and on cars

It should be of no surprise to me the odd decorations people put on or inside their cars ( but I am..). Here are some I have seen.

The extra bodywork people bolt on their cars to enlarge the wheel arches, and round the front and rear bumpers. Fantastically wide wheels, as if the standard ones were clearly not wide enough for safety reasons..

Odd stencil details like flames around the wheel arches etc

Registration plates, which mimic people names/ their trades or related to the car itself eg BMW1 etc. A whole weblog could be written on these alone...

The no badge option you get on BMW and Audi cars - where the badge with the model/size of the engine is not fixed on the bodywork. Amazingly neither manufacturer charges for not putting the badge on.

Odd badges on the front/rear of cars proclaiming membership of an organisation - one dubious one would be the Caravan club.

Silly signs on the rear window like "my other car is a Ferrari".

Large fluffy dice hanging from the rear view mirror on the windscreen.

England flags when the team is playing in a tournament which fall off very quickly and are left littering up the road. Even odder is having those flags still on your car months after the event has finished.

The bad taste plastic fingers that give the impression of them being trapped inside a car boot etc.

The nodding dogs on the back parcel shelf now revived with the insurance company Churchill.

Pictures or words on the rear tyre case on the back of 4X4s. Like "another piggin 4X4"..., or pictures of dogs, cats or Indians etc..

( Aug 18 2006, 12:00:01 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]

Comments:

How could you forget the custom air intake holes on bonnets, blue LEDs where the windscreen water jets are, and the crazy super-size custom exhausts?

Posted by Lewis on August 18, 2006 at 12:53 PM PDT #

horror of horrors! I had managed to forget them but you have brought them back to life!! Thank you

Posted by Paul Humphreys on August 20, 2006 at 09:49 AM PDT #