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Old 21-05-2009, 02:58 PM   #1
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i sent a reply to the chev badge post but i couldnt resist one for the 'other' fads...please forgive me but i recon you may like it?

Would you consider anything you did to your car/s as a fad? This is a list of some from 70’s to now.

Fox tails on aerials
CB Radios
Diffs painted orange
Huge fibreglass aerials
Moon disks
Dragway rims
Jacked up backends only
Lowered front ends only
Milo tins (one guy actually had a real Milo tin with the Milo label still on it!)
Fluffy dice hanging on mirrors
How many ford guys put the HO rear spoiler on many lower model falcons in 70’s?
What about the front XU1 chrome spoiler that every LC and LJ seemed to have?
How many put stateman front ends on base kingswoods/monaros in 70’s & 80’s?

Im sure theres more out there…

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Old 21-05-2009, 03:03 PM   #2
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XR Front Ends on XF, EA, EB, ED, EF, EL, AU, II, III, BA, BAII, BF, BFII
12 Slotters on anything that they fit (saw them on an Mitsubishi Express van this afternoon)
Altezza Lights
Stripes (IMO)
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:12 PM   #3
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Bonnets sitting up higher at the back.
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:20 PM   #4
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5 spoke alloys.
20" 22" chromies.
Monster rear wings.
No rear wings. (I like this one)
Mini trucks
BOV's were a fad in the beginning, more know for the noise they make! I bet 80% of import buyers still don't know what they do!
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:09 PM   #5
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VR Acclaim hubcaps on earlier model tarted up Commodores (may have been only a WA thing)

Hornet scoops

Car phone antennas on the rear window (with no car phone fitted to the car)
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:14 PM   #6
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VR Acclaim hubcaps on earlier model tarted up Commodores (may have been only a WA thing)
Nope, that was everywhere.
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:26 PM   #7
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Car phone antennas on the rear window (with no car phone fitted to the car)
Mine was fitted to the car when I bought it. It isn't going anywhere.

Huge Deep Dish Rims on 4x4 Wagons (some call them SUVs).

Frangipani Stickers. Yuck.
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:37 PM   #8
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Glass pop up sunroofs,
slr flares and scoops,
musical air horns,
From the rice set doof doof and undercar neons. Apexi,NOS,Gredy stickers on the front guards and the old fav. fart cannon with black bonnet wtf
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Old 21-05-2009, 04:47 PM   #9
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Glass pop up sunroofs,
slr flares and scoops,
musical air horns,
I've got a glass pop up sunroof, prob some kind of 80's upgrade before I got my F truck & I want musical air horns.

Don't forget current/recent trends

fluffy toy tied up under the rear bumper
cheap spot lights fitted under the front bar by every doof doof wanne be that have to be used all the time
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Old 21-05-2009, 04:51 PM   #10
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:48 PM   #11
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Mine was fitted to the car when I bought it. It isn't going anywhere.
Yeah but you're not driving around in 1995 in a lowered VL Exec with VR Acclaim hubcaps.

I've thought of another one: 'No Fear' stickers either on the windscreen or rear window.
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:11 PM   #12
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Altezza lights.......never liked them , never will

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Old 21-05-2009, 05:24 PM   #13
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I'm with you there. I don't understand the fascination. They're UGLY.
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Old 21-05-2009, 05:33 PM   #14
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I'm with you there. I don't understand the fascination. They're UGLY.
Me either, they make a car look cheap, and in some cases even half assed!

Actually they look that way in all cases!!
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your foggetting the most popular of all, tennis ball over the tow-bar!
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:13 PM   #16
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Old 21-05-2009, 06:06 PM   #17
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I saw an Oakley sticker in traffic a little while back ...it read.

Gee I wish I had an Oakley sticker, like all the other Wxxkers !

Got a belly laugh out of me on the way to work....

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Old 21-05-2009, 03:16 PM   #20
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and of course the white letters on the tyres
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:17 PM   #21
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Sheepskins..Just about every car had a set. They were popular when I was growing up....Eck!

And fluffy dice arent a fad...There still cool...
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:19 PM   #22
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"HOLLEY equipped " stickers on the rear passenger door quarter windows.

I'm pretty sure every XY that I saw as a kid had one of these.
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:20 PM   #23
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and of course the white letters on the tyres
Hold up, it looks quite tough on some wide tyres bolted to a 70's muscle coupe.
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Old 21-05-2009, 03:21 PM   #25
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'Tickford Enhanced' stickers
Painted brake calipers
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No Fear stickers

And what were those other ones - Bad stickers or something??

Very Chav.
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And what were those other ones - Bad stickers or something??

Very Chav.
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