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tonyav | 20:13 Sat 20th Apr 2019 | ChatterBank
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Look how you could have blinged your motor up all those years ago.
I'd have had a Bowmonk Dynometer, a Baronet steering wheel glove ( in Ocelot ), a Silerstone 12 coat, a Motorway safety felt cap and a pair of Fownes Jack Brabham driving gloves.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/ownership/the-weird-weird-world-of-forgotten-car-accessories/ss-BBW4fZI?li=AAnZ9Ug
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Or even a Silverstone 12 coat.
I used to like those names in strips across the top of the windscreen. You don’t see them anymore. They always seemed to be Steve and Julie.
Feu Orange traffic light air freshener, death to any finish it spilled on.

Not exactly bling but there you go. :-)
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Oh yes I remember then, douglas. Very popular in the seventies.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e1/5a/1f/e15a1f7635c38e25f0fa89267aeed0d6.jpg
All my 80's cars had "go faster" stripes, they didnt work! Ha ha!
I had a VW polo where I put two different colour go faster stripes and then had 2 sets of hubcaps that I used to swap round to match
Bowden cable operated rear windscreen wiper gearbox on my 66 MGB GT
I recall some of them. My parents had the shelf thing that fitted to the door window. Only used when parked up though.
Ha ha I saw the felt cap, so funny, how could we be so dim. Do you remember the bullet holes for the windscreen.007 here I come.
Almost everyone had a steering wheel glove! It was supposed to be safer as it stopped the wheel slipping in your sweaty hands ! No A/C in those days . (or just 4x4 AC ,all 4 windows wide open )
Some of those prices seem horrendous!

For example, the fan in this ad
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBW41Z2.img?h=416&;w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&;o=f&l=f
is little more than a heavy duty version of what you can probably buy in Poundland (or similar) today for just a quid. However the price back then was a little under £6, which was my pay (at the age of 16, between 5th form and 6th form) back in 1969 for an entire week's factory work!
PS: Does anyone know if it's still possible to buy a motorway cap, 'incorporating the special No. 11 anti-shock felt'?

I'd surely be a lot safer driving if I was wearing one of those, wouldn't I?

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