Nostalgia

>>16282929
I do but what was the purpose of them?

i've never seen a car with anti static straps in person before

its all just a meme

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>>16282929
remember these fuckers

>>16282958
Lead static charges from the car body and chassis into the ground because the rubber tires wouldn't. Or at least that was the intention. No clue if it actually worked or if the problem was relevant to begin with.

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>convex mirrors are still illegal on cars in the US

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>>16282929

OH SHIT.

I've seen them almost daily in Europe back in the 90's and always wondered why people do this.
Around here those straps were usually better hidden tho.

I kinda saw those people in the same light like those who slapped horse shoes on the car front/grill.

Indeed, I nostalgia'd hard.

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dun
dun

dunnnnnnnnnnnn

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this sticker, on the hood or on the rear.

>>16282987
what? I see them all the time

>>16283000
Whats wrong with horseshoes faggot.
Did uncle badtouch drive a w123 or something?

>>16283782
>unironically having horse shoes on your grill

time for bed, granpa

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>>16283793
It's a cool lucky charm, you enormous faggot.

>>16283011
>bullethole sticker
>not a golfball lodged in a windshield sticker
Shit taste detected.

>>16283793
Your car will die in its sleep if you don't have horseshoe on the grille.

How else do you think old Mercedes live so long.

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>>16283011

>>16282987
Almost Every car come with convex passenger side mirrors from the factory.
That's what the "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" sticker is for.
And trucks come with flat, and convex mirrors on both sides.

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>>16283011
I remember my Dad had some of these on his car.

>>16282929
Quite a few people still have these in Australia. Unsure if it's snake oil or not, I don't get shocked by my car at all, but get a little zap from a lot of newer cars.

Were these reindeer things popular in other countries as well? I remember seeing these on just about every third car when I was a kid.

>>16282929
Back when car handles were metal, sonetimes you would get an electric shock when you tried to open the door.

This happened due to static buildup
because the car is insulated by the tires.

Sometimes people would even have heart attacks and die from it.

My neighbors car caught fire when I was a kid.
It was during the night. There was heavy winds kicking up many sands and somehow the car body built up an electric charge after being hit by the dust.
Then it made a short which caused the straw and pine needle padding inside the seat to caught fire.

>>16283893
that would explain why mostly old peeps had these on their cars

>>16283872
I actually see a huge increase in reindeer attachments over the past couple years.

Never saw these in the 90's.

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>>16283893
>Sometimes people would even have heart attacks and die from it.

bullshit. post a link with evidence of this happening. i've never seen this shit in the US before. must be some shit for superstitious gypsies

>>16283004
HOLY SHIT

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>>16283011
>see a truck with these all over the tailgate in parking lot
>get closer
>they aren't stickers
>mfw some dude actually shot up his tailgate

>>16283919
They're just so cringy and awful.

Although I'm really tempted to go and buy some and put them on my car ironically.

>>16283859
uhh no, it's because how distance and mirrors work

if you stand two feet in front of a mirror, your reflection will appear as if you're standing four feet away from yourself

and the same with the passenger mirror, since you're sitting like 4 feet away from it then objects in the mirror will appear to be 4 feet farther away than they actually are

>>16284046
>>16283859
rekt

>>16283872
I see them frequently enough. The other one (that's cringier IMO) is the eyelashes on Beetles/other small economy cars like Fits and the like. Even though it's mostly women, it's just too ridiculous to me.

>>16284043
>>16284126

Like googly eyes on a Miata is any better... Don't lie, you've considered it before.

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>>16282929
Anyone remember when these were the rage?

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>>16283939
>It only exists if HE's heard of it before.

Everybody bow down to the all-knowing, all-wise anon!

>>16282929
I have a friend who works for the transit authority steal me a few of them grounding strips that city buses usually have.

They look dope on my car

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Before there were internet memes, who decided that certain memes of the time were popular?

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>>16284682

>>16284731
Media of course.
And selling numbers.

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>>16284731
so many memories...

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>>16282929
I'm so happy I don't see these anymore. Irritating.

>>16284452
>>16283872
>>16283011
>>16284682
>>16284755
I still see all of these

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>>16284755
god damn these are cringe. idgaf about what constitutes your family unit shitcunt.

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>>16284755
They need to make cuck ones with the wife's son.

>>16285296

I'm not even joking, I really believe stickers like that will definitely appear in the coming years.

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And with the advances in technology we will never see them come back

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>>16282987

most new fords come with a convex mirror built into the mirror

>>16285414
nice

>>16283939
This is why you can't trust anything boomers say, or in general when you someone says "back then", time to stop listening.

goes like this

>two unrelated things happen
>40 years pass
>shit boomer wants attention
>DID U KNOW? U COULD *DIE*! I SAW IT HAPPEN ONCE!

The sad part is I'm sure they actually do "remember" it that way

>>16285383
Is this a Subaru loyale?

>>16285623
>not pissing on a Ford/Chevy/Dodge logo
>not pissing on a foreign company logo
Way more common.

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>>16282929
I do

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you guys forgot the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS.

>wackeldackel (that nodding dog)
>knitted toilet paper cover

>>16282979
static charges on a fucking metal frame?

>>16287431
Or lightning strikes, I don't fucking know.

>>16282987
That doesn't sound right. My dad's 2015 chevy silverado came with convex mirrors from the factory on the drivers side. It's not an add on either as it's built into the mirror.

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>>16284682
>tfw they think someone gives a shit about their spawn

>>16287622
Maybe they changed it recently and I read outdated information, but it was illegal for the longest time because legislators thought it would cause drivers even more trouble at judging distances in the mirror because Americans generally are morons.

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>>16287403
>Try leaning back the seat
>Ass has the bottom firmly planted
>Strings break
>Beads go fucking everywhere
>mfw
I remember these shitty things. From the outside it looked like a marshmellowy IED just went off in my car. I would find them after a year still.

>>16282929
At first I thought you're asking if I remember Ladas.

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>>16284755
>The zombie family ones
>Cosplay families
>T-Rex "I'm eating your stick family" stickers

>>16282974

Still see those

>>16283007

Oh shit, I remember there being other colors of those as well.

>>16284731

Marketing

>>16288800
check em

>>16283893

What kind of a car uses straw as seat padding?

russian here so yea that does make me nostalgic

>>16284221
I usually saw baseballs. They always seemed stupid to me

>>16287403
shit my dad used to have that

>>16287403
heard these are comfy af

>>16288107
I still do that

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>>16282929
Remember these?

>>16292973
I still see them and honestly think they are retarded.

>>16284682
I've heard that these are actually for first responders so they know to look for a child after a crash.

>>16285383
Hey, my grandparents had own of those. What are they even for?

>>16290602
Superior Soviet engineering is my guess

>>16288107
The point is to let other drivers know why you're driving so slow.

>>16293397
Promotional item from a gas station, wish places still gave things out like that

>>16282958
I though it was to help people deal with car sickness by removing static air caused by the friction of the road

>>16285414
Damn that's nice looking too

>>16293434
>speed limit 35
>crash at 30mph
>baby dies
>crash at 35mph
>baby dies
>crash at 40mph
>baby dies

>>16293434
>be high as a kite
>can't read

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>>16282929
>rage!

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>>16288117
My 2001 b3000 has these from factory too.

>>16282929
I saw one of these today

boost

>>16287431

Well, yes. Static charge builds on cars insulated by the tyres, planes insulated by the air and you as you bounce on the trampoline insulated by the mat and the air. When grounded the static charge discharges.

Those straps were originally designed to discharge static from the body before refuelling operations. There are documented and somewhat common incidents where the pump nozzle becomes the ground and a small spark arcs between the fuel filler and the pump nozzle. Somehow that turned into these straps preventing motion sickness, curing aids, secretly knowing the location of Harold Holt etc.

>>16284452
What is this, feelers for the car to navigate?

>>16282929

>da, davno vse eto bilo, kogda tolko eti huyni i stavili na mashini

>>16297802
Russians are too retarded to touch the car, grounding yourself BEFORE you put the fire fire dick into the fuel fuel vagina on the car.

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>>16284731
Marketing maybe. I used to see Nike, Adidas, Maui & Sons and other clothing brands stickers on buses when I was a kid. They all added respect, swag and extra hp. Said buses also had those straps in OP's picture.

>>16298487
Curb feelers to not scratch your rimz dawg.

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>>16300999
Also, I miss big antennas on hot hatches.

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>>16301012

Yeah, also, there was a time where it was common to see cars with THREE fucking antennas on them.

>radio
>CB radio
>car mobile phone

also CB radio really fascinated me back then.

>>16290600
Nice dubs

>>16301032

I always assumed cars with multiple antennas (especially long ones) were police.

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>>16301044

oh damn

>>16301032
>tfw there's an old guy in my town that drives a perfectly clean '86 CRX
>probably bought it brand new when he was younger
>has a huge-ass CB antenna on it

No joke that's one of my favorite cars to see. There's something kind of A E S T H E T I C about CB antennas that works perfectly with 80s cars

>>16282987
What are they even for?

>>16283893
>Back when car handles were metal, sonetimes you would get an electric shock when you tried to open the door.
>This happened due to static buildup
>because the car is insulated by the tires.
No, you fucking idiot, this happened because of static buildup on YOU not the car and you got shocked because the car was at a lower potential

>>16293393
Yeah because first responders need a reminder to make sure nobody else is in the car

>>16302001

I had a friend get ejected from a car and into the woods. None of the first responders had a clue there was a fourth person involved in the crash until friends in another car showed up and asked where she was.

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>>16282929
Member 9/11?

>>16302040
Did she died?

>>16302079

Only one that lived.

>>16292973
Still see these, he's usually wearing a football shirt and pissing on the shirt of a rival team.

>>16302040
A baby on board sign wouldn't prevent a scenario like that. If a car goes end-over-end and flings the occupants out the baby on board sign isn't going to be there shouting HEY THE BABY GOT FLUNG OUT M8

>>16302082
That's effed up.

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>>16282929

>>16287424
>knitted toilet paper cover
Only ever saw these in Germany.
And they never left.

>>16282987
Convex mirrors are fucking putrid and you should kill yourself for thinking they're anything else.

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>>16285383
in burgerland ur supposed to have burgerball

>>16302180

Whats the deal with that? Does it keep the tp warm?

>>16302330

I see this one almost every day.

Monster stickers are thankfully dying out.

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>>16282929
Here, have a quadruple whammy of nostalgic Soviet car accessories

>>16302073

Yeah I member.

>>16283893
My old Infiniti g20 would shock the living shit out of me and my passenger upon egress on cold days.


When I went to auto stores to ask for anti static devices, the looked at me like I was an idiot and told me that they didn't exist and I should touch the tire before getting out.


Fucking retards.

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>>16304221

dont 4 get

>>16284746
I have one of these in my window. Why were they ever a thing?

>>16283859

>Almost Every car come with convex passenger side mirrors from the factory.

Maybe in the states but most other places in the world don't even bother with them.

I have driven imported american cars and you immediately realize something is different about the mirrors.

>>16285552

>The sad part is I'm sure they actually do "remember" it that way

My fucking grandmother makes shit up about current events on the regular.

Apparently some kid on the beach got buried and no one could find him so she believes that if you dig a hole and half bury a child in it they can get sucked under the sand by the "under tow".

Some neighbors father dropped dead jogging recently (it was later noted that he had a stroke) and she has been trying to tell us that there is an epidemic of people just dying off and she knows it is "because of the rains".

>>16293434

I have borrowed cars with baby on board signs and had been ripping skids and driving like a lunatic in them.

>>16284682
Asshole at the wheel

>>16288117
My truck was made in the early 80s and it has them. Maybe you're just a lying retard.