there is a slight possibility of participation here, simply find an archaic or interesting motoring word or phrase to add to the list. Some suggestions to get it started. There are many more, have a read through this Honest John thread which makes a few more suggestions https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post ... tm?t=78173
Pull up/Pull over
Yes an old Coaching term for bringing a carriage to a halt by pulling on the reins.
Decapotable
More an interesting name, but maybe stretches back to horse-drawn open carriages. I translate it probably inappropriately as head take offable
Dashboard
Still used but not there to stop muck and dust being kicked up by the wheels and the horses hooves,
Reminded me of the M6 patrol car crew who saw a little old lady driving her Morris 1000 in the slow lane while knitting!! They pulled alongside and yelled "Pull over"!!!!
"Go faster stripes" !!!!!!
Flippin heck there is a blast from the past, not heard that phrase since the 70/80,s when every one use to decorate their cars with pinstripes from the likes of Motor World and other car accessory outlets, we had a brilliant one called Deganwy Motorist shop, strangely in Deganwy of all places.
You had a very small walkway around the shop as it was that stacked full of gear from service parts to spot lamp, alarms and of course many Colours and widths of PIN STRIPE, it looked like chaos in there but the guys behind the counter could point you right to spot you need to go to find what you want, back in the 70's everyone local into cars knew this shop.
Aladdin's cave always sprung to mind.
You could even buy the green or brown sun strips for the top of your windscreen and have yours and your current girlfriends name on them how 70's cool was that! my mate bought a blank green one and stuck to the outside of the screen as he thought that's were it went, I mean you have got a mirror inside, it blew off, how NOT cool was that. We still haven't let him forget that 50 odd years later, why would you !
ChrisRobin wrote: 01 Aug 2024, 09:24
You could even buy the green or brown sun strips for the top of your windscreen and have yours and your current girlfriends name on them how 70's cool was that!
I used to get a lift home from work with a girl who drove a mini van.
One evening a car came towards us and she cracked up laughing, the oncoming car had such a sun strip with the names 'Dick' and 'Fanny'.
I doubt that it was the Craddocks looking for recipes.
Amused her for days as she was married to a Richard. She couldn't use her Christian name with the same effect.
A tartan travel rug, in my early years of motoring we always had one rolled up in the boot but never used it ever, as well as 2 cushions on the rear seats. I never knew why you just did it.
Oh and not forgetting swapping your wing aerial or should I say the "coat hanger" we all ended up using at some stage usually because you lost the silly little aerial key so had to leave it up and some clown has now bent it, but with the hanger you seemed to get a lot better signal oddly, for the obligatory "electric" one which went up and down with your radio on/off, there's posh!
Need to stop reminiscing and get back onto word of the day.
so how's about we got back to the 1970's, and say........ What's your 20! (CB speak for where are you)
There were loads of these phrases around the late 1970's courtesy of Kris Kristofferson and Convoy and boy did we love using them over the air.
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