From my first car 'till now, I never had mud flaps on any of them except for my '88 K1500 Chevy.

Some where in the skies there is a 757 with thrush muffler sticker on the engine, I wonder how it got there.

Products decals like "STP", and "ISKY" and those eyeballs...

Does anybody remember those old pipe organ speakers you mounted to the package tray in the back? We had the ones that looked that looked like tachometers in the 68 Barracuda.

remember playing chicken?drive towards each other on a dirt road and who ever swerved out of the way first to avoid a head on was the chicken?

I have a 76 antennae ball for each car, and a replacement just in case. Up until a few years ago you could still get them at some union stations.

Dingo balls in the lowriders, Fuzzy Dice, graduation tassels, & various items hanging from the rear view...

Jenson Coaxial Speakers, Krako, Blaupunkt, Pioneer Supertuner cassette decks, and 7 band equalizers or power boosters... House speaker in the back seat...

Spinner center caps on your Craiger SS wheels... Fat BFG Radial TA's if you could afford them requiring Air Shocks in the back...

K-40 CB antennae with a loud speaker under the hood... Aaoogha horns or Dukes of Hazzard horns...

Cherry Bomb - Thrush - or the least expensive Turbo mufflers... Chrome tips that had a set screw to hold them on...

Anodized valve covers and air cleaner lids, or all chrome...

Chrome Traction bars...

American Flag stickers, STP, any go fast part usually had stickers (Hooker, Headman, Holley, Offenhouser, Moon Eyes)

As Bjorn said the Chrome Headlight eyebrows, Door guard trim, pinstripe tape, raised white letters in the tires, tuck & Roll interior, or that shag carpet... to match that bright multi stripped 70's paint jobs...

I'd have to say, for the most part, still all just a throwback to the origin of hot rodding, old school. You do what you can do, and you do it with what you have to make it your own... in your own way. Pretty much what were all still doing one way or another...

Kool topic Robert.

Brett!

I was looking at my file of pictures that I have of my car throughout the years. I see one of those antenna balls on it on about a dozen of the pictures throughout the 70's. Some of them were the Union 76 orange and some were blue/green. I think the blue were a local Sinclair distributor called Village Pump.

That Colorado canyon shot in the '73 picture below has a ball on the antenna in the higher quality original file.


Here's a closeup of a camping picture in 1972:

Out here in So Ca we used to paint a name on the side of the cars
There were some good ones I thought, Mousetrap, Superfly,The Revren, Stargazer, and Mouse Factory.
And the Just Passing Through stickers with the guy with the big foot hands in his pockets
Glass packs burned out

what about Rat FInk stickers?

Handcuffs & bandannas on the rear view. Crager SS or Keystone rims with 50 or 60 series tires on the back & 70's on the front. On my "Bud Car" (75 Firebird) I painted the entire trunk lid a 40 oz. Budweiser label, "BAD" in scroll type letters on the back bumper, & a big white pot leaf on the diff. cover, which was painted black, the air shocks pumped way up so it was visible with the blue running lights turned on at night. Not so hard to figure out why I got pulled over all the time...

you all too young to remember these all over your firebirds?

I was born in 68 so some of these things I remember as a kid others I remember my Brothers doing etc. Kinda funny to read about this stuff.

Is the art of R. Crumb what you’re thinkin'? He’s the artist who drew Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural.



The caption I'm familiar with is Keep on Truckin'. I still have my Keep on Truckin’ poster I bought in the early ‘70’s.

What about louvers, even though I have never seen a FGF in person with them.

nope, not me...

Those were probably Warshawsky/JC Whitney specials. I remember going through the Warshawsky catalogs back then and looking at all that stuff.

And I recall a paisley Vette running around Chicago.

I remember my brothers always having a pile of worn out "cheater slicks" laying around the side of the garage and a soon to be worn out set on their cars. Also, cars always had the pine tree shaped air fresheners hanging from the r/v mirror.

Sounds like this fits in right here...
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A friend of mine just sent this link. Pretty cool for us old buggers! LOL...and I got my car back this afternoon, will be cruising to Shiner ,Tx tomorrow!

http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

we all know that you were probably too old to remember those bjorn...lol

oh no, I remember those....lol
those were usually on hippie VW microbuses...

The original Luv Bug

I once had a 25 year old blonde in a miniskirt in my Firebird.
That may not count as a novelty to many of you, but for all intents and purposes, it does to me now.

Ah, but how old were you at the time is what counts!

Rub it in Bjorn. I may have to visit the Columbus Brewing Co. or Gordon Biersch (local brew hauses) after the T/A Nats.

When I was a kid, I collected ODD ROD and ODDER ODD ROD stickers-
http://www.oddrods.com/cards.html This was as close as I could come to owning a hot rod back them. I still have everyone that I bought in mint condition--a stack about 2 inches high. But I don't have the Firebird sticker. I took a nickel to the YMCA after school to buy some stickers in their machine.

My Firebird actually had mud flaps and the chorome exhaust tips when I got it in January 2006. I have them off now.

I have enjoyed reading this.

Does anybody remember the original Mag wheels that came out after the chrome reverse wheels? The gas stations hated them and it was hard to find somebody to fix your flat. They did not want to put that magnesium on their tire machine. They weren't the greatest looking wheels in the world but back then they were different.

I have a set of chrome smoothies on a car right now. They'll be coming off...

Between that and the jacked up rear, it's definitely 80s.

...with feathers... and some ppl had a little scale hanging from the mirror...must represent justice???lol

Around Maryland we used to paint the grills and rocker panels black. and the diff white...go figure.


good stuff, thanks for the memories.