What's this all about ?!?

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What's this all about ?!?

Post by Moab31 »

Don't know if I'm just getting old ! But what the hell are people driving round with McDonalds toys hanging from their back bumpers ?? I've seen smurfs etc hanging put really have no clue why!

Anyone else have an idea as to what its about ? Lol
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its clearly a yoooooooooof thing totally pointless and chav like
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Post by ZephyR »

I can remember many years ago when some people drove round with a tiger's tail hanging out of their petrol tank.
It was part of a advertising campaign by Esso (I think). The catch phrase being "Put a tiger in your tank".
Some years later there were those plastic fingers you stuck on the bottom of your boot lid to make it look like someone was trapped inside the boot.
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Post by Whinters »

As far as I'm aware it's something that was originally popular in Japan where they used to hang toys off the back of the car so people could see the horizontal GForce when power sliding...

Not likely to see that happening with chavved up 1.2 Corsas down at McDonalds though ;)
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This annoy me beyond belief, usually on the back of a corsa!
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Does anyone else recall the bullet hole transfers you put on your windows?

Here's the clincher - was it Texaco or Shell giving them out?
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Post by James321 »

I sure do, also remember my old mans transit van having a dashboard full of smurfs when they were given out free with National Petrol, think that was 1978 !!?
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