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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by RyanR
Back in the day, tons of those pine tree air fresheners hung from peoples mirrors. Pretty rare to seen them now.
Not attached to the car but somewhat related is JC Whitney catalogs. Always got them in the mail and browsed through them.
One item I don't miss is truck tonneau covers with snaps. Dang things never worked in the winter.
I have one on my Ranger, but I never use the snaps because it has an aluminum frame and hinges, so it simply lifts open.
All of those other products are still available not only online but at auto parts stores and the auto section of places like Target and Walmart. Someone must be buying the air fresheners, there are huge displays of them at the places I mentioned and even some convenience stores sell them. While they still sell aftermarket cool gear shift knobs, manual transmissions are rare, and not even available on most cars, though I still have one. In a drawer I still have a walnut knob from a 1967 Cortina that I totaled in 1971
as a souvenir/keepsake.
There are a couple of categories here. Perhaps the bigger category is items that are not on the secondary market because they have become either mandatory or standard, like cup holders or aftermarket headrests.
The second one is things that have just gone out of fashion, and mostly a good thing in my view. Curb feelers, fuzzy dice, those ugly crown air fresheners, the quilted pillows for the rear deck, those decals showing the favored sexual position based on astrological sign. Even Truck Nutz seem pretty rare nowadays.
Now, if we could just get rid of the named woman mudflaps, the pissing Calvin, and the stick figure families we'd be making real progress.
How about those flaps you put on your wiper blades to help with pressure? Not a bad idea actually. I remember I had them but I don’t remember if they actually worked. Deer whistles? Always thought they were a scam.
Those cup holder and tray things you used to put on the center tunnel, in front of your bench seat. (Or the ones that clipped to the door)
I was browsing a thrift store one day out of boredom, and I saw two of those things on the shelf. I was like "WHOA, haven't seen one of those in YEARS!".
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