# Obituraries in SUV Rear Windows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293 "2011-03-11T13:01:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/61 "2011-03-15T15:21:41Z")
> [@Hakuna\_Matata](#): > > My thought is what do you do when you sell the car? Do you leave it on there and let the new owner scrape your loved ones memory off? Or do you do it yourself? Either way seems fairly disrspectful to me. Sell a car? They don’t sell their car - they drive it into the ground, and repair it with duck tape. A ballsack hanging from a pickup trailer hitch is pretty tacky. But then I grew up with parents that never let us put any bumper stickers on the car. So I’m used to a different mindset. Fake fender vents - well I probably wouldn’t know they’re fake and not custom mods to make your duechemobile look cool. Last name plastered across the back window, typically in elaborate font, that screams tacky. Don’t think I’ve seen many eulogies or memorials, though. One guy does have a custom mod to his car, though, that even though functional looks like ass. He drives a Saturn sedan, which is actually fairly small for a 4 door, but has mounted a gigantic platform over the roof as what appears to be a luggage rack. It is welded to the car, slightly sloped up from the front, probably works like a giant spoiler. The platform is as wide as the car and almost as long, from just behind the front windshield to over the tail of the car. At first I thought it was a solar panel, but no, it’s just a luggage rack. Doofus didn’t even make it removeable. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/62 "2011-03-15T15:37:59Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > One guy does have a custom mod to his car, though, that even though functional looks like ass. He drives a Saturn sedan, which is actually fairly small for a 4 door, but has mounted a gigantic platform over the roof as what appears to be a luggage rack. It is welded to the car, slightly sloped up from the front, probably works like a giant spoiler. The platform is as wide as the car and almost as long, from just behind the front windshield to over the tail of the car. At first I thought it was a solar panel, but no, it’s just a luggage rack. Doofus didn’t even make it removeable. Probably the most solid thing on that vehicle, assuming it’s made of metal. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/63 "2011-03-15T15:39:08Z")
Metal frame, plywood platform. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/64 "2011-03-15T15:45:38Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > Good grief, we are overrun with those things here in WV. I’m waiting to see someone with their entire back window covered with “In Memory Of…” along with the Calvin peeing on something sticker and the NASCAR driver of their choice’s car #. Hmmm…I’m seeing an untapped market: stickers showing Calvin peeing on an inscription reading “In Loving Memory of #3 - The Intimidator - 1951-2001”. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/65 "2011-03-15T16:08:20Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Metal frame, plywood platform. Hmmm, wood…call it a draw, then. There’s barely any metal on that car, excepting the engine block of course. That’s why they’re so ding-resistant. For some really heinous mods, there’s a Cheezburger-like site of redneck car fixes that will blind you. _off to search_ ---
**Author:** ![TheseGoToEleven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@TheseGoToEleven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheseGoToEleven)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/66 "2011-03-15T17:33:00Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > Hmmm, wood…call it a draw, then. There’s barely any metal on that car, excepting the engine block of course. That’s why they’re so ding-resistant. For some really heinous mods, there’s a Cheezburger-like site of redneck car fixes that will blind you. _off to search_ It’s “That will buff out”: [http://cars.failblog.org/](http://cars.failblog.org/) ---
**Author:** ![TheseGoToEleven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@TheseGoToEleven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheseGoToEleven)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/67 "2011-03-15T17:51:17Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Fake fender vents - well I probably wouldn’t know they’re fake and not custom mods to make your duechemobile look cool. For the record, the fender vents on modern Buicks straight from the factory are mostly cosmetic/fake as well. I suppose back in the day some may have had some function (like maybe in the 1930’s, for factory-installed death-rays), but not lately. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/68 "2011-03-15T20:52:49Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > Idaho’s so behind the times they probably just got around to painting over the ‘OTA’ on the tailgate of their Toyota pickups. Hah…back in the day, the thing in vogue with Toyota tailgates was to paint over/remove the decals for the “TO” and the “TA” leaving “YO” centered in the middle of the tailgate. Seriously though, what’s the big attraction to putting tacky aftermarket crap on shit-tastic cars? I mean, I’ll see some 1989 Olds Cutlass tooling around, and it’ll have fender vents and wire wheels. Never mind that most of the paint has either rusted away or flaked off, or that it smokes while it runs. Or some beater 1980s or 1990s pickup with f-ed up plastic ground effects and running boards, fender vents, and usually some third crappy thing attached. It’s like these people don’t quite get that you’ll look more rich if your car simply doesn’t smoke or has good paint, than if it has every aftermarket decoration from AutoZone on it. (as well as usually a Virgin Mary surrounded by intertwined rose vines and blooms) ---
**Author:** ![Cincoflex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Cincoflex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cincoflex)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/69 "2011-03-15T20:56:58Z")
> [@bump](#): > > It’s like these people don’t quite get that you’ll look more rich if your car simply doesn’t smoke or has good paint, than if it has every aftermarket decoration from AutoZone on it. (as well as usually a Virgin Mary surrounded by intertwined rose vines and blooms) For some of these people, the decal is all they can afford, and at least one had told me that fixing it up is making it more of a target to be stolen. Gotta be a rough neighborhood if burning oil is a deterrent to crime! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/70 "2011-03-15T21:27:52Z")
I think there are two basic types: the socially clueless, adn the good sense of humour. The fake sunroof is for socially clueless trying to get laid. The eyelashes are just funny. (I mean, right? Bwaaahahaha!) Burning oil and fake vents? Either socially clueless or X-mass gift from beloved-but-clueless Grandma. . . ---
**Author:** ![TexasDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@TexasDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasDriver)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/71 "2011-03-20T14:34:16Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > amateurs. In my city somebody cemented a steel cross in the ground next to a bridge. The city came along the next day and cut it down. > > I’d like to add tattoos to the list of memorial canvases. Pro or con? As in are you for it or against it? ---
**Author:** ![JMLVT68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@JMLVT68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JMLVT68)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/72 "2011-03-23T19:45:08Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > Whenever I’m behind a vehicle with an obit rear window, I always feel like “Why are you telling me? WHY are you telling ME?!?!” …and I like your new philosophy. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/73 "2011-03-23T20:18:28Z")
It’s a portable mausoleum so they get a tax write off. The ashes are of course in the loved ones compartment formerly known as the glove compartment. Let’s all remember those two cool cars from the Munsters. [Munster Koach](http://www.munsterkoach.com/pictures.htm) and [DRAG-U-LA](http://www.munsterkoach.com/Dragula1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293/74 "2011-03-24T00:53:28Z")
You might be right **Harmonious Discord** , it would also seem quite sensible to have a tombstone-style inscription on the rear window if the deceased was actually buried in the trunk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obituraries-in-suv-rear-windows/574293.md?page=3)