Remember that little plastic dog that you put in the back window and it’s head bobbed up and down up and down as you drove along? That get’s my vote.
Those cheap plastic compasses that rotated in a clear globe of fluid (what WAS that stuff?).
Fuzzy dice.
Those things that allow you to attach your laptop onto your steering wheel.
The moronic hanging air fresheners.
Condoms.
They just ain’t comfortable.
cigarette lighter
Anything made to hang from the rear view miror.
Airconditioning in a convertible.
The old under the dashboard 45 RPM record players (they make 8-tracks look good).
A car design where you have to open the driver’s door in order to pop the boot or open the fuel tank lid thingy!
You have to be Dutch to understand this one, probably: home-knitted toilet roll holders, often cleverly disguised as a top hat. Pshaw, right, like we don’t know what’s in there. Mostly seen on the hat board of a 1985 Opel Kadett sedan 1.3, driven by an elderly couple.
Coldie I owned an Opel in 1973 or 4 somewhere along there. It had manual popup head lights. Made by pontiac maybe? Or at least distributed by pontiac.
I didn’t put one of those cardboard hands that waved back and forth on the dash.
My best guess is that you drove an Opel GT, aha. About the only original thing these people ever made. Pontiac is GM, just like Opel, so that would make sense.
Absolutely correct coldie! It was a GT. I think it was the only year they made it. Whatever year it was that I owned it that is. Too bad I didn’t have a no fear sticker to put on it!
1970 through 1973, say my sources. Of course, it being a Euro model, availability in the US may have been more limited.
I drove one once, my cousin had one for a while. Great fun in the wet, really playful!
(Lighted) neon gearshift knobs.
You can buy a fake car phone, complete with fake antenna.
Also those little electonic noise makers. Press one button, sound effect of machine gun. Press another, grenade launcher and explosion.
My vote:
Angle of bank and climb instruments. Ummm hello!! These things are subject to centrifugal force which makes them essentially useless unless you are in stable driving conditions , ie not accelerationg, not turning, not riding over bumps etc. Not that good in the 4WDs they are normally fitted to.
Why do Dutch people keep toilet paper in their cars?