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    Back When Automotive Interior Designers Weren't So Slick: SECU- RITY Indicator Lamp

    Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!

    1969 Mercury Marauder X-100, 1968 Chrysler 300 Go To Crusher Side By Side

    Cash For Clunkers Vehicles Still Crowding Junkyards

    One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup

    Adios, Amigos: Pick Your Part's Octopus Shuts NorCal Wrecking Yards

    Corvair-Powered Fiberfab Valkyrie GT-15 Prepares To Take Leave Of This World

    Speaking Of Crusher-Bound 80s Two-Seaters, How About This Nissan Pulsar NX?

    I'm Not An EXP, Says Doomed Mercury LN7 To The Crusher

    Clunkerized Mercedes-Benzes Clog Up Junkyards, Ghost Of Karl Benz To Haunt White House
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    02:28 PM

    In reply to Back When Automotive Interior Designers Weren't So Slick: SECU- RITY Indicator Lamp
    I love it. Just look at that fake dashboard stitching! The 1980s were truly a great decade for automotive design; inside or out. #1980s
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    02:09 PM

    In reply to Back When Automotive Interior Designers Weren't So Slick: SECU- RITY Indicator Lamp
    I liked these boxy Maximas - particularly the '87 and '88 models with the raked-back nose. Had I been able to afford a Maxima in the day, I would have happily bought one to supplement my CRX. Notice the dash - a full complement of six needle gauges. Somehow, Maximas became less special and appealing after 1994 - seems that the sportiness was being slowly bled away. #1980s
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    02:08 PM

    In reply to Back When Automotive Interior Designers Weren't So Slick: SECU- RITY Indicator Lamp
    That's not an '87 Maxima dash--that's the startup screen for Windows 7! #1980s
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    Image of bzr bzr
    01:18 PM

    In reply to Back When Automotive Interior Designers Weren't So Slick: SECU- RITY Indicator Lamp

    And they had the good sense to set the typeface in Eurostile, I believe. Many Japanese companies love that font; Honda is obsessed with it. Take a look at the Engine Start button on the S2k, for example.

    Yeah, I'm a font nerd. #1980s
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    01:48 PM

    @bzr: Kindred spirits, we are. Did you ever notice that the gauges on the '92-'96 Camry use the same typeface as the displays in the later original-crew Star Trek movies?

    ...Yeah. #nerdalert
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    01:05 PM

    In reply to Back When Automotive Interior Designers Weren't So Slick: SECU- RITY Indicator Lamp
    I would like to see a collection of weird and hard-to-interpret dash buttons and pictograms please. #1980s
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    Image of skitter skitter
    01:13 PM

    @Maxichamp: My employer wants to go to text free industrial warning labels. They think a picture of bleeding fingers is just as effective as "Caution: Spinning Blades Below." Never mind the guy going "F*** me, those spin? Good thing you told me." #1980s
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    Image of Amber Jonson Amber Jonson
    10/27/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    That's too cool... I want one. Are you taking order?? ;-) #halloween
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    10/27/09

    @Amber Jonson: Everything is for sale! #halloween
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    10/27/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    I'll be impressed when the eyes signal direction sequentially. Just kidding, I am already impressed. #halloween
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    10/27/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    Monday Murilee? AWESOME! It's been such a yawn around here lately that I didn't even notice this until one of my FB friends pointed it out. Great project, BTW. One of these days I'll get around to making a Wanky The Safety Cat® for my Rambler. I fear this one is a bit beyond my abilities. #halloween
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    Impressive. #halloween
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    Image of Kitt Kitt
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    Wow, cool! Just in time for Halloween. Someone should Digg this. #halloween
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    Murilee Mondays - Halloween Edition. Life can't get too much better!

    "Screaming Skulls 2+ 2,
    You'll come down in Kathmandu.
    Black is Black and Fu Man Chu,
    Screaming Skulls come out of the blue." #halloween
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    Image of TurboBrick [LIGIER] TurboBrick [LIGIER]
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    Thanks, ma'am! I was having one of those "sh*t-is-just-not-working-right" kind of days so far, now everything is looking up again.

    I guess you could bring these out again around Christmas time, give one of them a beard & santa hat, reindeer horns and illuminated nose for the other one. #halloween
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    Do they activate with the turn signals too? You could make the eyes sequential with the actual turn signal.

    Or have them rotate in the direction that you are signaling. #halloween
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    Image of bzr bzr
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    This is, in the words of a great man, absolutely epic.

    I'd imagine it would be a great way to ward off tailgaters. If I were to do this, I would fantasize about rigging a switch that would rapidly shoot the skulls straight up from under the trunk, perfect to really give those bastard 'gaters a heart attack. Yeah, who's gonna be three inches off my bumper NOW, bitch?! #halloween
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Animatronic Screaming Skull Brake Lights With Junkyard Parts!
    Do you go out trick n treating in this car? #halloween
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    10/26/09


    @FTGDWolverineEdition'09: No, I roll in my Texas Limo! #halloween
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    10/26/09

    @Murilee Martin: If that was a K-car limo, you'd be my hero forever. #halloween
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    Image of bzr bzr
    10/26/09

    @Murilee Martin: Sweet, Lemmy looks younger than ever! #halloween
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    10/26/09

    @LTDScott: Fleetwood! #halloween
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    10/26/09

    @Murilee Martin: Sweet. Like I always said who needs Halloween characters when you have LeMons Jalops? #halloween
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    10/26/09


    @Murilee Martin: I realize that. I'm saying the only way it could be cooler is if it was a K-car limo. #halloween
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    10/27/09

    @LTDScott: That is so cool. I hope the presidential seal on the door says "International President of the World" #halloween
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    10/27/09

    @LTDScott: OK, granted, Nixon's K Car limo would be much cooler.

    But not as cool as Stalin's '38 Packard limo. #halloween
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    Image of Old Grimey Old Grimey
    10/27/09

    @Murilee Martin: Nixon's K-car limo? There weren't any K-cars around when Nixon was in the Oval Office. Surely you mean Reagan. #halloween
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/27/09

    @Old Grimey: Vacuum-Operated Nixon's K-Car limo. #halloween
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    10/27/09

    @Old Grimey: Nixon had a K-car limo after he retired. #halloween
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    Image of Old Grimey Old Grimey
    10/27/09

    @Murilee Martin: I didn't know that. Thanks for telling me! :-) #halloween
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