I really don't care for the fuzzy dice thing, but now that i know the background of them, i understand it better. in the 80's we'd hang our girlfriends garter from prom night off the rearview mirror. sorta the same thing i guess, but having your girlfriend make the dice back then means alot more than just hanging some store bought thing from your mirror. today, i have a bob falfa style skull hanging off my rearview mirror.
There's nothing more traditional than doing right by your mom. I'm sure you've embarrassesd her plenty growing up, the least you could do is not break her heart when she shows an interest in what excites you. Go be a good boy!
I had a pair of those from Grandma. I remember them being slicker then snot and having fun sliding across the hardwood floor "surfing"
I didnt build my car for you. I built my car for me. When I was a kid, fuzzy dice were in. My car still has fuzzy dice. If you think they are tacky, and want to laugh at them, I'm happy you can laugh. I like them and they will stay.
so THAT'S why you sounded funny when you called last night and told me about the dice...phone battery dying and such, whatever you gonna call your mom today?
Mid fiftys in High School Girls knit dice for their boyfriends car. It was like beating a quarter or fifty cent piece into a ring. Something done not bought. If you bought fome rubber dice you might as well paint a big L on your forhead.
Not to make you feel bad, but.... I would love to have a set made by my mom. That would mean she was still around to make them for me. I lost her this January to breast cancer, and now I treasure anything that reminds me of her, whether she made it or not. Tell your mom that you have reconsidered, and would love to have a set. Do it now while you still have her around to do it. Then you will have something to brag about later in life. And while she's at it, I'd love a set in red/white/black. Tell her to use her imagination!
Quote "I think if she would have knitted me a set of fuzzy dice they would have looked like those fake nut sacks people are hanging off the back of their trucks these days...except fuzzy with spots on em." Now that's some funny stuff. I see those truck nuts all over down here. I even saw a feminist's car with pink ones on it. One of my my former girlfriends kept threatening to put a big cast of her ... errrrr lower anatomy on the hood of her truck after seeing the nuts. As far as the fuzzy dice go, I put a set in another former girlfriend's Scion XB. It helped her find it in a parking lot and they were roughly the same shape as the car.
Looking through all the old magazines there were always ads for fuzzy dice, but it's really rare that you ever see them in pictures of any car in the magazines??? My dad still has his shrunken head from around 1961 that he had hanging in his '56 Chevy back in high school.
My mother knitted, she died a couple years ago from cancer, I'd give anything to have some fuzzy dice that she knitted (and I hate fuzzy dice). I'd display them with pride and tell everyone my Mom made them. And as far as I'm concerned, that's as cool as a guy could ever be.
All you********* guys are just a bunch of softees. But seriously, I wish my mom could knit..... I'm going to ask her for something of hers or if she could make something to hang in my car now.
i got a set of black with white dots for my 53..cops hate them..they say its an obstruction of forward vision. so i took them off the rear view mirror and put them back on the rear package tray. Than (just to be an****) i put my daughters baby shoes Black and white leather shoes up hanging from the mirror..so far not a word said about them.. Discrimination!
my brother has a 57 2 door hardtop with fuzzy dice that were in it when my dad bought it a few years old. they are actually fuzzy, with glued on felt dots. much like the ones you see now.
Got my license in 1960. There were guys then that had fuzzy dice made by their girlfriends. It was kinda a status thing, 1st to have a car, 2nd to have a girl. To have both made you part of the "elite" crowd. Frank
That's a cool**** idea, I wonder if I can get my mom to chroshett (sp?) me a set. As a side note, I did get her to sew me up a welding helmet cozy complete with little bears and hearts on the fabric LOL
yeah,i've heard of the whole girls knitting them for the fellas.my girl wants to make me a set and i think it'd be cool.she made the fur package tray cover in my car now so i know she'd do a pretty good job with the same materials.
I'd hang dice made by my GIRLFREIND, but not my MOM.....unless yer momma's ya gerfriend...yikes! Think about it guys, back in HS, was it cool to wear anything your mom made??? Not really...... If the above scenario @ HS doesn't make sense......well, don't know what to tell ya.....ya either get it or ya don't.....
I had a girlfriend in hs make me some (circa 95). These were the biggest, ugliest things I have ever seen in my life. Didn't last too much longer after that
here's something a friend of mine did with his t bucket. he took a pair of model car rear slicks, and hung them from the rearview mirror with a pink ribbon. they were supposed to be the cars "baby shoes". no one really got that one.
damn thats funny my girl saw this and she is going to try to make me some i will let you know how it goes
Well, I guess it's kinda off topic but since we're talking about home made stuff from moms how about a crochetted picture of your racecar. Mom, did this in 1977 for a Christmas gift and it's hung on the wall of "what ever place I lived in" since then. She had a little trouble with the lace paint but I think the 3 hole grille and Harley decal (eagle) in the back window are killer. And ,believe me, you'll appreciate what they made for you for years after they're gone. Larry T
All right, all right. Soft fuzzy memmories are just super. Im all about my momma and****y ladies, however That is not the kind of cars I drive. I drive angry hot rods that are DIFFERENT from the sunday 65yr old "cruiser" clubs or whatever. If you are 65, drive a completly STOCK classic occasionally on sunday to the CHurch car show, great you can have your fuzzy dice. But in my opionion hamb is more for Custom projects that run off blood and mean business, not the happy go lucky stock cruisers with huge advance auto parts "HEARTBEAT OF AMURRRICA" decals on the front windshield.
I don't remember anyone on this thread actualy asking you what kind of car you drive....none of us give a***** whether you care for fuzzy dice or not. Two posts on this thread and I've put you in the***** category in my head. Way to go.
HAHaha Awesome!!! But I do think message boards are based a lot on people sharing their opinions, and those are my opinions.
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