What the hell are they, and why do people put one to several around their cars?? Are they some type of totem to ward away bad juju? The only other place I really see these is in the hallway of the care center my Grandma lives in. Honestly, they kinda freak me out. To many 'Chucky' movies I guess.
They are cry babies. You should go to the Hot Rod Hoe Down in DE. they have a contest to see who can kick one the furthest
A. Chucky wanna-be's. B. Supposed to be cute, it used to be Bongo's in the back seat or package shelf. C. Before that it was cute furry animals so girls would like you. D. People have a need to "dress up" their car so you'll look at it...a lot like those trophy hounds that always bring ALL their trophies to pile them around their car at an outdoor show! Definitely attracts all those people that "know" everything about YOUR car! E. Depends on where you live...we've been thru that phase around here...now they're shown UNDER the tire! F. Never, NEVER let your wife, GF, significant other bring one along when you're heading to a rod run...you'll NEVER live it down! R-
They seem to go by different names. "Cry Babies" is one. We had one named "Dolly" that started up here in Canada at a fun run, then went to Bonneville, then wound up in Australia, back to Florida and the moment, no one seems to know where she is. (people would pack her in their suitcase and move her to different countries) On one of the web sites - now no longer around - she kept everyone laughing about "Where's Dolly?" (the stories were a hoot!) Hey, ya have to do something when the snow flies!!
at GoodGuys Puyallup this year I think I only saw one five years ago every one of the two thousand plus cars there had at least one of them
What bothers me the most is that they never look like real little kids. Everyone that I've seen looks like someone stuffed a pillow into a pair of jeans and leaned up against a car. Whay would anybody put pants on a pillow and lean it up against a car?
Back when i actually went to NSRA shows they were everywhere. Mostly by pink four door cars with thier fat ugly owners sitting behind them..
G. And lets not forget that plastic "Drive-In" food on a tray. Usually on cars with "Peggy Sue" pinstriped on the quarters. H. I've also seen those life size cardboard cutouts of James Dean and Mariloyn Monroe next to them. Bob
Ya, it makes me glad that my car isn't on the road yet. I'm sure I'd have some sort of stupid shit like that around my car....
I must say that the first few cry babies I saw were much more realistic than the ones you see these days. I think there was one incident where I had never seen this phenomena before and I was momentarily startled by a small child leaning against a ridiculous looking street rod. Nowadays nobody puts pride into their cry babies, they just look fake. Although sometimes you see one with a knife in its back or something to that effect, and the owner shows a little more concern for authenticity. Myself, I like it when people put huge stuffed Looney Tunes characters in their cars. Taz is the ultimate. That or big aliens. I'm not sure when street rodding and aliens became intertwined, but it's entirely frickin' awesome. When I get older I'm gonna prop totally illogical items up next to my car at shows, like a rusty drill press, a dehumidifier, or a grandfather clock. That'll stump 'em.
My little girl though it was a real kid, she kept asking "whats wrong w/ him" Told her to go look at him and she freaked out....now I just want to kick them because my daughter gets upset from them. They are freaky looking dolls....never liked them...kind-of like Barney the Dinosoar.
We're traditionalists, so we should do this AUTHENTICALLY. Hire a dwarf for the day and dress him up like that. Get him to turn around suddenly and curse at anyone who stops to stare, perhaps hurling an empty beer can, as well...
The last we heard about "Dolly"; was that she had met her fate in the Florida everglades! Probably gave some poor "croc" indigestion! (see I told you we were nuts! eh! )
It could be worse; it could be little fake hot rods leaned against big fat ugly street rodders. Yikes!
The sad truth - Many people are not fit to raise children, it's a sad fact of life these days. Sometimes the government has to step in and remove the children from the home. The guilty parents will then try to fool all their neighbors and friends by making a fake son or daughter out of clothes they got at the Salvation Army store. It's a pitiful attempt at hiding their shame. All because they exposed their children to extreme amounts of billet accessories, pastel paint and Boyd's wheels. **** Before someone gets their panties in a wad. Yes I know that children being removed from a home is a serious thing and it pisses me off when a child is neglected. ****
Its a street rodder fad thats only one step below Neon lights.......and an interior full of stuffed animals and trophys-sadly TRYING to attract another trophy.
heck i think they should add points to cars that have crybabydolls next to them so more cars have them at shows... man, billetproof and vivalasvegas etc need a crybaby rule, no entry unless a crybabydoll with a pompadour
Now THERE'S a hell of of a great idea!! Now ... if you could get one of the beer companies to supply the beer for the dwarf - which of course he would drink and empty - he could be pretty hilarious after a couple of hours!!
im gonna get a huge living dead doll or something heeeyyy www.autopsybabies.com there we got the perfect dolls to put next to your car... one dark night the fat streetrodders will get killed by their angry billet polishing tiny slave doll darn i'm gonna write a letter to the president demanding some kinda union thingy for these billet polisher tiny people... and with union i do not talk about the thing you eat..
i've never seen them here in sweden, only on pics from american carshows... maybe i could be the first, wouldnt it be cool to start a trend here in 2005 with billet polishing tiny doll slaves.. thats the shit man... no, i think ill go with the autopsybabies thingy instead, yeah, that would so rock , i think i maybe need to go to sleep, dead tired ...
ohh now i rememberd, J.B. always have one of those dolls next to his mercury so i guess its nothing new over here
u know they are supposed to be tiny, and wikings is kinda big unless you could find a hobbit wiking of course
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