Creepy vintage ad: the Car Chic

From artist Mitch O'Connell's bottomless trove of mind-bending ephemera: the Car Chic. (See also: Vibra-Finger.)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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DieFem

Come again!. Is this a plastic womanÂ´s head to be attached to the sits of your car?. CouldnÂ´t be true!.
t00mer

Is it just me, or doesn’t the blonde Car Chic kind of look like Xeni’s avatar/icon on the front page of BB?
grimc

A while back, SkyMall offered a fake male dummy that was pitched as security for women who drove alone at night. It had a whole body, and was dressed in a red plaid shirt and aviator sunglasses. Why he would be wearing sunglasses at night, I do not know.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Those things mostly were used to get into the carpool lane.
  - grimc
    
    True. I think there was a news item about a guy who had one that finally got busted because somebody watching a CC camera noticed him drive past everyday at the same time and his passenger was always wearing the same clothes.
- Halloween Jack
  
  Why he would be wearing sunglasses at night, I do not know.
  
  Why, indeed?
  
  And, frankly, this seems less egregious than Calvin pissing on some random logo.
foxtails

Your choice of Redhead, Blonde, or Brunette.

What about black-haired women? And why is there no word like “Blackhead” anyway?
- teapot
  
  I know.. How am I supposed to placate my yellow fever without a black haired 3/4 clip-on head!?
- seanc0x0
  
  I think “raven-haired” is about as close as you’ll get. Blackhead just reminds me of zits.
JhmL

‘Talk of the neighborhood’ alright.
Nadreck

Perhaps inspired by the My Mother, the Car show?
DeWynken

Hey what’s better than honor….INNER!! HA HAH!
Anonymous

Freakiest thing of all? Honor House is still in business at the same location (!)
IWood

You know, it’s an easy, Maker-type project to get a full size one of these. I’ve got one in my trunk right now.
voiceinthedistance

Can someone please translate this into logic? The online translators are only coming up with gibberish.
Anonymous

All the cats who drive cars? You mean, like Toonces?
Jack

Looks like Honor House figured out a way to use loose heads when they didnâ€™t mount them on a wooden â€œtrophyâ€Â backing:
http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/stuffed_girls_heads_only_2.98/
Stefan Jones

Which is sadder:

An entreprenuer sitting in a warehouse full of unsold Car Chics, sobbing over how his vision of mountable women-heads ruined his marriange and lost him a fortune, or . .

Thousands of crass slobs tearing open brown paper packages and giggling in anticipation of finally having a womean head to stick in the car window.
Stefan Jones

What the hell?

If I ever finish building this damn time machine, I’m going to put a visit to Honor House Product Corp. on my to-do list. What a place that must have been!

Hmmm. Maybe it wasn’t “Product Corp.,” but actually Prod Corp. As in, an outfit that sold cattle prods that just kind of branched out.
Quiet Wyatt

Hang a pair of truck nuts over your Car Chic’s face, for a touch of real class.
LeSinge

Huh? Why does she look backwards?
irksome

“Honor? Why I hardly know her!”

Do I have to supply my own bloody clown suit?
rks1157

…”whether you’re young or old, married or single…” I know, let’s guess which!
Tim

My first thought was “Ok… I guess it’s to place in the passenger seat so you can use the car-pool lane?”

Then I actually looked closer at it and though why is it made to 3/4 life-size?

Then finally just a simple WTF.
Antinous / Moderator

$2.98 seems cheap for a little head.
- bcsizemo
  
  Haw haw haw.
- BB
  
  Well, best comment, nothing to add.
Anonymous

honor house – also the maker of the polaris nuclear sub for 6.98

http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2007/12/polaris-nuclear-sub-photo.html

it’s a “submarine” made out of cardboard – thank god I never bought one of these when I was a kid, I would have been terribly disappointed.