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Creepy vintage ad: the Car Chic

Mark Frauenfelder at 1:29 pm Wed, Mar 30, 2011

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

Car Chics

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 woman´s head to be attached to the sits of your car?. Couldn´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 didn’t mount them on a wooden “trophy” 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.