what's with fuzzy dice?

[**DONOTDELETE**]

some jackass pulled up next to me in a 56 chevy with fuzzy dice. started reving his motor and acting cool. I smoked him. how gay are fuzzy dice and who was the first idiot to run them?
What is the fucking deal with fuzzy dice?

Anyone?

[2tall2beahotrodder]

My cutlas that i got for free, came with fuzzy dice... Im thinking leavn them , guess itta be good luck when i smoke Fat Hack in my 6 banger at the drags.. LMAO!

[DRD57]

Now days I think they're just a "lost in the 50's" fashion accessory.

Back in the 50's girls knitted them up and gave the to their boyfriends. Kind of like the girls "branding" their guys so everyone else knew they were taken. That's what I hear anyway. I was only 3 years old when the 50's were history.

[Fat Hack]

Oh Yeah??? Just TRY sneaking that Gangsta Rap Cruiser into the Drags!!!

(You'll need more than fuzzy dice to beat MY car, Kid! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

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[old beet]

Fuzzy dice been around since the fiftys. Never, never did I see anyone cool have them. I think they sold them at Western Auto or drug stores or five and dime stores. You have heard people say it before "NO DICE".......OLDBEET

[Smokin Joe]

I've got fuzzy dice. I look at 'em and remember all the cars I've had them in. And the babe who gave them to me back in 71! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I've also got a Rat Fink I got from Ed, and a rubber duck.
I wouldn't fuck with the duck... He's a Vietnam vet!

[kustumizer]

i read in a book, i think al drake wrote it that no one had dice back then? I dont like them anyways there just a little bit more loss of veiw out the windsheild! Nate

[old beet]

Me and Al are both from Portland, may been different other places.....OLDBEET

[yorgatron]

in the calif.drivers handbook they show a big purple octopus hanging off the rearview when they talk about how it's illegal.problem is,now i want one!

[2tall2beahotrodder]

Gansta Rap..HELL NO!... Ill be blastn' some local country, but with 13 inch daytons!!

You'll never see a country boy in a mexican mobile!!! Thatta be a HAMB moment!

[Smokin Joe]

Portland! You remember a couple funny cars that used to cruise the streets back about late 60's, early 70's?

Remember Kenny Goodell, and Jerry "the King" Ruth?
Actually Ruth was from Seattle I think, but he ran at PIR.

Ever been to "Earthquake Ethel's"?

[old beet]

From the "TIC TOC" to "JIM DANDY'S........OLDBEET

[2tall2beahotrodder]

Fat Hack,, how you going to compair to this Gangsta?
HOLLA!!!


steve-

[kustumizer]

boy, your snizzlin your forrizil!! LOL Nate http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Fat Hack]

The only thing GAYER than those fuzzy dice is the car you wrapped around 'em!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[FRITZ]

I have black shear thong panties hanging from my rearview mirror, some lucky girle lost em in the car, LOL
fuck fuzzy dice
FRITZ

[2tall2beahotrodder]

Wouldn't be talking...


01-15-2004 Top story


Neighborhood in shock as Fathack is accused of displaying flagrant homosexuality
Neighborhood in shock as Fathack is accused of displaying flagrant homosexuality
NEW YORK - "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil," Fathack told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of New York Hospital. Fathack, and homosexual partner "Kiki", had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed a cardboard tube up the rectum and slipped Ragnar , our gerbil, in," explained. "As usual, Kiki shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that Kiki had enough. I tried to retrieve Ragnar but he wouldn't come out again, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him."

At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tube, igniting Fathack's hair and severely burning Fathack's face. It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball."

Fathack suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Kiki suffered first and second degree burns to the anus and lower intestinal tract.

[I go pogo]

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Now days I think they're just a "lost in the 50's" fashion accessory.

Back in the 50's girls knitted them up and gave the to their boyfriends. Kind of like the girls "branding" their guys so everyone else knew they were taken. That's what I hear anyway. I was only 3 years old when the 50's were history.

[/ QUOTE ]This is right. I was there. Dice were cool if your "Chick" made them, Not cool if you bought them at Pep Boys. One of the reasons Fuzzy Dice were cool is they usually came with a fuzzy somthing else http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Fat Hack]

Ha! I've never even BEEN to New York!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

(You're just jealous of the GERBIL!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif)

Funny shit, man...you ain't right, Kid...you just ain't right! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Jimv]

in the late 50's early 60's it was cool to hang shit off your mirror, dice where cool( no matter what yuz say) shrunken heads where mega cool, red devil heads,all could be won at amusement parks, garter belts from weddings, & dog tags if you where in the service!!
Another thing that was popular was a plastic Jesus or mary!!
My cousin would soak tissues with "Canoe" & put them in his ducts on his 56 chevy, the babes loved it!! especially when he cranked up the volumne on his AM radio(WINS in NY with Murray the K) with the reverb!!!
thing where differant then, most cars where 80% stock & just nosed & decked with skirts.

[old beet]

Garter Belts? Weddings? Must be a R I thing....OLDBEET

[C9]

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Now days I think they're just a "lost in the 50's" fashion accessory.

Back in the 50's girls knitted them up and gave the to their boyfriends. Kind of like the girls "branding" their guys so everyone else knew they were taken. That's what I hear anyway. I was only 3 years old when the 50's were history.


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This is right. I was there. Dice were cool if your "Chick" made them, Not cool if you bought them at Pep Boys. One of the reasons Fuzzy Dice were cool is they usually came with a fuzzy somthing else



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DRD57 - despite his youth - and I Go Pogo are right on the money.

You gave the girl the class ring and she gave you the fuzzy dice.
And if you were lucky you got something else.

It wasn't about cool, it was about romance.
Football jocks had em in their cars, so did the most cool guys who ever walked a school hallway and even geeks had em.

It was a form of branding.
And sometimes, some girls would give you a pair of dice to tell you they were ... shall we say? ... more than interested.
It didn't take a thinking guy long to figure it out....

Pep Boys, Western Auto, Honest Charley and all the rest took note and made "fuzzy dice."
Although most of them were a plasticized sponge with black dots.
A few ran these dice, but they didn't really realize what a pair of genuine fuzzy dice were all about.

If you had the real thing - in the form of fuzzy dice, made out of for real angora yarn and knit by the hot little hands of your beloved - then maybe you'd be fortunate enough to get your hot little hands on the real thing - in the form of the beautiful young woman who knit them.

There's more to it although not much, but I will say this ... I have the patterns for genuine 50's era hand knit angora dice.

First three guys or gals who email me with their address, I'll send em out a copy.

Below, a pic circa 1956.
A pair of red & white dice along with that ever elusive accessory, a mirror muff.
The muff, not seen much today, but it was a popular add-on back in the day....

[Greazer]

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The muff, not seen much today, but it was a popular add-on back in the day....

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The rare and illusive muff is still very popular today. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[fab32]

C9, You nailed it again. Must have some experience in that area.

[Fat Hack]

Just PAINT it before we run 'em, Sizzle-Chest!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[2tall2beahotrodder]

ill paint mine ,, if you get a licence plate called "KiKi"

deal?


oh, and thats smoke from your hood, if you couldnt tell.. lmao!

[TINGLER]

Oh my god you homos are cracking me up over here! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

By the way, I have the light up dice hanging from my rearview mirror. Big Lots specials all the way.....

They are not hand made, but my girl did give them to me.
The dice are not really my kind of thing, but she likes them. I like her, so there they are hanging from my rearview.

Kinda like the old days I guess.....

JT. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[=mike=]

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The muff, not seen much today, but it was a popular add-on back in the day....


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The muff is not seen much in these parts these days . . . in fact it is frowned upon .

[Kojack]

Amazing how a topic goes so randomly off topic, then springs right back. Funny as shit though. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Pretty cool though... I never really thought about asking about the "history" of fuzzy dice, but you learn something new everyday? My question would be does the fuzzy dice have anything to do with dice on the valve stems and door locks? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[fuel pump]

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Now days I think they're just a "lost in the 50's" fashion accessory.

Back in the 50's girls knitted them up and gave the to their boyfriends. Kind of like the girls "branding" their guys so everyone else knew they were taken. That's what I hear anyway. I was only 3 years old when the 50's were history.


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This is right. I was there. Dice were cool if your "Chick" made them, Not cool if you bought them at Pep Boys. One of the reasons Fuzzy Dice were cool is they usually came with a fuzzy somthing else



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That's strange... my girlfriend knitted me a jockstrap http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Petejoe]

RatRodder, My firewall and server here picked up a virus alert when I opened up your web Link.
Please delete your message before someone gets bit. Luckily I was at work and not at home, otherwise my home puter wouldn't have picked it up.
Updated info....
From the all knowing mediator god Ryan:
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From: Ryan

I clicked on the link just to play with it.... It has a java script in it that pulls your virus scanning software just to freak you out, but it can't do any harm...


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[John B]

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Back in the 50's girls knitted them up and gave the to their boyfriends. Kind of like the girls "branding" their guys so everyone else knew they were taken.

Fuzzy Dice were cool is they usually came with a fuzzy somthing else



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That's strange... my girlfriend knitted me a jockstrap http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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Probably chose the jack strap over the dice , because there was alot less knitting to do. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Fat Hack]

Hey 41Ratsledrodder...I'll GLADLY get a Ki-Ki license plate...

Ki-Ki Dee is a HOTTIE!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

(I'll be her Elton John any day! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif)

Smoke? I thought you threw your sex-toy octopuss on my hood when you were done with it!!!

Don't Go Breakin' My Heart....Homo! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[tommy]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/image_uploads/274290-RedDicex2xz.jpg
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Jay did you pay all those speeding tickets stuffed in the ash tray or are you still a fugitive?

I had to win mine at the Firemans fair by knocking off the 6 pins with a softball. I was too ugly for the girls.

[porknbeaner]

Never had fuzzy dice. Of course I never owned a car of my own 'til '68.
I did have a shrunkin' head, and a TIKI (in different cars). We used to call 'em a MOJO, and the deal was with the crowd I ran with was if you moved it from one car to another it was bad luck.
Hola Girls were popular with my crowd, and the little dog in the back window his head going up and down.
As far as knitting them to keep the other chicks away Mine just wrote a message on the bathroom wall. I liked it it made me more popular. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I do have a pink flamingo that my daughter gave me about 5 years ago. I told her I wouldn't hang it in anything, so she had my grandaughter hang it the car we were in. Now I'm stuck with it.

[Smokin Joe]

A lot of this stuff seems silly now to some of us, but back then, the ride was the center of our young lives. As soon as we got a car, we had to do SOMETHING to make it ours. Fuzzy dice, shrunken heads, mirror muffs, were no more gay than lancer hubcaps, skull or 8-ball shifter knobs, shaved door handles, lakes pipes, Custom paint, chrome shit, pinstripes, hopped up engines, or fake polar bear fur headliners and package trays. Soon as you got a car, you had to change it to make it yours. If your girl helped, that was great too. If you've forgotten this, then I feel for you.

If you missed it the first time around... Go back to high school, get your tongue and nipple pierced, get a tattoo, stick a fart can and some stickers on your Honda and learn to live... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Fat Hack]

By the early 80s, it was yellow traction bars and speed equipment stickers in your rear quarter windows that made your high school heap HOT!

Bonus points for Keystone Klassic or Cragar mags and a hood scoop made you a GOD!

We never did the fuzzy dice thang...but one guy hung fishing lures from his rearview mirror...named one of them "Thunder, The WONDER Worm"....bet he got ALL the chicks!!

Of course...you had to walk the line between COOL and TACKY...you stray too far over into Tackyville and you got a FOOD MAGNET on your hands...and all credibility is LOST!!

(It became a tradition amongst my Buds to throw food at tacky cars on cruise night or in the school parking lot...started by one guy in particular who STILL does things like that!)

This one kid had a 69 or 70 Impala jacked to the Moon with sidepipes, primer spots and a HUGE pro stock snorkel scoop on it. We saw him in our school parking lot and Dave whipped an apple from his lunch bag at the car as we drove past in his Mom's Trans Am.

The few scant seconds from the time the apple left his hand, then sailed in a gracefull arc towards the Impala, hit the scoop with a solid, hollow "THUNK", and then rolled off the opposite fender as the driver's eyes followed it are frozen in my mind forever...the somewhat confused, indifferent look on the kid's face was priceless as we roared by and laughed our asses off!

Another boner with a gawdy Torino pulled into the Burger King parking lot one cruise night, and Dave grabbed MY fries and whipped the whole carton at the car. EVERYONE in the parking lot followed suit...and the guy with the Torino (one of our buddies to this day, actually!) raced off as his car was bombarded with burgers, fries, onion rings, shakes and cokes!

Of course...you weren't SHIT without the proper radio station stickers on your bumper, either! WABX and WRIF were the ones of choice in Motown...show up with CKLW or WQRS and you'd be able to eat remnants off your car for WEEKS!

I 'spose every generation has their little fads and quirks...but fuzzy dice were "for old people and fags" as far as we were concerned as teens...and SURE to draw fire in the way of "Burger Bombs" if one of us showed up with 'em in our car!!!

[AV8Paul]

I never had fuzzy dice. But I did have one of those perfumed skunks on string that hung from my mirror. It helped mask the blow-by from that tired old flathead in my 1934 pickup.
Anyone see those little skunks anymore?

[porknbeaner]

Paul,
You might try Whitney for the skunks.
I still see them once in awhile in truck stops.

[C9]

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My question would be does the fuzzy dice have anything to do with dice on the valve stems and door locks?

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I think it does.
Like the flames that started out on a midget or sprint car, there was a midget or sprint numbered 7-11 and it had a pair of dice painted on the side.

Not to mention, the slightly outlaw aspect of dice as used in a street game of craps.
Not that I ever played craps in the street, it was penny pitching for us in junior high and that was about it.

The dice accessories, door locks, valve caps are kinda cool, but not seen much today.
Cept at a few rod runs.
Trouble with the cool valve stems was/is, leave your car in a parking lot and they would disappear.
Probably making a couple of junior high bicycle riding rats happy.

The fuzzy dice disappeared as well.
Leave your car unlocked with the windows rolled down and they would disappear.
Happened with the first pair I ever got, nice green & white ones. Didn't matter I guess, the girl disappeared not long after....

[C9]

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Jay did you pay all those speeding tickets stuffed in the ash tray or are you still a fugitive?


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That could have been a couple of traffic tickets.
My record is two in one day - for the same thing.
My bud swiped my cutout caps and I got busted twice in about an hour.
The first cop was just doing his job.
The second cop hated hot rods, hated kids and generally hated the world. I tried to show him the first ticket, but he just told me to shut up and wrote another.

Wasn't too bad since it wasn't a moving violation.
I paid for those by walking.
Couple weeks at a time fwiw. One of them right across the Christmas Formal in my senior year. Really impressed the girl friend with that one.

The pic shows my 50 Ford custom two door sedan, Titian red at the time, dropped in front a touch, pair of pipes and as you can see an SW vacuum gauge in place of the clock and an oil temp gauge lower left.
The 50 was a neat car with all the bells and whistles - overdrive, V8, tinted windshield and windwings, radio and heater. That pretty much rounded out the option list when dad bought it.

Parked in front of the record store at the intersection of Main and Catalina, just across from Ventura high school.

You can't hardly see it, but there's a monster painted on the dash just to the right of the speaker grille.
Was kinda cool, a bit dragon like and done with poster paints so it could be washed off later.
I lettered the word "Cat" to the right of it. Thought that was a cool touch.
Right up until my girl friends straight up dad, church youth group running guy and all got in to catch a ride one morning.
He looked at the "monster", looked at me, looked at his daughter sitting in the middle, looked at the monster again and shook his head.
I wondered why until after we dropped him off.
When we hit the school parking lot, I mentioned to girl friend that her dad didn't seem to like the monster.
She said, "no wonder, you're not much at lettering."
I looked at it again and what I thought said "cat" plainly said "eat."
And looking at the long tongue on the monster, the light slowly dawned.
Girl friend smiled, got out and went to class leaving me thinking once again what an idiot I was....

[porknbeaner]

Hack,
Neat memories.
Hell I'd have been after havin' a dork mobile just for the free burgers. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

When I was in highschool there were the guys with the stickers also. We called 'em window racers.

Perfect Circle Rings were really popular stickers. You could get 'em at the auto parts for just about any purchase.

One kid Larry Lord actually had the stuff to go along with the stickers (his folks had money). He finally scraped most of that stuff off once nobody would hook up with him out at 3 tenths.

Sleepers were where its at for me. Never had a problem gettin' hooked up for a dime out at 3 tenths.

I've always wondered if the kids still race out there. Hmmm. Next time I'm out west I'll have to check it out.

[zman]

Back in the early 80's I drove a sleeper. It was a piece of crap looking '69 Lemans. It was faded blue with Keystone Classics, the worlds ugliest wheel. But low and behold it had a Ram Air IV from a GTO and a 12-bolt w/4.11 posi. I love the kids with the stickers. They're the ones I liked to mess with the most. 9 times out of 10 if they had stickers, they didn't have shit under the hood. Boy was that fun...

[wingnutz]

I was part of the re-surgance of the "Fuzzy Dice" after the release of "American Graffitti"..., But the only way you should get them is from your girlfriend!

Apparently she would offer them to you after alot foreplay in your car (Fuzzy Dice = Gonads in the Sack!)!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[porknbeaner]

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I was part of the re-surgance of the "Fuzzy Dice" after the release of "American Graffitti"..., But the only way you should get them is from your girlfriend!

Apparently she would offer them to you after alot foreplay in your car (Fuzzy Dice = Gonads in the Sack!)!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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In my highschool years it was the 4 star label off a bottle of oly. you peeled the label off the bottle, some had 4 stars on them (who knows why) if you gave to a chick and she signed it you were good to go.

Now back to sleepers, the car I had with the TIKI on the mirror was a '55 Ranchwagon. Original hunter green (I did wax it once), dog dish hubcaps (off a '57 ford). 900x15 in the rear and 750s in the front. 3x2 (strombergs) fenton headers, Thunderbird 312. Got it out of a friends mom's wrecked T Hawk.
Long roofs weren't chick magnets by no means, but who would suspect a ranchwagon out at the street races.
The engine and tranny that ended up in the Victoria started out in the ranchwagon. The Vick got a Voodoo head, the TIKI proved to have run out of luck.

[hillbillyhellcat]

I had fuzzy dice in my TBird when I got it, I yanked em out and they hang in my room.

I think I must have been 20 years behind... When I graduated from HS a few years ago, my choice ride was a '71 Torino with air shocks, Keystone Klassics, glass packs and a hood scoop, not to mention eye burning yellow! It also had a kickin stereo that blasted Van Halen http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Fortunately nobody threw burgers at my car. I don't think they even knew what it was, some crappy old car. Someone at school asked my 17 year old brother what "Got Torque" meant on his T-Shirt, which was emblazoned with a wheelstanding Falcon gasser. The kid thought it was French, as in TOR-KAY. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Petejoe]

No fuzzy dice used in my area when I was young. But to have your or your girlfriends graduation tossel hanging off the mirror was cooler than cool. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Another item was her class ring hanging with angora wound around the ring. Oh how that brings memories back of how those angora sweaters fit the girls........... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[SamIyam]

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You gave the girl the class ring and she gave you the fuzzy dice.
And if you were lucky you got something else.


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So it was a way to get laid?

I dig it... shit, when I was a kid in the 80's... we had to get them drunk...
even then it was usually with a girl that had the reputation of a door knob...

everybody got a turn...
Sam.

[Mutt]

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You gave the girl the class ring and she gave you the fuzzy dice.
And if you were lucky you got something else.


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So it was a way to get laid?

I dig it... shit, when I was a kid in the 80's... we had to get them drunk...
even then it was usually with a girl that had the reputation of a door knob...

everybody got a turn...
Sam.

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Sam, We had one like that - Rotten Box Ruthie. A quart of beer and the back row at the drive in movies - but you had to go to a movie far away from home so no one saw you, and a condom was a must ! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Nads]

I've never been back to the '50s, but I was high in the mid '90s.

[Fat Hack]

Hillbilly...your 71 Torino woulda probably been spared the "Burger Barrage" by our gang...the one we lit up at Burger King was a crappy 76 Torino with a vinyl top, air shocks and Keystone Klassics on the back only!

One guy we ran with drove a beat-to-shit four door Maverick with a beer can epoxied to his front fender...he said it was the first one he ever drank...and wanted to save it! It looked funny as Hell going down the road...and the cops never bothered him about it!

(Try that TODAY!)

I picked up some hot little chick out on Telegraph one night...and she gave me a tape! She hopped in the car and said "Do you like J Geils?"...then, without waiting for an answer, jammed in the tape and cranked it up! It played over and over that night as we cruised the strip and got feely with each other!

I think her name was Stacey...or Tracy, or something like that!

Fun times...and I still have that tape...she said to keep it after I dropped her off at her aunt's!

[porknbeaner]

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I've never been back to the '50s, but I was high in the mid '90s.

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That'll probably only get you as far back as the 60's. Unless of course your want to be a beatnick or an Angel. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

And you know what they say, "If you can remember the '60s you weren't there." http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Gawd knows I don't recall only what the tell me. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[jazzfidelity]

i am so sorry, but fuzzy dice today, especially the ones you can get from the local autozone, are so dang cliche, really.. a friend of mine years ago had some real ones on his 58 belair, authentic from the 50s, hand knitted with black buttons, those are the only ones i can handle.. pleeeeeze no more fuzzy dice...

[White_Attack]

I keep a look out for these kind of trends. I'm always seeing them around. Fuzz Dice, Pin striping, etc. I wouldn't want to put anything of these onto my Cadillac. It would ruin it in my opinion. I'd like to keep things pure and make up my own trend!

[Slick Willy]

Wait a minute!! I think we have a record!! Digging up a useless (but funny) thread from almost 8 years ago!!! WOOOHOOO

[Fenders]

Jimv nailed it !!

[Zed]

Wait a minute!! I think we have a record!! Digging up a useless (but funny) thread from almost 8 years ago!!! WOOOHOOO

8 years ? damn ! talk about oldschool !lol! :D

[hotroddon]

Wait a minute!! I think we have a record!! Digging up a useless (but funny) thread from almost 8 years ago!!! WOOOHOOO
And nothing constructive to add to it :eek:

[Baumi]

The thread was a good to read and amazing how many old members have contributed to it. I miss C9´s posts.

[ScottV]

Gansta Rap..HELL NO!... Ill be blastn' some local country, but with 13 inch daytons!!

You'll never see a country boy in a mexican mobile!!! Thatta be a HAMB moment!

No doubt "Hick-Hop" !!! :rolleyes:

[1950ChevySuburban]

Nice old thread to read about. Special treat for me to see C9s perspective on things.

As far as fuzzy dice goes, I was an '80s teenager. Dice were kinda dying out, and I never knew the significance of having your gal make you a set.
My GF at the time knitted me a pair to match my '75 Duster - gold with black dots. Wish I kept them in my memories box of stuff.

[Deuces]

The only thing I had hangin' off my rear view mirror was a black lace garter...

[erlomd]

The only thing I had hangin' off my rear view mirror was a black lace garter...

Thats real classy! It says "ladies I have arrived and I mean business" :D

Nice old thread BTW...

[dana barlow]

1958 A shrunken head [fake one] then some dice,then ,For a about a year,the tasile from getting out of highschool,then some custom made aghagritcorel pendints,I gave to girls that ask nice.

[philly the greek]

I remember my cousin in Modesto CA ( home of the movie American Graffiti) knitting some for her boyfriend . The really cool ones were made from Angora wool , super fuzzy !

[khead47]

I prefered "Old Spice" LOL !

[farmergal]

our car has a small "mini" pair of dice hanging from the mirror. one black, one white. theyre tiny, not distracting like the big ones, and mom found them for us so we can't, not hang them in the car :)

[jazzfidelity]

guess i'm the one responsible for regurgitating this old thread back to life after 8 years, sorry...

[Slick Willy]

Dont be sorry, its a classic!

[chaos10meter]

Actually they were invented at a California old folks home in 1942.

You know how loud noise's bother senior citizens and they start to get poor eyesight, can't see the small dots.

It was for the annual casino nite at the home.

[Frankie47]

I like these...

[porknbeaner]

some jackass pulled up next to me in a 56 chevy with fuzzy dice. started reving his motor and acting cool. I smoked him. how gay are fuzzy dice and who was the first idiot to run them?
What is the fucking deal with fuzzy dice?

Anyone?

From what I understand it meant that you are taken. You were supposed to get them from your girlfriend.

Missus 'beaner just took lipstick and wrote on the mirror in the girls bathroom, don't mess with B...., he's mine.

That is the truth. Not that it made any difference no one was really interested in me anyway. To this day I don't know how a lame assed jerk like myself ended up with the prettiest girl in the school.

[iwanaflattie]

No doubt "Hick-Hop" !!! :rolleyes:
hahahahah


so where are all thest cats today?

[cederholm]

Nice old thread to read about. Special treat for me to see C9s perspective on things.

As far as fuzzy dice goes, I was an '80s teenager. Dice were kinda dying out, and I never knew the significance of having your gal make you a set.
My GF at the time knitted me a pair to match my '75 Duster - gold with black dots. Wish I kept them in my memories box of stuff.

You hada girlfriend in the 80's that could knitt??:eek::D

[K-88 ghost]

I remember in the 50s before the fuzzy dice, when you had a car, your girl knitted miniture argile socks with the same colors as your car. Then regular knit dice, and angora dice. After that it was any thing goes. :cool:

[Larry W]

Been sporting these since 9-11, If you don't like them, too damn bad.

[porknbeaner]

Been sporting these since 9-11, If you don't like them, too damn bad.

I have been trying to get a handle on this, maybe it is just that i have a bad attitude about life. When did hot rodding become about if someone else likes you stuff? Its never been about that for anyone I ever hung out with.

[farmergal]

I remember in the 50s before the fuzzy dice, when you had a car, your girl knitted miniture argile socks with the same colors as your car. Then regular knit dice, and angora dice. After that it was any thing goes. :cool:


Thats really funny...my grandmother liked to crochett (sp?) and knit and she made a small pair of socks connected together by the yarn strand (like the dice). they are light yellow and they still hang from the mirror in my grandfather's pick-up. My grandma passed away 4 years ago now and life hasnt been the same since.

[hotroddon]

I have been trying to get a handle on this, maybe it is just that i have a bad attitude about life. When did hot rodding become about if someone else likes you stuff? Its never been about that for anyone I ever hung out with.

Come on Beaner ~ You know that's not entirely true. Hot rodders ALWAYS looked for acceptance from their immediate peers. You wanted your buddies to tell you how cool your latest addition was, and even for them to be a bit jealous. Everyone does, it's human nature :D

[cruzr]

never had the dice, but when i was a teen, my gal knitted a "mirror warmer" out of angora........that was the fad in the OC around late 50's

[Smokey2]

SAME Thing as Fuzzy Balls.................

(fuzzy Balls, Used only at Christmas ! )

Smoked-up

[Igosplut]

By the early 80s, it was yellow traction bars and speed equipment stickers in your rear quarter windows that made your high school heap HOT! )

This one kid had a 69 or 70 Impala jacked to the Moon with sidepipes, primer spots and a HUGE pro stock snorkel scoop on it. We saw him in our school parking lot and Dave whipped an apple from his lunch bag at the car as we drove past in his Mom's Trans Am.

The few scant seconds from the time the apple left his hand, then sailed in a gracefull arc towards the Impala, hit the scoop with a solid, hollow "THUNK", and then rolled off the opposite fender as the driver's eyes followed it are frozen in my mind forever...the somewhat confused, indifferent look on the kid's face was priceless as we roared by and laughed our asses off!

Another boner with a gawdy Torino pulled into the Burger King parking lot one cruise night, and Dave grabbed MY fries and whipped the whole carton at the car. EVERYONE in the parking lot followed suit...and the guy with the Torino (one of our buddies to this day, actually!) raced off as his car was bombarded with burgers, fries, onion rings, shakes and cokes!

Of course...you weren't SHIT without the proper radio station stickers on your bumper, either!

Funny stuff.... I used to go up to the Framingham Ma. area to see a friend in the 80s. He had this crappy 66 Buick Wildcat that he drove, and told me a story about a guy who cruised late at night with a Big hood-scooped blue nova that looked like a race car. He'd never stop anywhere so nobody could ever get a good look at the car. He'd pull up to you at stoplights and act like he wanted to run, trying to intimidate people with the look of the car. We went out that night and found him, beating him badly with the bashed-out Buick. Turns out my buddy had found where he lived and looked over the car in the daytime. It had a 10 pt rollbar completely made out of PVC, a Quadrajet iron-intake/exhaust smallblock, and ladder bars that were just wired up under the car, and that was just for starters. We stopped afterwards, and when he idled by my buddy tossed a can of PVC glue in front of him so he could see what it was. Funny shit.

Yes, our prerequisite Radio station sticker was WBCN. I still have a pile of 'em somewhere.

[tedster]

I bought a 1950 license plate from an ol boy last summer and he said anyone that buys a plate gets free flamed dice. I gave them to my 1 year old grandson, he loves them. You don't think I have scarred him for life do you?

[53Hattie]

By the late 50s/early 60s I never saw any fuzzy dice. The occasional shrunken head, yes. More common was her class ring on a chain [yours she wore on a chain], also one of her chiffon scarves tied around the mirror post was not uncommon, and of course the ubiquitous graduation tassel.

[Zapato]

[/QUOTE]

... I have the patterns for genuine 50's era hand knit angora dice.

First three guys or gals who email me with their address, I'll send em out a copy.

Below, a pic circa 1956.
A pair of red & white dice along with that ever elusive accessory, a mirror muff.
The muff, not seen much today, but it was a popular add-on back in the day....[/QUOTE]


I was lucky enough to receive a pattern from C9 at a different time. Had it for years and finally had a set made by one of my nieces. World of difference from the made in china ones. I ran a pair of those for awhile as my daughter gifted me a set and then years later my grand daughter did the same. Not too cool to hurt a little girls feelings.

[Larjk9]

never had the dice, but when i was a teen, my gal knitted a "mirror warmer" out of angora........that was the fad in the OC around late 50's

Pick any hundred high school girls from anywhere. I wonder what percentage would even know what to do with a ball of yarn and a pair of knitting needles. I think girls were mo-betta back in the day.;)

[Stevie Nash]

Wouldn't be talking...


01-15-2004 Top story


Neighborhood in shock as Fathack is accused of displaying flagrant homosexuality
Neighborhood in shock as Fathack is accused of displaying flagrant homosexuality
NEW YORK - "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil," Fathack told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of New York Hospital. Fathack, and homosexual partner "Kiki", had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed a cardboard tube up the rectum and slipped Ragnar , our gerbil, in," explained. "As usual, Kiki shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that Kiki had enough. I tried to retrieve Ragnar but he wouldn't come out again, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him."

At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tube, igniting Fathack's hair and severely burning Fathack's face. It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball."

Fathack suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Kiki suffered first and second degree burns to the anus and lower intestinal tract.

I almost pee'd myself! :D

[Ernie Pintor III]

Where the he'll did that story come from? Crazy homo. Sounds funny and would be even funnier to see.

[Speedy Canuck]

Pick any hundred high school girls from anywhere. I wonder what percentage would even know what to do with a ball of yarn and a pair of knitting needles. I think girls were mo-betta back in the day.;)

I can't say for certain, cause I wasn't around back then, but I do agree. It's getting tough to find girls with looks, brains and the ambition to have some fun other than getting intoxicated every night.
They also don't seem to appreciate good cars any more. :rolleyes:

[Ol Skool '51]

Always had FUCKING FUZZY DICE as you call them in every hot rod and custom I have owned since 1960. Had a RAT FINK in one way or another since then also. You guys just can't get it can you:confused:

Why do you want everybody to like only what you think is cool:confused::confused:

These two photos should piss you off:eek:

[mammyjammer]

RIGHT ON!!!!!!

I thought the hobby was all about customizing cars to suit the owner, not the Peanut Gallery!!!

Nice Ford by the way.....

[denis4x4]

[ QUOTE ]
Now days I think they're just a "lost in the 50's" fashion accessory.

Back in the 50's girls knitted them up and gave the to their boyfriends. Kind of like the girls "branding" their guys so everyone else knew they were taken. That's what I hear anyway. I was only 3 years old when the 50's were history.

[/ QUOTE ]This is right. I was there. Dice were cool if your "Chick" made them, Not cool if you bought them at Pep Boys. One of the reasons Fuzzy Dice were cool is they usually came with a fuzzy somthing else http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Ditto

[55gasserkid]

Fuzzy Dice are about as cool as this!

1509330

lolololol :)

[Deuces]

Thats real classy! It says "ladies I have arrived and I mean business" :D

Nice old thread BTW...
Yeah, I got that one from a gal I met at a wedding reception.... Oh, what a night that was! :)

I'll keep the details to myself.. ;)

[milwscruffy]

I skipped the dice and went straight to the tassel off my high school graduation cap. Still got pulled over by cops for obstructing my view. Boy I don't miss prick motorcycle cops !! Still got the tasile too but it's old and faded like me.

[silversink]

From the "TIC TOC" to "JIM DANDY'S........OLDBEET
Greg Ireland used to be part of that crowd.
Jim Dandy's Van's Drive In, Tic Toc, Sandy Jug, Broadway, Night Drags on Marine Drive, Rocky Butte,Portland Speedway Race Track, Firestone 1/8th mile run---Need I go on?
I miss those days running around in my 40 ford pickup with a 312 and a 3 speed OD trans.
Just a farm boy from Reynolds High Scool----Go Lancers
By the way we all had dice or fuzzy balls hanging Hahaha
A quick funny story---last summer at the End of The World Rod Run, my wife went into one of the vender shacks and out of nowhere asked the guy if he had fuzzy Balls---he about choked to death on the chilli dog he was eating. She couldn't figure why everyone was rolling on the ground laughing.

[Bounder]

I got fuzzy dice and my tassel on my mirror of my 50 Merc. And I love it did it in high school in the 50's so why not now. And this time around I'm paying for it so nobody can say anything to me about it like my Dad did back then!! Wish he was here so he could say something just one last time.

[Zapato]

Greg Ireland used to be part of that crowd.
Jim Dandy's Van's Drive In, Tic Toc, Sandy Jug, Broadway, Night Drags on Marine Drive, Rocky Butte,Portland Speedway Race Track, Firestone 1/8th mile run---Need I go on?
I miss those days running around in my 40 ford pickup with a 312 and a 3 speed OD trans.
Just a farm boy from Reynolds High Scool----Go Lancers
By the way we all had dice or fuzzy balls hanging Hahaha
A quick funny story---last summer at the End of The World Rod Run, my wife went into one of the vender shacks and out of nowhere asked the guy if he had fuzzy Balls---he about choked to death on the chilli dog he was eating. She couldn't figure why everyone was rolling on the ground laughing.

Weird no one ever mentions Scotty's when talking Portland drive-ins, and seldom mentions King's, Lumberjack or Bun-n-Burger.

[silversink]

Scottys was where the Tic Toc croud went after the cops showed up and cleared the lower parking lot. Scottys always looked good with the dragster on top of thier sign.

[firingorder1]

Funny how someone who doesn't know tradition attacks it as gay. If you want to know where you're going you gotta know where you've been.

[milwscruffy]

Funny how someone who doesn't know tradition attacks it as gay. If you want to know where you're going you gotta know where you've been.

Amen, it was more of a trend like tattoo's now. Only difference is if you no longer like the dice you can take them off.:D

[lordairgtar]

tasile...aghagritcorel pendints
...and they gave you a graduation tassel spelling that badly? :D

[Old&Low]

Great old thread to resurrect! I remember hanging fuzzy dice in my '34 Tudor in High School, then my graduation tassel in 1965, and then my girl's garter in my '35 Coupe when we were married in 1967, but I think my favorite is the set of 'Rainbow' colored Origami dice my wife folded for me in 2000. She still folds me a new set whenever the old ones start to fade. Maybe that's why our marriage never has.

[39cent]

yea my 'hyskool' steady knitted them for me, it had a short run as a fad, but they reappeared now and then. They were a symbol directly opposite of gay. mid 50,s.

[Cruiser]

**DONOTDELETE** (http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/member.php?u=2) - Here's your very own fuzzy dice from J.C. Whitney enjoy!

J.C.

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[Six-Shooter]

I'm proud to hang a pair of fuzzy yellow dice from the rear view mirror of my t-bucket. I got 'em from www.thehotrodgirl.com (http://www.thehotrodgirl.com).