Urban camouflage
My Jeep is camouflaged to look like a commercial fleet vehicle. I made up a fake company name, appropriated a 1950s-era logo that once belonged to a nuclear energy mutual fund, painted safety stripes on the back, and plastered a fake vehicle number all over the place. I also added flashing yellow lights in the rear window, and a police-style spotlight and rubberized push bumper to the front. VERY FUN accessories ... and useful too (when used with discretion). The spotlight is incredibly versatile -- you can point/rotate it while sitting in the driver's seat -- and it's come in handy countless times for roadside emergencies, setting up campsites, or finding house numbers on dark streets.
This urban camouflage guise is very useful for parking in yellow zones, urban/industrial exploration, and crime deterrence. And the thing is... it really works!
The spotlight, bumper, and rear flashers came from my *all-time favorite* mail order catalog: Galls, "The Authority in Public Safety Equipment and Apparel."
It's a gold mine, full of handy things that you didn't think you were allowed to buy.
-- Todd Lapin
Vehicle warning lights & flashers
Unruly crowds? Need riot gear?
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Clark Gardner
Along this line of thinking, I had the idea that if I were moving cross country in a van or truck, I would buy some of those rubber magnetic signs that go on commercial vehicles. Have printed on it something like:
Metro Reptile Tranport
Caution Venomous Snakes on Board !!
metroreptiletransport.com
800-snaksrus
Put those signs on every door and I doubt it would ever be broken into.
Scott
Of course, you could have just as easily put a Domino's or Papa John's sign on the roof.
Mark Adkins
That reminds me of a story years ago in Reader's Digest, I think it was, about a guy who camo painted an old pick-up and tricked it out to look semi-military with the lettering USC on the sides so he could park in unusual places when hunting or fishing and not be bothered,
When one game warden finally, after years of no troubles, threatened to write him up for faking a military vehicle he pointed out that USC stood for US Citizen and he had regular plates, so go ahead and try.
Marrz
I'm so doing this to my car, I've got a 94 mercury grand marquis so it's perfect too, not to mention seeing the recent maker post I've got access to funeral home junk so I'm gonna use that too
was the door light a bolt on or does it require fabrication, the galls didn't make that clear