Car-less Day stickers

**Hitcher** · 31st July 2007, 16:56

Here's a question for the older members of this community.

Remember the ill-fated Car-less Day scheme of the late 1970s?

Who can remember what colour each of the stickers were?

I know that Thursday was a funny purple shade, but what colour was each of the other six?

I am prepared to pay for high-quality examples of this collateral, if people have some lying around in their Glory Boxes.

This is a serious question, by the way. I may explain later what I'm up to...

**Edbear** · 31st July 2007, 17:20

That's a very long time ago, Hitch! I vaguely recall Monday was kinda red, I think, though I could be wrong...

**JimO** · 31st July 2007, 17:21

my bosses statesman was exempt as it was a work vehicle but a girlfriends parents had 2 cars and both were on tuesday,i couldnt believe it i had a trailbike so it didnt affect me

**Krusti** · 31st July 2007, 17:23

Was tuesday orange? I have a sneaking suspicion I know when you need this for. Remember thinking...I remember those!

**scumdog** · 31st July 2007, 17:27

Can't remember the colours but had 'exempt' on my Triumph Herald AND my '55 F100 - had the stickers on my F100 until only a few years ago when a 'helpful' mate scraped them off.

T'was a pain in the arse wot with gas stations shutting on a Friday at 7pm and not opening until Monday 7am,

Try running 7+ litres (429cid) on a 45 litre (10 gallon) fuel tank - and on Labour weekend 1979 the gas station were shut for THREE days!! (Had to run around with bulk 4 gallon tins of gas)

**Krusti** · 31st July 2007, 17:33

The exemption was a white cross, that I know....

**Mom** · 31st July 2007, 17:34

Thats a mean thing to ask us to remember Hitcher, it is one thing remembering the whole carless days debacle but the colours????? We had Sundays as our carless day, had a bike shop to run and needed the ute for work days. Had a bike too so no real problems with getting about. I wonder if Sunday was yellow?

**Pussy** · 31st July 2007, 17:35

I can remember some Auckland university students had some printed up with "Yesterday" on them

**peasea** · 31st July 2007, 17:50

Carlos Daze? Wasn't he a Mexican guitarist?

**Hitcher** · 31st July 2007, 17:53

Colours please people, I need the colours. And I know about that Google search picture.

**Krusti** · 31st July 2007, 18:02

Ungrateful bugger..

**Laava** · 31st July 2007, 18:03

My mate had his low down on the right side of the screen so he could hang his arm out the window and casually put his hand over it!

**crashe** · 31st July 2007, 18:05

There was a green sticker, not sure what day it was thou.
There was also a blue sticker.

Hitcher - What about going to a old wreckers yard......
They will have some old cars still laying about.

There must be somewhere on record in some government department with what the colour's were and on what days as well.

**Pussy** · 31st July 2007, 19:06

The green sticker with a white cross was the "exempt". I had one because I started work before 0730. Wednesday was my carless day, can't for the life of me remember what colour it was