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The unnumbered playing cards are humorous, odd, and informative all on the identical time. Every contains a colourful automobileicature on the entrance, with the identify modified barely to create a lampooned model of the actual factor, like Blunderbird (a feather-covered model of the Ford Thunderbird), Booick (a Halloween-themed Buick), and Stinkin’ Continental (a skunk-like Lincoln). You get the image.
The backs comprise three transient items of copy—Security Fax, a fill-in-the-blank sentence; Humorous Fax, a brief joke; and Automotive Fax, an automotive piece of trivia. Nothing on the again corresponds to the automobile on the entrance. On the Toybota (a Toyota boat), for instance, the Security Fax exhibits a drawing of a visitors sign, with a query mark inside the highest circle, and a cease signal. The copy subsequent to it reads: “Every of these items is named a _ _ _ _ gentle and a _ _ _ _ signal.” (Reply: Cease.) The Toybota’s Humorous Fax asks, “How is a automobile like a coal miner?” (They each put on headlights.) The solutions are discovered within the decrease proper nook of the cardboard, however they’re printed the other way up and backwards, so that you want a mirror—or a pointy thoughts—to decode them. Lastly, the Automotive Fax explains: “The world’s first sensible motorcar was the Benz Snug. It was made in 1895 and had three wheels.”
