During one of my many junkyard trips, I spotted a Crusher-bound Chevy truck with an “EAT’N FORDS/SHIT’N RAMS” window sticker. It wasn’t really worth a separate post here on TTAC, but I figured it would be good for a laugh on the Murilee Martin Facebook page. So, I posted it with the comment “This truck will be GET’N CRUSHED” pretty soon.” Next thing you know, a bunch of my miscreant car-writer friends jumped in with their own versions. Within a few weeks, this meme may well be a bigger online car meme than VTEC JUST KICKED IN YO and the debilitating skabsession, combined!
Chevy versus Ford versus Chrysler, ho hum. But creative inspiration sometimes springs from unexpected sources.
Davey G. Johnson (he happens to be the guy who launched my automotive-journalism career by recommending that Jalopnik hire me back in ’06) got all puffed up with Porsche 914 pride— he owns one of those Transporter-engined crypto-Porsches and persists in believing it’s a good car— and created this Fiat-hatin’ design.
Then, Davey made this.
But what about the rivalries of the Prohibition Era? If only cheap vinyl-cut decals had existed back then…
Naturally, I had to jump in with my own creation. Metro pride, y’all!
But what about Iran Khodro owners? They must feel superior to those lamers driving SAIPA 141s in Tehran.
And, well, things just went downhill got better from there.
Our own Sajeev Mehta feels pretty strongly about the Premier Padmini and wanted everyone to know it. What would Vishnu drive?
Sajeev wasn’t done then, though; here’s a sticker that electron-fueled types might use to diss internal-combustion fools.
Then Davey’s coworker Blake Z. Rong Brendan McAleer got into a Canadian frame of mind and made this.
Canadian cars, you say? Tom Anderson of Sub5Zero knows that Asüna rules the Great White North.
Steven Cavalieri, the artist responsible for all those 24 Hours of LeMons T-shirts and posters you see in the more disreputable garages, jabbed jumper cables into his cerebellum and created this nightmarish image— it strays quite a bit from the meme, but so what?
About that time, Texas LeMons racer Dave Mulvey joined the party, as did many others.
LeMons Assistant Perp and blissfully retired car journalist Nick Pon couldn’t contain himself after that, and I think this one may just edge out the Duesenberg EAT’N/SHIT’N decal for the best yet.
Nick remains traumatized by his experiences at various German press-launch events, and so he created this. Check the gallery for even more creations, and be sure to create your own!
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This brings me back to the DAF vs. FAF days when automotive memes were created, then subsequently beaten to death by the very same men who created them.
Well done, I nostalgia’d hard.
Wait, where am I? How did I get here? I’m WHERE!?
It’s like I’m reading the Jalopnik of 5-6 years ago…and I love it.
‘sup
…who’s this new “Wert” guy?
DAF and FAF? You may be interested in my Goggomobile sticker…
Also, that’s MY Manic GT badge!
EAT’N Detroit Electrics
Woods Dual Power
SHIT’N Owen Magnetics
Besides, the Woods Dual Power may have had the coolest logo/badge of any car ever.
blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/03/21/hybrid-from-a-time-of-transition-the-1916-woods-dual-power-model-44/
What should I put on my Leaf – “Eat’n Volts, Sh$t’n Sparks”?
These things are ridiculous.
That’s so good, you’re obligated to do it and post pics.
They’re not quite as bad as all of the Calvin wizzing on things: Chevy, Ford, Dodge.
My brother has a tattoo with the Chevy bowtie thingy. In the middle of the bowtie is a rebel flag. It says Chevy Rules/Ford Sucks around it. You know the first car he had after getting the tattoo? A 93 Escort. My mom and I could’t resist hassling him about it.
Shit’n i-Mievs, surely?
Oh my Lord! A reference to the misbegotten Chrysler TC by Maserati! Talk about a nightmare image.
Allante, TC, Reatta… sad times for the Detroit luxury coupe.
Reatta wasn’t so bad, just pointless.
VOLVO:
Eatin’ Koenigseggs
Shittin’ Saabs
In Brazil it’d pretty much go:
Fiat
Eat’n VWs
Shit’n Chevies
Or any combination thereof.
On the back of an Amish buggy in East Ohio, you’ll see:
EAT’N Haflingers
Standardbred
SHIT’N Draft Horses
SLX: EAT’N QX4s, SHIT’N Bravadas
Achieva: EAT’N Mystiques, SHIT’N Breezes
ZDX: EAT’N X6s, SHIT’N Jukes
B9 Tribeca
EAT’N CROSSTOURS
SHIT’N AZTEKS
EAT’N LeMans’s
Festiva
SHIT’N Spectrums
Seems like a good time to change my TTAC avatar.
Epic.
Just when you thought TTAC had become all super serious snarks and trolls, here comes Murilee.
EAT’N SNARKS
Murilee Martin
SHIT’N TROLLS
Thanks for cheering me up.
SUCK’N LEMONS
OLDSMOBILE
SHIT’N EDSELS
This is too esoteric for me, so footnotes might help?
“But what about Iran Khodro owners? They must feel superior to those lamers driving SAIPA 141s in Tehran.”
Right on the money, although I’d say Samand owners (comes from IKCo).
Not to forget the source:
Eatn’ Lightnin’
ROCKY BALBOA
Crappin’ Thunder
(Hat tip to the late Burgess Meredith)
Along the lines of this topic, and always made me chuckle:
(On diesel-powered Ram Trucks)
“I’d rather be Cummin than Strokin\'”
Eat’n Pontiacs
Saturn
Shit’n Hummers
I work in public transit, so here goes:
EAT’N ORIONS
New Flyer
SHIT’N NOVAS