At one time, the humble mud flap or splash guard were nothing more than truck and auto accessories of thick black rubber, meant to protect your truck from stones, dirt and other debris thrown up from the road. Over time, mud flaps have gone from functional truck and car accessories to a pop culture form of self-expression.
The most iconic of these truck and car accessories characters is simply known as “The Mud Flap Girl”. We‘ve all seen her before: She’s the buxom silver silhouette of a long-legged beauty lounging with one leg provocatively crossed over the other, hair blowing in the wind. Bill Zinda of Wiz Enterprises in Long Beach, California, created this famous character to promote his line of truck and auto accessories and based the character upon a famous model named Leta Laroe.
Another famous character to make an appearance on these truck and car accessories is Yosemite Sam pointing his two cartoon pistols with a caption beneath declaring, “Back Off!” or, “All Fired Up”. Other Warner Brother characters have also made appearances, such as a frightened Daffy Duck and an overly upset Tweety Bird.
These mud flap characters are so engrained in our psych that they have gone beyond truck and car accessories and began appearing in commercials together. One famous commercial created for the Superbowl in 2006 had the Mud Flap Girl and Yosemite Sam driving away in a Honda Ridgeway.
Sadly, it appears that both of these figures have been targeted by legislation, when officials in Arizona tried to pass a ban on the two icons on the grounds of political correctness (one promoting sex and the other promoting gun violence). For the time being, the legislation on these truck and auto accessories has been struck down.
As long as that law doesn’t pass, you can find quality auto accessories and mud flaps that can have anything on them from your favorite sports team logo to the picture of your dog.
Self-expression isn’t a reason to sacrifice quality auto accessories anymore. You can find many manufacturers who can produce a mud flap to your vehicle and personality type. Whether you want a skull and crossbones or the Ghost busters logo, mud flaps can be created with top-of-the-line materials to let you “keep on truckin’”.
The most popular use of custom mud flaps nowadays are for company vehicles. If you’ve ever been caught behind a large semi on the highway, or maybe stuck in traffic behind a moving van, you may have noticed that mud flaps are an effective advertising tool. Most companies spend a little extra in this truck and auto accessory to manipulate their vehicles to carry the company name and phone number on mud flaps.
There is a lot to be said about these protective rubber truck and car accessories hanging off the back of someone’s truck or car. Truck and auto accessories have never been so versatile, useful, and smart as mud flaps. Choose your design, spruce up your truck, and head on out to show off your style!
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how to legally use a trademarked logo?ok, i hope this all makes since and that someone here is able to help me out. so here is the question
if i want to design a new product that uses a currently trademark/official licensed logo how would i do so. i am not looking to "steal" or "take away" money from another company. infact, doing this the right way could even increase the profit margin of the company/companies that currently hold rights to the logo. basically what i want todesign is an automotive accessory that requires the use of a current product that would be modified using a current auto manufacturers logo. i assume that if i was able to sell my product to a company to mass produce profits would be divided somehow between myself, the manufacturing company, and the company currently holding rights to the logo. any help is much appreciated…….thanks a lot
to help with my issue i would like to add another question. am i able to go ahead and design my product with the logo, get a patent on it (patent on the product design only not the logo), and then expose it to the manufacturers with the understanding that in lieu of me buying the license they are able to pull in revenue from the sales of the product of course with all contracts being negociated
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#1 by Kristy T on August 11, 2009 - 7:54 pm
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