One of my favorite bumper stickers of all time says: “A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.” Oh how true it is. There are so many clever bumper stickers (and even more that aren’t so clever), that I enjoy. It makes the drive to work interesting, doesn’t it?

So when exactly did bumper stickers originate? Obviously, it had to be sometime in the 1900s, since bumpers didn’t exist until the car was introduced. Interestingly enough, I’ve discovered that they actually did not start with the advent of the first car. The Ford Model T did not actually have any bumpers. It wasn’t until the Ford Model A rolled off the assembly line in 1927, that bumpers were found on cars.

The history I’ve found is not verified, but anecdotal history provided by bumprstickrz.com and Wikipedia relates that bumper stickers were originally “flag like”, and attached to bumpers by using wire. It wasn’t until Forest P. Gill, a silkscreen printer from Kansas City replaced wire attachments with pressure sensitive adhesive that bumper stickers became more widespread and “practical.”

PrintMyThing has a whole section of its website dedicated to helping you print your own custom Bumper Stickers. Be sure to visit! And just out of curiosity, would you leave what some of your bumper stickers say in the Comments section? I’d love to see what strikes a chord with you!