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13 UNUSUAL Old Car Features, No One Wants Anymore!
You Tube ^ | Feb 26, 2024 | America Before

Posted on 04/26/2024 5:58:07 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Mears

I’m glad that you’re still here with us.


41 posted on 04/26/2024 6:57:32 AM PDT by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

That’s actually a very clever mechanism. Mine, not so clever.


42 posted on 04/26/2024 6:58:42 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Responsibility2nd

My 97 Chev. C3500 Silverado Crew Cab(50,400) has CD, Cassette, Ash trays(4), and a Cigar lighter.


43 posted on 04/26/2024 7:00:44 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: Gaffer

Yep, me too!


44 posted on 04/26/2024 7:01:00 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Responsibility2nd
Ash Tray. I can’t remember a car recently that had one. .

the new standard is to just throw the ashes, embers and butts out the window where some blow back into your back seat and other leave little memories amongst the roadside tinder...

45 posted on 04/26/2024 7:01:11 AM PDT by KC Burke
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To: Tell It Right

Just be sure you don’t leave your box of Crayons on that rear shelf on a hot summer day. Dad was very unhappy with his newly decorated multi-color shelf.


46 posted on 04/26/2024 7:02:19 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: Fresh Wind

Is that what it was? A steering knob that cost him his eye? I thought it was some sort of a design on the center of the wheel where the modern-day horn button is now.


47 posted on 04/26/2024 7:03:05 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Sirius Lee

I well remember those Caddies, but not that alluring feature!


48 posted on 04/26/2024 7:05:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Fresh Wind

Per the Beacon Journal, the impact caused his face to hit the steering wheel, which featured a conical horn button in the center. Striking that protrusion popped his left eye out of the socket, fractured his face, and injured his back.

Read More: https://www.grunge.com/416943/how-sammy-davis-jr-lost-an-eye/


49 posted on 04/26/2024 7:05:35 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: 9YearLurker

“Foot operated radio station changer?

Ha! What decade?”


Early 60’s — we had two, an Olds Starfire convertible and a Buick 225 convertible (I drove Ms. America 1974 in it in the ‘77 Ms. Oregon Parade) it had a mirror to see the speedometer...you could change the angle of the mirror if you were short or tall (the actual speedometer was parallel to the earth) it was sorta clever.

A triple option tailgate with dual facing rear seats in the big family wagons...

We had a ‘59 Chevy that did not need a key - you just turned the knob that had a slot for the key (with the key in the slot the knob could be turned clockwise enough to lock it).

Automatic high-beams actuated by a small receiver on the dash or driver side fender top (NEVER worked well).

Crank starter...

AM radio with a front to back speaker fader...

Remote control outside mirrors controlled via a mechanical linkage...


50 posted on 04/26/2024 7:08:17 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Red Badger

Dash mounted cassette dictation recorder, complete with handheld microphone. Optional on some Chryslers in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s...

https://youtu.be/4_HEDwu6tPs?si=MBVie-XADOvq-kKR&t=647


51 posted on 04/26/2024 7:08:33 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Red Badger

We had a car that had push button shifting- I can’t recall now where the buttons were located, I think maybe the dash. I vaguely recall a rubber bladed fan too, butmigh5a been in a different vehicle

I miss my old “3 on the tree” steering column shifting, foot dimmer switch (although those eventua,.y wore out and could cause fires- was riding with a friend once and his truck carpet caught fire from the dimmer switch- the fumes were something else.

Miss the pull down bar on the back of the front seat (lol- dad was a mechanic who worked on a 12 cylinder jag if I recall right, that had a pull down bar in back- us kids would pretend to be rich folks being chauffeured around when my dad took it for a “test drive” (had to clean the carbon out by flooring it often) lol

He also worked on 2 DeLoreans that 2 brothers owned. Those were kinda neat.


52 posted on 04/26/2024 7:08:42 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

We had a 67 Buick Riviera with the fold down headlights (made the coolest sound when operated), and an extremely annoying speed alarm. That car drank fuel, loved driving it.
So sad when dad traded it in for a Plymouth Scamp (he had a 4 hour commute each day).


53 posted on 04/26/2024 7:09:14 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: KC Burke

*** the new standard is to just throw the ashes, embers and butts out the window where some blow back into your back seat and other leave little memories amongst the roadside tinder...***

Actually, the standard is not to smoke in the car. I wish that had been the case when my sister and I had to smell and smell like that crap hours after our parents made us inhale the smoke while all the windows were up when we were kids.


54 posted on 04/26/2024 7:09:24 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: Red Badger
Double-hinged rear doors on station wagons that pulled down or swung sideways.

In the 1960s, my family had the Ford Country Squire 6th generation with the "Magic Door" in the rear.

-PJ

55 posted on 04/26/2024 7:10:51 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: GMThrust

...an extremely annoying speed alarm...

My parents Electra had that, too............


56 posted on 04/26/2024 7:12:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: BBB333

Here’s that mirrored speedometer in a 1960 Buick:

https://youtu.be/4_HEDwu6tPs?si=VW0_6pr7sjdYJxoJ&t=1108


57 posted on 04/26/2024 7:15:17 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: GMThrust; Sirius Lee; Roadrunner383; Bob434

Anyone remember the ‘automatic’ headlight dimmers from the 60’s? They never worked and pissed off other drivers!............


58 posted on 04/26/2024 7:18:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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59 posted on 04/26/2024 7:18:58 AM PDT by deport
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To: Red Badger

That is part of the reason that they have around a hundred days of inventory sitting on dealer lots.


60 posted on 04/26/2024 7:20:52 AM PDT by Flying Circus
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