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Originally posted by coloradohunter44:
Fancy Cadillac had auto dimmer on dash.

Fancy still were the Cadillac with the auto-dimming headlights.

1. oil filter element inside a canister
2. suicide rear doors
3. push button on dash to start

I learned to drive in a 1946 Desoto, made 4 years before I was born.

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1. oil filter element inside a canister
2. suicide rear doors
3. push button on dash to start

1 and 3 are common on cars today.

I remember a lot of that.

When I learned to drive, my folks had a 66 Bug, a 66 Chrysler, and a 55 Ford F100. The 55 Ford had many of those "features". The dimmer was in the floor, and though there was a separate starter button from the key, it was on the dash.

It had a steering wheel that seemed 3 feet in diameter, and you had to double clutch between first and second.

Need to get a dual point distributor since I have a high performance engine.

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Originally posted by blueye:
Need to get a dual point distributor since I have a high performance engine.

Yes. Dual points in Chrysler 300 cars. Hard to get at the rear of the engine. Dual 4bbl carbs too.

Gullwing hoods.

6 cyl.

3 on the tree

still 6v w/ foot stomp starter

I’ve had cars with all the OP features except a rumble seat. Great times in them!

My first vehicle was a 1928 Ford pickup. Had many of those items. Manual clutch, timing adjuster on the steering column. No spark plug "wires", instead flat copper strips that ran from the distributor to the spark plugs. Paid 75 bucks for that truck. Left it home when I went in the army. The numb nuts at "home" were too freaking lazy to drain the block and it froze and cracked the block. Don't know where it ended up, probably sold as scrap.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
How many of you characters have ever driven a car with a 'Spark Advance' lever on the steering column? Now we're getting back in time....

48 Jeepster - no roll up windows.
At 16 yo - it taught me a lot.

I don’t know about a car, but as a young guy I had a Harley with spark on the left grip, springer front end, foot clutch and hand shifter on the left side of the tank. Still wish I had it now.

I don’t believe anyone has mentioned overdrive, an automatically activated 4th gear for a manual 3-on-the-tree transmission. Also provided free-wheeling.

And “ankle straps”. That’s what we teenagers called the grab loops on each of the C pillars.

I remember all of these. I actually bought a set of Portawalls to put on my 1950 Mercury (belonged to my dad actually.)

The first car I purchased was a 1958 Edsel Pacer convertible. It had the push button auto trans. Still own it, wish it was in driving condition.

The oldest car I have ever driven is a 1927 Chevrolet Touring Car. I didn't own it, a friend did.

I'm 75.

I forgot one of my most used luxury items - pulling a slide to open a floor vent beside your feet.

I remember most of them. I bought my first car in 1959 (a used 1953 Ford coupe). My first new car was a 1960 Falcon.

flashguy

I remember most of them (due to my father running his delivery pickups until they died) but I've never experienced a "tube" radios, non adjustable seats, nor rumble seats. I'm a little over 60.

How about a Hydramatic transmission with no provision for Park, had to set the hand brake everytime you parked the car, or Wonderbar Radio so you could change the channel with the press of a bar (search feature in my 54 Olds 98) or with the magical press of a button on the floorboard do the same, try oil bath air cleaners,

I remember when the DeSotos had curved plastic "horns" behind the rear seat to blow the a/c forward and not in the passenger's head.

However, when the a/c began to ice over after about 40 minutes, it would throw small bits of ice all the way to the windshield.

The car was my grandfather's and the first car I road in that had a/c.

My '55 Chevy had the dimmer on the floor and my first Porsche 356 was 6 volt.

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