10 Once Commonplace Items You Can't Find In Cars Anymore

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[TexasRepublic]

“Ah, I remember the clear vinyl seat covers that would heat to roughly the temperature of molten steel in the sunlight at the beach, and then you’d sit down on it with nothing but your bathing suit on...”

Back in the early 1960s some of those bench seats had decorative metal buttons which heated up like branding irons. I had to drape a towel over the seat when riding to the swimming pool.

[IamConservative]

Hand choke. I don’t know if completely true or not, but my Grandfather used to tell me Granny (his mother) hated their first car that had an automatic choke because she didn’t have anything to hang her purse on (implying she’d pull the choke out and hang her purse on it.)

[ExGeeEye]

You had a Citation! (Or were there other X-Body models...)

[cyclotic]

265,000 miles and original clutch. That’s all I’m saying.

[IYAS9YAS]

265,000 miles and original clutch. That’s all I’m saying.

Yeah, I never had problems, either. He was talking about bushings in the transmission itself. I had a Muncie, I think it would have run without oil, let alone me holding onto the shifter...

[Heart-Rest]

Wow, that's an old classic car commercial!

Here's another one:

   1960s Texaco Jingle

[Heart-Rest]

Dentists sure miss hand-crank cars.
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Now that is painful even to just think about!

[Heart-Rest]

Don’t forget the wooden wheels and the mechanical brakes (rear only)!
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Not too many horns like this around in cars any more, either.

   1923 Model T Ford Aaoogha horn

[Secret Agent Man]

Lotsa smashed jaws and noses from those cars.