Posted on 02/14/2014 11:09:59 AM PST by EveningStar
It's hard to picture what today's teenagers will wax nostalgic about 30 years from now when they reminisce about their first car. (It still required gasoline, perhaps?) Who knows how automobiles will change in the future; what we do know is how different they are today from 30 or more years ago. If you fondly remember being surrounded by two or three tons of solid Detroit steel with a whip antenna on the front from which you could tie a raccoon tail or adorn with an orange Union 76 ball, and enough leg room that you didn't suffer from phlebitis on long road trips, then you might also miss a few of these.
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Here’s a feature that today’s cars dont have:
Windows.
The cars I grew up with had ‘em. Lots of large easy to see out of windows.
Todays cars? Most come standard with back up cameras and lane change warnings. Why?
BECAUSE YOU CANT SEE OUT OF THE DANG THINGS.
(I’m on a rant here. Bear with me.)
Todays cars (Yeah, Chrysler 300, I’m taling about you) have tiny little gun slits for windowss. Others have HUGE C and D pillars that make it impossible for you to see outside the car unless you totally rely on mirrors.
The Ford Escape was a great looking SUV. Large square windows that made it easy to drive and to park. Then Ford screwed it up and now Escapes are slopers with poor visibility. And (HA HA!) their saels are down.
/rant off.
My 63 rambler had vacuum powerd wipers. In seattle this REALLY sucked.
It also was a three on the tree and had a big plunger lever attached to the bottom of the dash. Over 35mph you would pull it out about8 inches and it gave you overdrive. Below that speed if you let your foot off the gas the car would coast as if in neutral, IIRC.
Station wagons with rear facing back seats, hell we don’t even have station wagons anymore.
What did you use for the rim?
My 2001 Chrysler 300 had a full size spare on an alloy wheel that matched the others.
Things you don't miss now that they are gone: the Landau roof
Man, I’d completely forgotten about vent windows! I always thought those things were cool as a kid.
One not mentioned, but something that’s not all that common in these days of front-wheel drive cars: having to be the kid who got to sit on the “hump” in the middle of the back seat. That’s one thing I don’t miss!
Manual choke, but don’t forget the sucker in choke once it warms up, burns a little more gas :)
I would like ROOM for a full size spare - I’ll buy one myself if they don’t provide it as an option.
Growing up, my parent had a Ford Country Squire with that. I loved it. Trying to get one.
The trunk of my brother’s ‘73 Ford Galaxy could contain two steel garbage cans, full of ice standing upright, when preparing for a college party.
When driving her car, I often blind oncoming drivers while trying to dim the headlights.
Oh they still have them, but when I use mine it seems to only signal other drivers to speed up and block me.
My 2013 Kia has audible turn signals. Not sure what that item is about.
At new car auto shows, I’ve tried sitting in the back seat of some of those cars, my head touches the rear window. Can’t be safe for riding, let alone getting in an accident.
Not as long as there are sports cars and econoboxes.
I only like bench seats and do not have them now.It wasn’t until after I bought my present car that I realized how much I missed them.
No bench seats,no new car.
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Were your car’s headlight lenses fogged over on that one? It’s not unique to that model, but those 300’s (300M, right?) seem to have about 100% compliance with fogged over lenses.
I don't know nuthin' about no gay guys, but I have fond memories of my 1966 Rambler Classic station wagon with front bench seat that folded all the way back to meet the rear bench seat. ;)
1: Cigarette lighter.
2: Radio antenna.
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