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To: Sirius Lee

We had a young guy at work here just bought a new car and he was bragging about how you started it with just a button push.

I told him that all cars previous to the 1960s had a button on the floor to start the car...........


15 posted on 04/26/2024 6:21:34 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: 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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