One can’t forget the joys of early car emission controls, and engines that would run on after you turned off the ignition. My friend had a Mustang II, it ran almost as well with the ignition off as it did with the ignition on. What a piece of crap!
Score Mustang II, boredom zero!
https://youtu.be/fJzrFJmJOJM?si=3IcLsjZM447dqHFX
They were basically re-bodied Pintos.
I don’t miss engines that dieseled like that. My first car (that was all mine) was a 1987 Thunderbird (which I still have) and fuel injection was a godsend.