Car phones were the cell phones of the time. Had to be professionally installed, and they were bulky and clunky. Not only that, but you had to hang homosexuals and adulteresses from cranes, instead of throw them off buildings, because the skyscrapers weren’t even vacant back then.
We had a ‘bag phone’ in the early 80’s. One of those like the first video cameras that came in a backpack/purse like bag you carried.