You forgot the glory days of hand crank starting. Cars have never been the same since!
Well they usually had a friend or butler crank it so they had their own “starters” then...
Many single-seater race cars still use “hand crank starting”. They put a big crank into the flywheel, press a button to fire up the motor and it spins the crankshaft until the engine starts. Indy cars still start this way, as do F1 cars.