[Buckeye McFrog]

Besides all of the above, there was actually a time when cars didn’t all have air conditioning, power windows and locks, and/or remote entry key fobs with alarms.

My first car was a 1971 Pontiac. No AC. Had those little triangular shaped vent windows up front. No carpeting, just black rubber material like a truck interior. No emission controls. Meaning I could actually work on it without first having to remove 600 miles of cable and tubing. Crank windows and key locks. AM radio. My first major upgrade was installing an FM converter.

And I was damned happy to have it.

[RegulatorCountry]

If you think about it, air conditioned vehicles make all the annoying cell phone blabbering while driving possible. Ever tried talking on a cell in a moving vehicle with the windows down? Inaudible on either end of the conversation. Would people sit in the heat in their cars blabbing, in traffic or in their own driveways? Doubt it.

[Boonie]

I bought a ‘70 Hemi Cuda in ‘71 when I returned from Vietnam...
Here is a 426 CI engine sitting in a small car and you could raise the hood and still see pavement beside the engine block...
Today, you could get a huge Cadillac with a 6 cylinder engine and not be able to see anything but cables, hoses, wires, and filters under the hood.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"My first car was a 1971 Pontiac. No AC. "

We used to call that AC the 255 model. Two windows down and going 55 miles an hour....

[latina4dubya]

And I was damned happy to have it.

did it have power steering?

[markman46]

my first car was a 67 dodge dart 3 on the tree slant 6, learned to change the point n plugs and oil, ran like a tank no AC or power steering