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Do you remember? (Car gadget quiz)

Friday, 24 March 2017, 13:45 BFH Uncategorized 61

Most people on this site won’t even feel like this is a quiz, that’s how embossed into our memory these car gadgets are.

But show them to your kids, or grandkids, and you might get a look of bewilderment.

Can you identify what these things are?

HT/ Annie

Here are the answers.

61 Comments on Do you remember? (Car gadget quiz)

  3. A math teacher in high school had a Lincoln Continental, which he says was Nixon’s 1968 campaign car although he could never get the Secret Service to give him a letter acknowledging it. When we rode to math meets (because I did that) we would joke with the new kids about the power adjusting headrests. Which it had. It also had that button on the floor – but it was the radio search function.

  4. In Order:
    drink holder/ glovebox lid, car jack slot, colostomy bag?, window crank, concealed headlights, hidden gas cap, high beam foot-button, horn, old “new-style shoulder seatbelt”, automatic “new-style” should seatbelt, manual punched presets, smoking-vent window crank.

  5. When my son turned 18 in 2004 he bought a 1979 Chrysler. I had to tell him what all those knobs and buttons were for and how to set stations on the radio. It was one of those “Gee, do I feel old” moments.

  7. A bud had a Chevrolet Corvair that had a rubber boot you would depress with your foot to dispense windshield washer solvent …. only his pumped Jack Daniels through a hose out the dashboard – maybe it was a Vermont thing ….

  8. And on the other hand, rented a car recently and could not figure out how to open the trunk to put my luggage in. Key fob only.

    Then I couldn’t figure out how to open the fuel filler door. Fortunately the manual was in the trunk, which I could then open.

    I felt like an idiot.

  10. Hell, most don’t even know what a clutch is now a days.
    How about a pedal on the floor that engages the starter gear?
    No Bendix, a gear, a forked lever and an electric contact, after you pulled the manual choke and depressed the gas with your heel while you pressed the starter with your toe.

  11. PHenry — haaha! yup, we rented a tiny car last year on a trip and everything was key fob enabled. Frankly, I don’t like the idea. I wasn’t interested enough to find out if everything the fob ran could be manually enabled if you lost your key. What a terrifying thought.

  14. Window cranks, dimmer switch, push-button radio, hidden gas cap, “cup holders” and much more all standard equipment on my 70 Nova SS. Bought new, still in my garage. 🙂

  16. I have a couple Holley Double pumpers on a shelf in the garage and I’ve had several of my sons friends ask what they were. They have no idea what headers are either. Sad.

  17. “hey! where’s the fucking 8-Track tape player?”

    In the dash of my 1978 Chrysler.

    —-

    When they started putting the dimmer switches on the tree instead of on the floor, there were a rash of new-car crashes in my old town. People kept getting their feet tangled up in the steering wheel.

  18. Ah yez, the Ford enema bag, brings back memories.
    My first car was a ’58 Impala with the floor boards completely rotted out, the headlight buckets too – they bounced up and down when I hit a bump. I bought it for $25.

  22. Still own a dwell/tachometer and a timing light. I don’t know why. Just can’t bring myself to toss them. All my vehicles are now electronic ignition and fuel injectors.

  23. Unique radio placement… What is the best car ever offed for sale?

    The 1969 Galaxie 500 & LTD is the answer. The reason is that the radio was to the left of the driver and if anyone tried to mess with it the driver could take a bite out of the dirty motherfucker’s arm

  26. without looking
    cup holders

    pass

    pass

    wing window handle

    roll over out headlights

    gas tank

    bright lights floor button

    steering wheel column mounted turn signal and horn

    seat belt

    seat belt, standard engine stick, brake, clutch, gas peddle, AC vent,

    AM FM radio station select buttons

    window up down handle

  27. I drove two Renault R5’s with that horn stalk. In fact, I still have one of them. The horn stalk, not the R5.

    BTW, the geniuses at Renault accomplished front wheel drive not by mounting the engine sideways, but by turning the engine 180 degrees and sticking the transmission between the front wheels. You needed two universal joint socket connectors to get up under the dashboard to change spark plug #1. Otherwise fun car, pretty reliable.

  28. The brights switch on the floor was 100 times more convenient than today’s on the column. Plus, it lets you keep both hands on the wheel. Don’t know why they over-engineered that one. They had it right to begin with.

  32. Where’s the cigarette lighter and ashtray full of butts? That’s how my parents rolled. They also put their arm in front of me when stopping quickly while the seat belts were tucked away in the seats.

  33. Studebaker “Hill Holder”. Only had to floor one pedal on a hill rather than both the clutch nd the brake. Loved those Studebakers! Handled better than most if not all of the American peers, very fast, economical, reliable and, in the mid ’50s the best looking considering the Lowey designs. I used to race a friend in his father’s XK 140 on back roads and he never could get away from me. Of course, I was crazier than he was…

  35. eternal, I STILL put out my right arm when I stop suddenly (reflexive behavior, can’t avoid it). And now another oldie–I remember when radios were AM only, no FM, and we had to ‘roll the dial knob’ to change stations.

  38. @Irony – salt soaked snow on the bottom of boots killed the floor dimmer switch. It rotted the switches out.

    @ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ – had a ’62 Chrysler 300 convertible with the push button tranny. Nothing but problems with it. Of course that was back in the day when the only shit a tranny gave you was related to gears, not queers.

  40. One radio speaker in the top of the dash so the sun could rot it out

    Dad had the canvas shoulder belts folded neat and tied up with paper clips above the doors; if you reached for them he’d yell at you.

    Snap-off, one-length antenna on the fender

  42. I got one wrong! Not because I’m too young though.

    I was going to add a comment about it at the floorboard looked awful damn nice for that feature. That should’ve been my tip off.

    I thought the dimmer switch was a starter button on the floor

    I guess I got it wrong because I’m too old, not too young

  43. @Moxie, it was cool blowing smoke out the car then turn around see your kid covered in ash and coughing then threaten, “don’t make me pull this goddamn car over.”

  46. My first Car was a 73 Gran Torino Brougham….that I purchsed for $300

    in 1979…I had to make weekly payments to My Dad …$35.00

    It was Mint green and ugly, but it had the 351 Cleveland..and would

    haul ass.

    It also had “Front Brake Lights” Which People thought was a wiring

    fault, but then I showed them the Ford Brochure from the Glove Box

    “Newest innovation in Safety” Also had the Rim blow Steering Wheel

    Horn..I also had the Cassette Player that inserted into the 8 Track

    Player …That was touch and go on reliability .

  47. My Dad had a Fiat 128 Sport Coupe, 1975. On the rare occasion that it wasn’t in the shop, it was a fun, zippy car. It had a knob you could pull out called ‘throttle’. I’m wondering if this was Fiat’s version of cruise control.

    Fix It Again, Tony!
    Funny, but that was no joke!

  49. i had an eject button in my 63 leMans.

    Ok, it wasnt an eject button, but if shotgun rider wasnt hanging on tight enough on a sharp left turn, he got ejected.

  51. @flip: Obviously you must remember reading this directive:

    TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
    6805 N. LAMAR BLVD. – BOX 4087
    AUSTIN, TEXAS 78773-0001
    Date: April 29, 1999

    TO: All Texas State Safety Inspection Stations
    FROM: Texas Department Of Public Safety
    SUBJECT: Automobile Headlight Dimmer Switches

    1. Pursuant to Texas Department Of Motor Vehicles Act DMV 294-76892.90, all motor vehicles sold in the State of Texas after September 1, 1999 will be required to have the headlight dimmer switch mounted on the floorboard.

    The dimmer switch must be mounted in a position accessible to operation by pressing the switch by the left foot. The switch position must be far enough removed from the other foot pedals to avoid inadvertent operation-of-pedal confusion.

    2. Included in the above act, and beginning on January 1, 2000, all other vehicles with steering column mounted dimmer switches must be retrofitted with a floorboard
    mounted dimmer switch of the type described above. The steering column mounted dimmer switch must be disabled or removed. Vehicles which have not made this change will fail the Texas State Safety Inspection.

    3. It is recognized that this requirement will cause some hardship for the driving public. However, this change is being made in the interest of public safety. Texas DMV
    Act 294-76892.90 will revert all Texas motor vehicles to the prevalent dimmer system in use prior to the influx of foreign market vehicles. A recent study entitled “Initiation

    Sequence In Texas Nighttime Highway Traffic Accidents”, was conducted jointly by the Texas Department Of Public Safety, The Texas Department Of Motor Vehicles and The Transportation Research Department Of The University Of Texas. It has shown that 95% of all Texas nighttime highway accidents are caused by an Aggie getting his foot caught in the steering wheel.

    🙂

  52. Way too old. Knew all of these.

    Loved sitting the front seat between my parents and seeing the Indian Head light up on the dash when my dad hit that floor button.

    My first car was a manual, no AC, crank windows, a radio with a single speaker and 4 buttons to program AM stations and 2 buttons to program FM stations. Long before 8 track or cassette.

    It got me from point A to point B. After all, that’s the point.

  53. Quite a few gas caps were behind the rear license plate back then, I smoked many a cigarette as I passed gas there while going to school. The cup ‘holders’ in the jockey box cover were state of the art.

  60. They had both starter buttons and dimmer/brights
    buttons on the floor.

    How about the right hand transmission shift lever
    on the steering wheel column? That was a bitch to
    drive.

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