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Spending time around the old car, you realize that there were many common elements that anyone under 25 unless they hadn t experienced driving older cars on purpose.
At some point in the 1950s, car manufacturers have realized that the flat surface inside the glove box is an ideal place to put a cup of coffee piping.
Of course, the idea was that you were supposed to enjoy it while the car was parked at a scenic view, not barreling down the highway at 72 miles an hour on the diagonal tires and dodgy brakes.
It took only two or three generations of automotive design realize that a gently perched ceramic cup inside a depression 1 4 inches in the sheet of a glove box lid was not a t appropriate place to put scalding hot liquids.
taken bumpers were GM alternative to other brands scissor jacks Early versions had a giant hook that wrapped under the bumper, but this meant that all clod owning Ford could use a bumper jack a General Motors product.
From about 1973, catches have become specific GM, with a small projection hook into the outlet coupled to a vertical slot in the car bumper.
They worked well until the bumper inevitably rusty three years after buying the car.
In the 1960s when you bought a Ford product, instead of a bottle washer was glass until the early 1960s, you got a rubber bag with a nozzle in the background.
Filled with blue liquid, like AND colostomy bag.
When I had my son in my 1978 Blazer for the first time, we drove around for a bit and said, Dad, it's that I could not understand what he was looking until I realized he d never seen WINDOW CRANK.
In the United States, the 1950s through the 1970s, there was a round headlamp design Whether you have two or four.
To give the car a cleaner, look more distinctive, automotive designers began to put the headlights behind doors that looked like the grid Most headlights either electrically controlled, or vacuum, siphoned off the power brake booster in at least one case the Opel GT hidden headlights are manually operated via a giant lever under the dash.
In the 1960s and 1970s, one more aerodynamic headlamps designs have been offered throughout the world, but the parish US, we stuck with horrible sealed beams into the 1980s.
In the 1990s, when the Department of Transport has finally taken to the evolution of lighting in place when Nixon was still president, the Refuge Lighthouse era ended.
Stand at a gas pump for five minutes and you will witness a dozen people pulling into the gas station having no idea which side of the car the fuel load was.
It wasn ta problem until the 1980s, because most of the fuel loads were in the middle of Valencia back of the car, or hidden behind the license plate or a door to the rear cowling A few notable exceptions include the Dodge Charger, which was spring, chrome cap that sits on top of the left rear fender.
displaced fuel loads on each side of the car in the 1990s the idea was that the rise in fuel costs made the center more vulnerable to fire fuel tanks if the car was stamping.
We replaced the convenience of the central mounting fuel loads with a small arrow on the fuel gauge indicating the location of the load.
For most of the postwar period, the headlight dimmer in American cars was on the ground, so you can use the high beam without taking hands off the wheel Again, security issues have moved inverter to turn signal stalk, Ford experimented same to the horn for a short period of time.
In an age of concern about distraction, a floor-mounted dimmer may seem ready to return, but they had a fatal flaw their wiring is sensitive to salt followed inside the car in the northern United States, where snow falls.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the thinking was that most people weren not even wearing lap belts, so why bother coming with a shoulder belt would require a complex mechanism and block access to the back seat.
Manufacturers wanted to offer the option, however, they fold them and suspended from the roof trim with spring clips The shoulder belt then attached to a side of the abdominal belt buckle by a slot cut in the belt buckle on the shoulder, and a position of the loop of the lap belt.
Once manufacturers have decided that people die in their car was bad for public relations, they tried to encourage passengers to buckle before the laws and airbags mandatory safety belt, many manufacturers have experimented with motorized shoulder belts that have proven to be the most annoying security device from the ATTACH SEAT belt ring.
Manufacturers such as Honda have allowed a loop so you can turn off, leaving the motor mechanism shuttle impotently from one end of the opening of the door to the other.
I posted this image of the original radio of my 79 Blazer on my Facebook page the other day, and someone thought it was a cassette player because of the row of five buttons between buttons I had to explain that they were preset manual memory.
You dial in to the station of your choice, remove one of the five buttons and push all the way back to the station to It worked exactly as well as various schemes to save memory stations today.
Back when we were not concerned with aerodynamics Tso, we used to power cars and trucks with ventilation windows that provide some fresh air in the car without opening the whole window Some simply have pushed some, like this 1966 Impala SS cranked open, and some even down to the door.
For years, every car dashboard looked almost identical, with the radio, heat controls and everything in one place.
In the 1970s, we went a little crazy with the placement of things, ending with a crescendo in 1980, when the Chevrolet Citation happened with the radio turned on its side.
It was literally the same radio you to get in any other GM product in 1980, but someone went to the Load screen printing numbers of the indicator vertically, rather than horizontally They were ostensibly placed this way to save space, but radio and heat controls have exactly the same amount of space up and down as they would on the side.
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