Remember when

[billiebob]

add your own. keep it auto related but bring back those simpler times.

I'll start. Remember when power steering, power brakes were an option? Remember when you could not move the steering wheel before you let out the clutch?

 

[Squatch]

Remember when you had to wait for the tubes in the radio to warm up before you could get any sound?
Remember when you would tuck the seat belts down into the cracks of the seats to get them out of the way?
Remember when all the cars had red turn signal lenses in the rear (no amber lenses)?
(This is gonna be a great thread...)

 

[lowranger]

Remember when gas was 23 cents a gallon?

 

[05 Blue Unlimited]

Remember when you could not move the steering wheel before you let out the clutch?

No was it a Canada thing?

Anyway I remember the TV signing on in the morning with the test pattern and off a night with the National Anthem. Oh...and going from 3 channels to 4.

 

[lowranger]

Remember when the gear shift was on the steering column. "3 on the tree"

 

[TJDon]

Remember when you had to turn the car back around because you hung the corner to fast and the metal hub cap flew off and ya had to go back and get it

My first car. 67 Olds Cutlass Supreme. Big ol boat!


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[05 Blue Unlimited]

OH - the high beam switch was on the floor and a manual was 3 on the column.

 

[lowranger]

Remember when your Grandpa's car had "curb feelers" on it? Wasn't cool to have them on your car.

 

[lowranger]

OH - the high beam switch was on the floor and a manual was 3 on the column.

I wish they still made the dimmer switch on the floor. My wife and I were just talking about it yesterday.

 

[Alex01]

Remember the car VHS rewinder.

 

[Squatch]

Remember 4-door hardtops? Not 4-door sedans, but hardtops? Or the 4-door hardtop wagons?

 

[lowranger]

Remember when the old pickups had a starter switch you had to step on with your right foot to start it?

 

[billiebob]

Remember when all the cars had red turn signal lenses

that was the North American standard. European imports changed that.

 

[lowranger]

Remember when the guy at the gas station would wash your windshield, check your oil and the air in your tires?

 

[Kiwi TJ]

Remember when you had to double the clutch as there was no synchro between the gears. (no quick changing back then)
Remember Cross ply tyres (tires) and how much they gripped in the wet...or not haha

 

[billiebob]

Remember when the old pickups had a starter switch you had to step on with your right foot to start it?

half right. It was a foot swithch because the pedal pushed, engaged the starter gear before they used soleniods, then, at the bottom of the stroke the starter got power.

 

[TJ4Jim]

Remember when we had Vent Windows and Carburetors with a manual choke.

 

[BryanB]

OH - the high beam switch was on the floor and a manual was 3 on the column.

05 Blue Unlimited beat me to it. The high/low beam on the floor was the first thing I thought of.

 

[lowranger]

Remember when gas stations also worked on cars.

 

[Squatch]

Remember when the clutch and brake pedals came up through the floorboard, instead of hanging down from under the dash?