10 car features that are gone ..............funny

[westcoastGT]

These 10 car features took absolutely forever to die

 

[Chark]

Floor mounted high-beam button
Whip antennas
3 speed transmission
Non-power steering
Radial tires

 

[westcoastGT]

Floor mounted high-beam button
Whip antennas
3 speed transmission
Non-power steering
Radial tires

hand crank windows ??

 

[Kamauxx]

hand crank windows ??

I rented a moving truck last summer and my 9 year old couldn't figure out how to put the crank window down. He was baffled by the lack of buttons on the door.

 

[MerlintheMad]

hand crank windows ??

My '94 Voyager had them. My granddaughter had to ask how to lower the window!

 

[CaliSting]

Floor mounted high-beam button
Whip antennas
3 speed transmission
Non-power steering
Radial tires

There are still a couple non power steering sports cars left. Do you mean bias ply tires? Radials are still around.

Miss that floor mounted high beam switch although not so much with automatic high beams.

 

[KikoTheAkita]

Any station wagons left with a rear-facing third row seat? My family had one. We took a couple cross-country road trips, and as the youngest of 4 children, I was always relegated to the third row. So I got the see the USA in reverse.

 

[Stephen Brubaker]

Don't forget "Three on the Tree." That's how I learned to drive a manual transmission. It was my dad's Ford F-100 pickup. I think it was a 1961 model.

 

[TODDK]

I did not read article...just my $.02

Carburetors
Manual shift (harder and harder to find)
Points
Clutch fan for radiator
8 track/Cassette/CD player
Lap belts

 

[Chark]

Any station wagons left with a rear-facing third row seat? My family had one. We took a couple cross-country road trips, and as the youngest of 4 children, I was always relegated to the third row. So I got the see the USA in reverse.

Remember the Subaru Brat with the seats in the "truck" bed?

 

[CaliSting]

Ashtrays

 

[CaliSting]

Incandescent light bulbs

 

[CaliSting]

Throttle cables
Drumbrakes
Non-abs braking systems
Leaf springs
Car bodies and panels only made from steel
Telescoping steel radio antenna
Analog am/fm radios
Front bench seats in sedans
Steel hub caps
Manual cable driven speedometers with needles or odometers with old fashion number wheels
Steel or aluminum intake manifolds - most plastic now
Engines with no engine covers
Engines with air filter mounted on engine
Cars without airbags
Cars without brains
Steering wheels made of only wood and metal
Cars with reserve gas tanks. Wish that had not been lost
Analog clocks
Manual hood releases in luxary cars