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What have you got to lose, except time.
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I’d say an 8 track player or the dimmer switch on the floor but let’s go with this one.. as seen in my husband’s truck.
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It’s one of my spouse’s favorite features and I swear he keeps buying old trucks because the new ones don’t have it.
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It’s that triangular corner window that acts like a directional air conditioner… at least in Maine where the air is usually cool.
He seriously loves these things and if you’ve ever ridden in an older truck you know they can force some serious air.
How about you…
What’s unrecognizable in your old vehicle?
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River's world..... 
The floor hump.
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Ah, yes. The ubiquitous hump…
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Three speed on the column
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Soon to be joined by the clutch
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Not quite yet…
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At 13 my car has a CD player/AMFM Radio
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Wow. I must be truly ancient if CD players are considered old and unrecognizable.
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They are in cars of today, heck my 19 year old has never owned a CD he grew up on streaming music
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My car is a 2018 model with a radio and inputs for digital media. Asheville radio sucks goats for beer money so I couldn’t wait to get an unlimited data plan, just for music. The stereo is better than it needs to be, considering all the ambient noise inside the car.
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I was referring mostly to the CD player
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AC never felt as good as a wing window 🙂
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I would love to have one of those wing windows. Definitely better as far as airing and less noise.
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We called them “butterfly” windows up here — i never heard of a “wing” window! 😇
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Butterfly windows?
I love that!
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Canadians have better imaginations thzn Americans, at times…
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That’s what my husband says.
🙂
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The Moon Roof that doesn’t open.
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Ha! Or doesn’t close… which was even worse.
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AKA a vent window.
People also don’t recognize a button on the floor under your left foot.
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Dimmer switch. Yup.
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A cigarette lighter, you know those dangerously hot, spiraled coiled things that got hot once you pushed them in. I remember the dimmer switch or high/low light switch on the floorboard, as my dad called it.
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Deadly little things, yes.
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Can anyone remember a rumble seat? I’ll let you look it up if you don’t.
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Wow. I know what it is, and have seen them. But never actually ridden in one..
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My older brother bought a car with a rumble seat in about 1956. It was the perfect car for going to the drive-in.
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The two little circles with a triangle in them on the AM radio dial. A manual choke. 8 track player. Swamp coolers that fit into the door windows. Lakers.
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The car I learned to drive in… a ‘62 Ford Falcon.. had a manual choke. That was a tricky little bastard.
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Oh, everyone is in the cab! Let’s try under the hood! A distributor cap and a carburetor would be completely foreign to anyone under 40.
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I’m afraid everything under there has always been unrecognizable to me.
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The bragging’s just not the same. Mention your Holley 4150 double pumper carb, Edelbrock high rise ram air intake or Detroit locker rear end and wait for the crickets.
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With the advent of EV’s, we are just a generation away from dumb stares when we mention spark plug wires, throttle bodies, torque convertors, pistons and fuel injection.
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Internal combustion, what’s that?
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It sounds like some kind of gastric distress.
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Internal combustion is what occurs when the Yogurt you had for breakfast meets the refried beans w/tacos you had for dinner the night before.
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Sounds about right.
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I feel like this thread has taken a wrong turn…
🤣🤣🤣
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The windows in my 30 year old car must be rolled up and down manually….but I suspect there many more things in new cars I wouldn’t recognize or know how to use than there are such things in my car that young people wouldn’t recognize (or maybe not).
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I don’t miss those!
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Handles to roll down the windows. Also locks that you could only lock and unlock by hand.
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I remember those days.
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Not on the inside, but antennas.
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Definitely a thing of the past.
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I’m disqualified. Our oldest car is 3 years old and both cars are like driving spaceships.
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You’re excused.
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