I remember when cars had...

Does anyone remember the Nash models that had seats that folded down to make a sleeper? This feature ran from the early 40s into the 50s at least.

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My buddy had a 1966 Charger with the fold down flat rear seats. He found out he could put either a twin or full size mattress in the back.
 
CD and tape players, usually hooked up to maybe 4 no name brand paper cone speakers.

My first car ever comes to mind a 94 Saturn SL2. Speakers blew within days of me owning it, and tape player would not accept the tape to aux thing that we so popular at the time.
 

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That was called a package shelf. I drove from NYC to SF in a 1960 or so Dodge with such a shelf, and one of the passengers, a very small man (abt 18-19 yo) actually slept on it all thru West Virginia.
Wut ? I called them speaker shelves … they’d hold four 6x9’s with separation to boot 😎
 
Wut ? I called them speaker shelves … they’d hold four 6x9’s with separation to boot 😎
I'm sure people had different names for them, but they were in existence and used long before rear speakers were found in cars.
 
Retread tires for cars. Those were in tire-store ads until about the early 1980s.

The 5–digit odometers lasted in some new cars into the early 1990s. I briefly had a 1990 Ford Ranger that still had one. Wikipedia says the Ranger did not get a 6–digit odometer until the 1994 model year.
 
My second vehicle was 77 Chevy Silverado 2WD 350 with Rochester quadrajet carb. Had oval GM key for door and square key for ignition. I loved that high beam switch was like “button” on floor. Also, it had aftermarket cassette player. Nephews asked me while ago “uncle Adam, what is a cassette?” 🤣🤣
 
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