Another vote for round sealed-beam headlights!
Old Auto Tech That You LIKE?
- Thread starter Jay Freddy
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Transmission dipsticks.
On anything but a small Chevette size car, try and roll up the right window from the drivers seat. Or the rear windows for that matter. Something mechanical that stops the engine cold is more likely to happen than a window motor dying. I'll drive a car without a radio before one without power windows.
You gotta admit, there'd be no flimsy, coated mylar reflectors to deal with, though I have no problem with inserting the likes of halogen bulbs into a reflector. I've commented on the wild shapes of "LED lightshows" in the grilles and tails of cars and how we get so little for our money.
Think of it. Wurlitzer Juke Boxes with lighted, bubbling alcohol tubes give way to '60's light boxes with lenticular lenses and panels (real cheap rock & roll era stuff) -which I think were rendered irrelevant by laser light shows.
We have been bombarded with more screen, billboard, scoreboard and visor image systems than we can count.
Cell phones are >$1,000 items now.
...and they give us flashy, heavily designed LED front ends on cars.
When will we tell these bozos that we don't need or want to buy their flash? We're so weak and silent.
Just to be clear, I don't like light steering at all, regardless of how it is powered.
Unfortunately, too many of today's electric rakenpinyan (rack and pinion) steering systems are completely devoid of road feedback or feel.
My recently destroyed Ford F150 hydraulic rack had plenty of road feel. Steering wheel feedback was obvious when driving against the curb, bombing Florida Sinkholes, or driving down the stairs at the local park. (kidding of course) . But I really could feel what the tires were doing on uneven pavement edges, or at the limit.
My 2004 Honda S2000 was supposed to have a magical electric rakenpinyan and I honestly felt it to be less than perfect. My current Jag F-Type "S" also has far less road feel than the old-school hydraulic system on my Jag X-Type. Although the steering effort and sensitivity are epic-good in performance mode.
1) Points
2) Mechanical fuel pumps
3) Draft tubes for crankcase ventilation
4) Stomp/foot starter
5) 26 grease points on a front end that will be shot by 40k miles regardless
Cars and trucks peaked in the early 50s, been all downhill since.
2) Mechanical fuel pumps
3) Draft tubes for crankcase ventilation
4) Stomp/foot starter
5) 26 grease points on a front end that will be shot by 40k miles regardless
Cars and trucks peaked in the early 50s, been all downhill since.
I think cars peaked Iin the '90s. The cars were technologically advanced and highly evolved but they were mostly not yet overladen with electronics and gadgets that have been weighing cars noticeably down and that have been making them increasingly complex since the 2000s.
Agreed 99%. The only exception I might make would be improvements in crash safety.
I miss the little trash cans on the passenger side floor, the rich soft pillow seats, front window vents, hood ornaments, emblems on the sides that were artwork and real names and gas filler in the rear so you can pull into any open pump. These are just a few lol
Fore sure.
Remember when ashtrays were the bragging points rather than the number of cup holders? My car’s got 10 ashtrays which is better than your 6!
Even worse, didn't one of the '60s imports run the wipers off compressed air in the spare tire?
If anything needs hand cranking around here I let my wife do it.
Ya know, I've got one in my F150, but prefer the flash-to-pass on a turn signal stalk that came out around 30 years ago. I don't think many people would reach for a dash mounted pull-for-lights headlight switch when it was time to signal a truck to pull into their lanes.
I think my Saturn SW1 had them, made by Guide, in an aero design. But don't bring back the sealed beam pattern-- those were two dim tunnels forward with little side lighting.
You can’t even joke about non-electric wipers being any good!
I do miss the simple cars of the eighties, like our pair of Honda Civic Wagons.
Carburetor, five speed manual, no steering assist, wind up windows and door locks powered by you.
Light enough that the modest engine output combined with the stick provided quite adequate performance along with really good handling.
Alas, young people can no longer experience this sort of car and driving.
Carburetor, five speed manual, no steering assist, wind up windows and door locks powered by you.
Light enough that the modest engine output combined with the stick provided quite adequate performance along with really good handling.
Alas, young people can no longer experience this sort of car and driving.
Floor dimmer switch.
Rear fuel fill under the license plate.
Large glove box.
Knobs for the radio.
Glass headlights.
Vertical hood ornaments.
Chrome, non painted bumpers.
Rear fuel fill under the license plate.
Large glove box.
Knobs for the radio.
Glass headlights.
Vertical hood ornaments.
Chrome, non painted bumpers.
I found sealed beam headlamps to be worse than useless; I always replaced them with either Cibie or Hella E-Code headlamps. The Cibie
5 3/4" H1 high beams I fitted to my 1973 Bavaria had an 8,600 foot reflective range. They were worth every penny.
