I’m old enough to have owned a car with one of these:
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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i'm old enough to have owned a truck that had one of those that was also a manual transmission.
That’s the point. This is three on the tree. Not an automatic column shifter.
What was yours? Mine was a 70s F150. When we rebuilt it, we converted it to a floor shifter. I miss the days when you could just pull out a torch and cut a hole in your floorboards and make such an adjustment
‘72 Bronco. Wish I still had it. They go for stupid money these days.
Nice! My favorite was my 1976 Chevy Blazer. Same. However, my dad is a hoarder, and I can still see it in the field behind his house on Google Earth.
Aw, poor car. Probably cost too much to rebuild.
yeah, especially since it's been on its side for about 20 years and is now at least halfway buried. oh, and he sold the motor long ago.
Ugh. Cheaper to start with one half-fixed up than deal with that.
Yeah. That route also doesn't require me to speak with a Qanon MAGA crazy person.
Not many cars are worth that.
maybe the batmobile
The OG one.
obv
lol whoosh
This pic smells like hot glue and old french fries with an overlay of cig smoke.
My first car had one of these.
My dad's truck had one of these back in the day. The switch was super flaky so you'd either be stuck with low beams or stuck blinding oncoming traffic
When I was a young kid, and my parents didn't want me to fall asleep on the way home at night, they would tell me it was magic that they were changing the lights without moving their hands.
Anytime I see pictures like these I can smell the car after being closed up all day in summer.
bright lights foot switch. I miss it
O U C H
For the record, It most certainly did NOT always work...
I was going to say, memories can get seriously skewed.
Or, sometimes it worked, but the levers were incredibly stiff and you could skip arm day at the gym if you needed to adjust the climate controls very often.
Did it ever work? I thought they were just moral support levers?
Seriously, pneumatic climate control can eat my whole ass
Good news, there's a vacuum leak.
This was definitely the first thing that came to mind.
These were expensive decorations in the raised-roof Chevy
I'm this old.
Ah, the window for flicking cigarette ashes..
Pepperidge Farm remembers
I'm old enough to remember learning about these the hard way
Painful
if you are young, you probably have to drive a car this old if you own one
That's old, but how many here recall the old car radios where you manually set a station preset by pulling the selector out, then pushing it back in? I can't even find a picture of one because of the age and trying to find the right search words.
I wouldn't classify how it worked as simple though, still seemed like magic.
They were impressively simple once you understood the basic concept.
I'm so happy we moved away from this and toward three basic questions:
- Where do you want it?
- How hot do you want it?
- How hard do you want it?
That's basically what these do. What's the difficulty?
All thanks to your mom
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