Full size spare tire
Horn ring
Full size spare tire
Horn ring
Leaded gasoline.
Air cooled engines
Separate keys for door/trunk and ignition
Pull out car stereo
Removable face car stereo
Three on the floor.
Car with no heater.
FM Converter.
Cup holder rings on the glovebox for those trips to the drive in.
Manual steering.
Printed maps
God I'm old after reading this thread. I've owned cars with everything mentioned so far.
I'll add real wood dashboards and steering wheels, not the applique that gets put on now. AM radio with a single center speaker, oil bath air cleaners, wing windows, and pickups where you can actually reach over into the bed...what a concept! Of course there is always a points distributor and generator instead of an alternator....
Oh, and that leads me to the list of spares you used to carry, such as brushes for the generator, voltage regulator, fuel line, and a head gasket...or was that just me? 
I've changed all of those on the side of road in my old Triumphs.
How about a car radio with mechanical station presets?
Also, a bumper jack.
Drum brakes
Batteries that needed to be filled and checked
Paint without clear coat
One speaker.....on the dash and AM only
racerdave600 wrote: God I'm old after reading this thread.
I think you guys should be happy! i'm 27 and i'm sad i won't be able to find cars with a lot of this anymore. My entire life will be spent in bloating cars with ASM, TCS, ABS, high belt lines, and likely automatic transmissions 
It was already hard enough finding a 2015 focus with a stick (non-ST) for SWMBO.
VW TDi clean diesel.
jstand wrote:joey48442 wrote:That surprises me, I'm not much older than you and my first car was a 1980 pickup with a 3 on the tree. My contributions: Floor mounted High/low beam switch Non variable speed wipers Vacuum operated wipers, retractable lights. Non-digital stereo Wing/vent windows Foot well vents instead of air-conditioningmad_machine wrote: Take your average driver, somebody between the age of just learned to drive and not yet able to buy beer. Now, let's see what this newly fledged driver has never seen in a car and will likely never see in a car in his or her lifetime. I will start.. Three on The Tree shiftingI'm considerably older, like 20 years older than your age group, and I've never seen a three on the tree, other than the occasional car show. Joey
My first car was a 1985 rwd Bonneville, it had the modern "pull the blinker bar" high beam switch. Man that car was comfy.
My oldest car was a 1980 rx7 with a carved wanker engine. It was awesome, but rarely ran right. It had the pull out choke.
Joey
Vacuum gauge, full size spare, dealer installed air conditioning.
Im 34. I have owned or driven everything listed in this thread.
When was the last time you saw/drove a car without a passenger side rear view mirror? I'm thinking it's been 20 years since such a car was made; I'm thinking stripped out econoboxes of the mid 90's (Tercel/Civic, etc.)
Last weekend, I was working on my '80 Honda. I set the points gap and ignition timing. I adjusted the choke cable and cleaned the carburetor.
These were all skills I haven't used in a very long time.
A car WITHOUT a single cupholder (the recesses inside the glove box don't count as cup holders)
On edit: or no 3rd brake light.
Real mechanical odometer that start back at 00000 when you reach 100,000 miles.
A gentleman's vent.
Pop-up Headlights.
2-knob car stereo (bonus points for Citation style vertical text).
And in about 3 months.. A birth year from the 1990's (that hurts)
Horn on the end of the stalk..
Turn signal on the center of the steering wheel (okay, that was a 1967 Healy BJ8)
Ash trays for rear seat passengers.
Landau and vinyl tops.
jstand wrote: Bench seats for the front are getting rare. Sealed beam headlights Dash mounted ignition or wiper switch.
I'm pretty sure all of these still exist, the first two are common on base model domestic work trucks, and dash mounted ignition switches never completely went away.
Sadly, ignition switches on the whole are on the way out.
David S. Wallens wrote: Landau and vinyl tops.
Good riddance!
Tape-on rear defrosters.
2-stroke motorcycles
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