My first car had crank out vent windows.
My first car had crank out vent windows.
Wood dashboards. No, not decorative wood veneer, but a dashboard made a of wood... with the gauges and switches attached to wood.
Five on the tree, ( I have driven a couple)
Rotary engines
Four on the floor
Push button overdrive on a manual
T tops
Rear facing 3rd row wagon seats
Jump seats
85mph speedos
fasted58 wrote: A child as a front seat passenger, Dad would extend his right arm across me in a hard braking situation.
I always referred to this as the "mom arm". Mine did that to me up until a few years ago when I informed her that smacking her 185 lb kid when she should be dealing with the emergency maneuver probably wasn't the best use of our energies.
Many of those things are gone forever (bias ply tires), but many will at least be understood by at least some people for a while. I'm 20, but I've owned quite a bit of whats in this thread.
Manual choke, sail windows, gentlemen vent, dealer option Ac, seatbelts that don't retract, separate keys for ignition and door.
They're not all gone, it just takes a special kind of stupid to still be willing to drive any of them today.
While most of these things are well and truly gone from new cars. The average auto in the US today is 11 years old which means there are a lot of them still out there.
My Miata is a '97 and has pop up headlights for instance. (and for some reason, kids absolutely love them)
KyAllroad wrote: My Miata is a '97 and has pop up headlights for instance. (and for some reason, kids absolutely love them)
Dude, kids buy old Accords because they have popup headlights.
Automatic transmission fluid that the manufacturer recommends to be changed at some point.
The only one that I can think of which hasn't been mentioned yet:
Vacuum operated wipers. That's fun.
I've driven most of these, and currently drive a car with dealer installed A/C, pop up headlights, and a bunch of other stuff even though it's not that old. I also DD'ed the truck with three-on-the-tree (and actually loved it), though I never have driven a car with a manual choke.
Oh, I just remembered another. Farmer cruise. Some of the older trucks had a knob on the dash. This knob advanced the throttle, but just a smidge. The idea was you'd leave the truck in it's granny gear, pull out the throttle, get out, and follow the truck through the field as you would load/unload stuff at your farm. I love this, I've actually considered getting the parts to retrofit it into the Tunatruck as that was an option in 1972.
Derick Freese wrote:KyAllroad wrote: My Miata is a '97 and has pop up headlights for instance. (and for some reason, kids absolutely love them)Dude, kids buy old Accords because they have popup headlights. Automatic transmission fluid that the manufacturer recommends to be changed at some point.
They love them because pop-up headlights are awesome.
What will the average new driver not see?
A car without Bluetooth connectivity
A car without stability control
VW diesels 
A car without power steering
A car without a built in data recorder
A car manufacturer without an electric product in it's line up.
A world without speeding cameras
Adrian_Thompson wrote: What will the average new driver not see? A car without Bluetooth connectivity A car without stability control VW diesels
Only for a minute. Then it will be: steering wheels, accidents, any driver involvement at all.
Before too much longer:
Dip stick for automatic transmission.
I'd have to say 'nope' to the 'drum brakes'- even our former 10-year-old Prius still had rear drum brakes (now 4-wheel drums, those have thankfully gone the way of the manual choke...).
This thread has been fun checking off how many things my different cars check off. 
How about cars with low hoods, low dashboards with shelves to store things and big side windows? Everything now looks like a machine gun pillbox to me.
If I recall correctly, this generation of Accord had a lower hood line than the Ferrari 308/328.
We had a 50s Dodge Lancer with a record player in the dash when I was a kid.
Everybody loves 80's Accords, lol.
Mechanical brakes.
Rufledt wrote: Something with a carburetor.
Something with multiple carburetors.
Some of you might be surprised at how basic the base model of a small car was even in the last 10 yeas, as a lot of this stuff applies to my 2005 Focus:
-Manual windows, manual mirrors, manual door locks, single speed intermittent wipers, no ABS or any other nannies, drum brakes (rear), no center console, no AC.
Smaller than 16" wheels
Side mirror on the driver's side only
spitfirebill wrote: Before too much longer: Dip stick for automatic transmission.
Dipstick for manual transmission (1959 Austin A55 Cambridge)!
tuna55 wrote: The only one that I can think of which hasn't been mentioned yet: Vacuum operated wipers. That's fun. I've driven most of these, and currently drive a car with dealer installed A/C, pop up headlights, and a bunch of other stuff even though it's not that old. I also DD'ed the truck with three-on-the-tree (and actually loved it), though I never have driven a car with a manual choke. Oh, I just remembered another. Farmer cruise. Some of the older trucks had a knob on the dash. This knob advanced the throttle, but just a smidge. The idea was you'd leave the truck in it's granny gear, pull out the throttle, get out, and follow the truck through the field as you would load/unload stuff at your farm. I love this, I've actually considered getting the parts to retrofit it into the Tunatruck as that was an option in 1972.
several have mentioned vacuum wipers … fun ? they're a major PITA .. try passing a tracker trailer in a driving rain storm on a 2 lane highway with vacuum wipers … one more time I really should have been killed
That_Renault_Guy wrote: Smaller than 16" wheels
15" on my Mom's '12 Fit
spitfirebill wrote: Before too much longer: Dip stick for automatic transmission.
already cars without oil dipsticks
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