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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:17:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Never driven a Peugeot then eh ? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Never been in a car where the dimmer isn't on the floor or the left side stalk. Never driven a Peugeot then eh ? Some people may have, but nobody is proud of it. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:23:19 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryThree on the tree! |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:24:22 PM EDT
[#3]
Popup headlights
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:26:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Some people may have, but nobody is proud of it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Never been in a car where the dimmer isn't on the floor or the left side stalk. Never driven a Peugeot then eh ? Some people may have, but nobody is proud of it.  Attached FileJean Todt would like a word with you  Prolly Ari and Timo too Attached File |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:28:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Some people may have, but nobody is proud of it. Never have. Knew someone that had one. We called it the sewing machine. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:42:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Popup headlights Hideaway headlights. Powered by engine vacuum, of coarse. Cause GD is so worried about EMPs. And if you happened to get a job as a bouncer at a rowdy night club like on Roadhouse, the drunks you threw out couldn't smash your lights. And while we're at it, shaker hoods where your engine sticks through a hole in the hood. And real functional hood scoops and cowl induction with the flappers connected to the engine. 
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:48:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Carburateur I thought you were talking about TBI. or as we call it toilet bowl injection. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:51:56 PM EDT
[#8]
Pop up and hideaway headlights.
Forget this ugly clear yellowing headlight crap. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:52:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I thought you were talking about TBI. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSaS3cEkN9Wdxbzw_JesF9lnwXab3aKgLlvyw&usqp=CAU or as we call it toilet bowl injection. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Carburateur I thought you were talking about TBI. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSaS3cEkN9Wdxbzw_JesF9lnwXab3aKgLlvyw&usqp=CAU or as we call it toilet bowl injection. I'm willing to entertain wide latitude for its use |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:55:05 PM EDT
[#10]
Station wagons
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Posted: 6/30/2023 2:57:38 PM EDT
[#11]
Full size 2 door 4X4 step side pickups.
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:01:20 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This too. And I'm alright with manual windows. The power ones that go all the way down/up instead of stopping when you stop pressing the button are annoying. That is auto up and down. Don't push the darn button so hard and it will function exactly as you wish. At least every vehicle I've been in does this. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:01:55 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm willing to entertain wide latitude for its use well, oddly enough TBI has kinda sorta found its way back in from the realm of the automotive idea graveyard. some of the later direct injection motors have a low pressure 5th injector. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:04:24 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Station wagons With the wood paneling and the cargo area with the back seat facing backwards so you could make faces at the cars behind you. And the kids were far away from the driver. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:31:07 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: traffic light viewers Those were always aftermarket add-on gimmicks, right? If not what cars were they standard or optional on? |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:33:28 PM EDT
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Carburetors do have one thing over electronic injection, being all mechanical you can replace the parts forever, 100 years from now Model T's through the early 80's cars will still be running and functional. EFI cars will have to hope that someone will be able to duplicate the factory PCM and BCM modules for whatever model of car you still want to be able to run. I am betting that 99.9% of EFI cars will be non-running by the year 2200.
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:36:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Carburetors do have one thing over electronic injection, being all mechanical you can replace the parts forever, 100 years from now Model T's through the early 80's cars will still be running and functional. EFI cars will have to hope that someone will be able to duplicate the factory PCM and BCM modules for whatever model of car you still want to be able to run. I am betting that 99.9% of EFI cars will be non-running by the year 2200. Dont be silly. They'll just do whatever the current version of "LS swap it bruh" is in 100 years.
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:36:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Foot switch high beam |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:39:12 PM EDT
[#19]
Curb feelers (but rather than flexible wires, they can be digital sensors). I never was consistent with parking, and these new cars don't give me straight lines to judge where I am.
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Posted: 6/30/2023 4:27:59 PM EDT
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Stole some of these from others:
Fender directionals --- What is this? Fender mounted turn signals like an air-cooled VW Beetle has? I thought it was the little reminder light on the front corners that flashes with the signals; reminds you that they're on Bench seat option --- They were like sofas, inner coil or "S" suspension springs, good padding and seated three across in comfort. Plus you can sleep on them and they're great for romantic interludes T Tops or Targa Tops --- On Fiat X1/9, some Porsche 911’s etc, way better than a sunroof and structurally better than a regular ragtop Suicide doors --- Really nice idea. It’s 2023: I think we can handle the negative/dangerous stigma with better design engineering. Gull wing doors or Lamborghini doors are nice too Shift lever on the column --- No reason for automatic cars to have it always on the floor. P R N D L2 L1 is a gigantic space waster along with front to back console. Preserves passenger room in conjunction with bench seats Pop up/hideaway headlights --- Neat styling cue, just weird that no new car has them anymore Glass headlight lenses --- We have the technology to create distortion-free, optically correct lenses in glass and also have a replaceable bulb (Halogen, Xenon, HID, LED, etc) Dispose of: Hazy plastic headlight lenses --- new cars all have large, garish looking headlights that stretch back into half of the fender panel. Ugly, brittle and the plastic always hazes over Gigantic dashboard --- why must new cars all have a dashboard that goes almost to the floor? A front collision means my knees are toast  |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 5:01:01 PM EDT
[#21]
Quoted: I'm going with the ball cooler vent. They are now called vented/cooled seats. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 5:15:44 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You should feel bad and reconsider the list of choices. Vent windows and ball chiller vents are obsoleted by cheap and reliable AC. Admittedly salt slush eats floor mounted dimmer switches, but they're cheap and easy to replace, and handy. If you're being handsy with your date and driving at night, they're the bomb. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The floor mounted dimmer switch might be the dumbest automotive obsession ever. Yes, I've had them. No, I don't see one single advantage of them over column mounted switches. Vent windows and ball chiller vents are obsoleted by cheap and reliable AC. Admittedly salt slush eats floor mounted dimmer switches, but they're cheap and easy to replace, and handy. If you're being handsy with your date and driving at night, they're the bomb. I regularly drive around with the windows and moonroof open on my 2022 vehicle with a perfectly fine AC. In the older vehicles I grew up with, there were days those vent windows were delightful and I wouldn't trade them for any AC ever sold. The only thing I didn't like was the whistling when the seals got old. Every vehicle I've ever driven had the dimmer switch on the floor or the left side of the column, and the column mounted switches can be flicked without taking my left hand off the wheel. If I want to send my right hand to fun places in the passenger seat, the dimmer switch is no obstacle. Alternatively, I never liked having the floor mounted switch being positioned in a place that was in the way of resting my left foot when driving an automatic or not pushing the clutch on a manual, I never liked cleaning around it, and I'm glad the all weather mats in newer vehicles don't have to be designed around them. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 5:16:50 PM EDT
[#23]
Bench seats.
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Posted: 6/30/2023 5:23:03 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The automobile industry has been in a steady decline since 1980. The cars are poorly made piles of plastic. Yes, horsepower has increased dramatically in the past 2 decades. However they are soul sucking appliances that are designed to be overcomplicated so you can't service and repair them yourself. When things are simple, they are generally better. (generally)  1975-1985 is easily the worst era ever in automotive history. Those cars were full of cheesy brittle plastics inside and out, they had 5L+ V8s that made like 110 horsepower, they got 12 MPG, they were extremely slow, rust was standard factory equipment, they had 87 yards of vacuum tubing, they were death traps in collisions, and they all had 5 digit odometers for a very good reason. Seriously, the only cars worth a damn from that era were from Mercedes and Volvo. American cars were trash, and JDM cars weren't really mature yet. The vehicles produced in later decades are better in every way imaginable, and it's not close. |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 11:13:08 PM EDT
[#25]
No computer modules
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Posted: 6/30/2023 11:14:58 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Brought back?... ...how about getting rid if the last 15-20 years of feds-mandated bullshit instead  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/30/2023 11:40:21 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84774/A591A68F-981B-4A74-9195-C1C29F13DCED_jpe-2868632.JPG I want the entire car back. Really miss the 1960s cars cool factor. With factory aluminum wheels. Nice. |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 12:03:22 AM EDT
[#28]
This really doesn’t really fit the bill, but…
I wish that everything in the dash (entertainment/info, etc.) wasn’t completely integrated. I miss the days of aftermarket stereos/speakers/equalizers/amps and all other fun stuff. |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 12:10:48 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Modern automatic headlight make needing to do this obsolete. Yeah my 24 Chevy has that, but a foot dimmer is great for flashing an led light bar with his brights on bronzer without having to grab the turn signal stalk to flash him. Square body Chevys had it just right. Side vent was perfect to have if you locked keys in vehicle, but also made it easier for thieves. |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 5:07:03 AM EDT
[#30]
Convertible sedans
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Posted: 7/1/2023 5:38:16 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Pop up and hideaway headlights. Forget this ugly clear yellowing headlight crap. . I get that it's kinda needless added complexity now, but still, I love em. Super cool IMO. ETA, had em on an Accord and Prelude too. IMHO they may have got a bad rap, kinda, due to some folks not knowing ya need to park out with em "up" if there's freezing rain/sleet or the like coming. |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 5:44:28 AM EDT
[#32]
Real steel bumpers
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Posted: 7/1/2023 6:10:44 AM EDT
[#33]
4x4 trucks with at least 3 shift levers on the floor.
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Posted: 7/1/2023 6:56:10 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Foot switch high beam THIS |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 7:55:25 AM EDT
[#35]
Dual temperature control for vent and floor
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Posted: 7/1/2023 8:03:26 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 1975-1985 is easily the worst era ever in automotive history. Those cars were full of cheesy brittle plastics inside and out, they had 5L+ V8s that made like 110 horsepower, they got 12 MPG, they were extremely slow, rust was standard factory equipment, they had 87 yards of vacuum tubing, they were death traps in collisions, and they all had 5 digit odometers for a very good reason. Seriously, the only cars worth a damn from that era were from Mercedes and Volvo. American cars were trash, and JDM cars weren't really mature yet. The vehicles produced in later decades are better in every way imaginable, and it's not close. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The automobile industry has been in a steady decline since 1980. The cars are poorly made piles of plastic. Yes, horsepower has increased dramatically in the past 2 decades. However they are soul sucking appliances that are designed to be overcomplicated so you can't service and repair them yourself. When things are simple, they are generally better. (generally) 1975-1985 is easily the worst era ever in automotive history. Those cars were full of cheesy brittle plastics inside and out, they had 5L+ V8s that made like 110 horsepower, they got 12 MPG, they were extremely slow, rust was standard factory equipment, they had 87 yards of vacuum tubing, they were death traps in collisions, and they all had 5 digit odometers for a very good reason. Seriously, the only cars worth a damn from that era were from Mercedes and Volvo. American cars were trash, and JDM cars weren't really mature yet. The vehicles produced in later decades are better in every way imaginable, and it's not close. As the owner of an American vehicle made in 1980, I approve this message. Not selling it, though.
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Posted: 7/1/2023 8:04:30 PM EDT
[#37]
I guess the newer ventilated seats are comparable to the ball chiller vent but can we get both?
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Posted: 7/1/2023 9:02:21 PM EDT
[#38]
Ball chiller vents, quarter glass windows and floor mounted highbeam switches.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 1:45:25 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Curb feelers (but rather than flexible wires, they can be digital sensors). I never was consistent with parking, and these new cars don't give me straight lines to judge where I am. Flip the mirror selector to the curb side, then put the car into reverse. Good cars will point the mirror down at the ground for you. Kharn |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 1:47:57 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Stole some of these from others: Fender directionals --- What is this? Fender mounted turn signals like an air-cooled VW Beetle has? I thought it was the little reminder light on the front corners that flashes with the signals; reminds you that they're on Bench seat option --- They were like sofas, inner coil or "S" suspension springs, good padding and seated three across in comfort. Plus you can sleep on them and they're great for romantic interludes T Tops or Targa Tops --- On Fiat X1/9, some Porsche 911’s etc, way better than a sunroof and structurally better than a regular ragtop Suicide doors --- Really nice idea. It’s 2023: I think we can handle the negative/dangerous stigma with better design engineering. Gull wing doors or Lamborghini doors are nice too Shift lever on the column --- No reason for automatic cars to have it always on the floor. P R N D L2 L1 is a gigantic space waster along with front to back console. Preserves passenger room in conjunction with bench seats Pop up/hideaway headlights --- Neat styling cue, just weird that no new car has them anymore Glass headlight lenses --- We have the technology to create distortion-free, optically correct lenses in glass and also have a replaceable bulb (Halogen, Xenon, HID, LED, etc) Dispose of: Hazy plastic headlight lenses --- new cars all have large, garish looking headlights that stretch back into half of the fender panel. Ugly, brittle and the plastic always hazes over Gigantic dashboard --- why must new cars all have a dashboard that goes almost to the floor? A front collision means my knees are toast There is no need for a shift lever anywhere. Buttons can tell the transmission computer which mode to be in without the expensive mechanical linkage driving the same switches. There's a knee airbag under that gigantic dashboard. Kharn |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 5:26:07 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Convertible sedans They went away because no one bought them. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 7:47:54 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They went away because no one bought them. The PT cruiser and chrysler sebring convertibles sold like they were going out of style! |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 7:56:38 PM EDT
[#43]
Naturally aspirated vehicles.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 7:59:01 PM EDT
[#44]
Not so much tech but the construction. I want a late 70s high boy crew cab, except with a modern drive train minus compute nannies. Big ole body on frame badass with a modern high output engine with a standalone EFI system and modern trans. If we could get rid of the stupid pedestrian safety and crash laws and just let people buy what they want with the actual data out there that would be great.
I could've bought an original one with virtually no rust for about $2,600 around 2004 and passed. 
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Posted: 7/2/2023 8:00:48 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Vent windows Ford's 4.9 L inline Metal dashboards and floorboards with full vinyl bench seat They should bring back the inline with a snail strapped to it. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 8:09:20 PM EDT
[#46]
I want them to bring back the backseat liquor bar like the old jags
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Posted: 7/2/2023 10:15:08 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone who prefers carburetors is sick and needs to see a doctor.  Not just any carburetor, but a 4 barrel gas sucking, move the gas needle, carburetor Just kidding I wouldn't trade fuel injection, but to me, the lag and the sound of a quadrajet kicking in is awesome.  Quadrajet Carb in action 400 Ram Air 2 |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 10:20:36 PM EDT
[#48]
Lessened crash regs.
Lighter vehicles. The reliability of an 80s/90s JDM build. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 10:28:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/4/2023 2:07:52 PM EDT
[#50]
R12 air conditioners
2 door coupes with back seats and you could still roll down the back windows Fastbacks with rear window louvers Headlights and tail lights where you can replace the bulb without having to remove the wheels or 20lb of interior trim. pushrod motors with flat tappet lifters that dont need 20yd of timing chains. |
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