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These are some of the strangest features ever found on cars!

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50 thoughts on “Strangest Car Features Ever Used!

  1. Some info on the in car 45s.

    To avoid skipping, the spring on the arm was strong, and would avoid skipping but it also marred the record to where you could get maybe 5-10 good playbacks. It was still used up to the 70s as aftermarket installs. We had one when I was growing up, and I still think its kind of cool.

  2. 1957 and 1958 Edsel that had automatic transmissions had their push buttons in the steering wheel center Unlike Chrysler's purely mechanical push buttons, Edsel's was electro-mechanical. These were problematic and did not always function well. In 1959, Edsel replaced these with automatic shift selectors.

  3. The swivel seat that could turn to face the back was so your mom could turn around and back hand you if you were out of line

  4. Remember the little triangle windows just in front of the driver and passender wide windows that could swivel out to provide outside airflow. Mostly obsolete with mainstream air conditioning

  5. How about the talking commands in vehicles like plymouth lasers of the mid 80s?. Terrible reliability as a friend owned one and it was always in the shop. Now with smartphone integration, voice is back.

  6. No, the only point of a 3 wheel car is that a motorbike rider could use them without needing a car licence. They were popular with miners who tended to ride motorbikes but wanted something warmer during the winter, the choice to have the one wheel in the front was the biggest failure of the Reliant Robin, 3 wheel cars behave perfectly normally when it is two in front and one in the back.

  7. In the 60s-70s luxury American cars had retractable radio antennas and automatic headlight covers. Mostly gimmicks that did not add any real useful function.

  8. What I miss most are the small vent windows in the front, they were great for venting out hot summer air or if you smoked. I believe they disappeared mostly because they could save a little money, I don’t think anybody ever complained about having those little windows in their car.

  9. Besides not being properly used with the lap belt, that motorized shoulder strap was just another thing to go wrong. One thing I don't miss about cars from the 50s and 60s is the keys. You had to have two keys: one for the ignition, and one for the trunk. Those keys had to be inserted right side up until Ford finally came up with one key for both ignition and trunk that could be inserted either way. Other car makers quickly followed suit.

  10. One thing you left out was car phones. Phones built into cars. Or maybe you didn’t include them because this time period had cell phones and I’m thinking earlier before cell phones where more a thing

  11. 3:09 This swivel seat could also be very good for the parent to swing around and lay a level 3 beat down on the out of control brats in the back seat on those long road trips.

  12. Rumor has it that when Ed Cole at GM heard about the Ford "Wrist-Twist" running prototype through the Detroit grapevine he said "If we'd been driving that way for 50 years and somebody came to us with the steering wheel, we'd give that SOB a million dollars!"

  13. Cornering lights. Cadillacs and maybe a few other large American luxury cars of the 1960's and 1970's had these bright white lights pointing sideways at the front of the car. If the engine was running, and the main headlights are lit, and the driver signals a left or right turn, a bright light would shine sideways in the direction one intends to turn so as to illuminate the intended path before the car itself can be turned facing into the intended direction.

  14. I like the Ford with the alternative steering. I've long believed that the steering wheel is a technology that needs to go. I would prefer a retractable table that comes out when the engine is started. On the table would be twin joy sticks, one for each hand, for steering. All of the devices on the steering wheel today could easily transfer to the retractable table. This would also provide a completely unobstructed view of the instrument panel.

  15. In the mid-90s I bought a 1991 Plymouth Laser, and it had the automatic seatbelts. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and I loved it! I couldn’t get pulled over for not having my seatbelt on!! Of course, I always thought of the lap belt as optional. 😆

  16. Check out the 1963 Studebaker Avanti. It had a full padded dash , seatbelts on the front seats, and a built-in roll bar. The car survived 30 years after Studebaker stopped production of automobiles. Studebaker built vehicles from 1852 to 1966. President Grant had a Studebaker!!

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