Unique Features of old/new cars - Picture Post

[04GoaT]

Let's start a new game/thread of 1 off features cars have had or currently have. There's enough Motown car guys on this forum to expose some pretty cool things.

For instance while looking at some old cars from the 30-60s you find some pretty cool features that never really took off or were really unique for their time. Things like hidden gas tank fillers, power anntenas.....

Post a picture & description of that feature, car info, etc...

I'll start....

1970's Caddy with exterior thermometer on the mirror post.

[Bateater]

This could be interesting.

[chuck-norris]

1948 Tucker everything about that car was so ahead of it's time.

[1fstfox]

56GasFill.jpg

56 Belair tail lamp/fuel door.

[cjmatt]

I always thought the Traffic Light Viewer was cool

[Zarken]

Temp guage is a cool idea, I could see that being a retro bring back. The lamp fuel door, man that was a fire hazard waiting to happen. The stop light reflector, shit that needs to be standard issue now days, hard as hell to see those things sometimes. Even worse if your in slow traffice behind a semi truck. Not sure if it's red or green when you roll up to it.

[pferd]

I saw one of these at the Mopar auto show a couple years ago. I'd never seen the sliding doors before or after. Car is a 1954 Kaiser Darrin.
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[Fryguy302]

These engines are 26-27 years old, and I always felt they were way ahead of their time:




I like the factory sequential taillights on the old Cougars. The turn signals blinked sequentially in the direction you were turning:

[Baldie]

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These motors were way ahead of their time.

[lucky7]

maybe not the original for any of this, but it was well equipped for having a build date of 12/1986.


that thing was goddamn accurate. all the options there worked, too. the temp would show up on the screen, and would beep at you when it dropped below 35˚ to let you know that roads might be icy. modern day BMWs do the same, but at 32˚. it also had a check panel above the mirror that would tell you when you lights were out - and it told you exactly which one. when you were 1qt low on oil, etc, etc. pretty cool stuff for a 25 year old 3 series.



being nostalgic. it was my favorite car.

E30-1 by Dane Van, on Flickr

mercedes got the jump on lots of features in the S class though.
cool commercial.