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How about something simple... Like a dipstick. We have 3 cars, only one still has a traditional dipstick.
Drum brakes, although they are still installed from the factory in the rear on some base model cars, will probably be completely phased out in the next 5 years or so.
Car radio antennas. Most are built into the body now.
Still alive, well, and common. There are probably few people who aren't aware of them.
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Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd
How about "the HUMP" that is what we used to call it. It was actually the transmission drive shaft tunnel to the rear. Most cars today are front wheel drive so they don't have it.
Not yet but will eventually go away: Power steering fluid
Another term not used much is a lube and tune up. Cars don't need lube anymore and a tune up is too generic these days. Nothing really to adjust or "tune up"
Three on the floor.
Semi-automatic transmissions (DeSoto).
AM radios.
package shelf speaker kits.
Hand-crank windows (still around, but not common)
Room to mount under-dash accessories (tape player, CB, ham radios, etc.)
REAL station wagons (Olds Vista Cruiser, etc.)
Overdrive manual transmissions with the pull handle for the overdrive.
I, too, wish the designers had kept the "wing windows" (vent windows)!
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We have 3 cars, only one still has a traditional dipstick.
