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Old 07-17-2015, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Louisville KY
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No. With GM cars, the round key opened the doors, the square key started the car. If the car was locked, it took both keys to get in and go anywhere. GM did that, Chrysler and Ford did not. I don't know what the patterns might have been with imports.
Ford did it too, till about 87 or so.
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Old 07-17-2015, 09:45 PM
 
Location: Louisville KY
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In John Waters' movie, "Desperate Living", there's a scene where two of the characters get into a car and drive away. When the car starts, the motorized antenna raises. Waters says that it always gets a laugh, and he still can't understand why.
With some makes, it didn't raise unless the radio was turned on.
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Old 07-17-2015, 09:46 PM
 
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Ford did it too, till about 87 or so.
Not the 79 Fairmont that I owned for 17 years.
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Old 07-17-2015, 09:46 PM
 
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Ford did it too, till about 87 or so.
Chrysler did it to I had a 1968 Dodge 2 keys. One had the Pentastar emblem on it the other was just oval, oval for the locks and trunk penistar for the ignition.
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Old 07-17-2015, 09:49 PM
 
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Locking gas caps. My car doesn't even have a gas cap! So convenient.
You can still buy locking gas caps.
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Old 07-17-2015, 09:51 PM
 
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You don't see the push funnel or round oil cans either.
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Old 07-17-2015, 09:56 PM
 
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Sheep skin chamois
White's Whitewall cleaner
Car phone & antenna
Carpet for dashboard & headliner
Gun rack. In rural areas where hunting is popular it was common to see gun racks inside trucks.
Music horn
You can still get that stuff and you can order carpet and headliner from JC Whitney you can get everything that you listed you must not be that old if you came up with that list. I can go and get white wall cleaner today at autozone and car phone atena look on the back of a police car same type atena as a car phone. Some people still have classic cars with white walls. And gun racks are still sold at stores.
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Old 07-17-2015, 10:01 PM
 
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Hand cranks
Nice 1930 Model A Ford...

Too bad his thumb is in the wrong position should it kick back...

I bought a Model A as my first car... still have it.
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Old 07-17-2015, 10:05 PM
 
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You can still get that stuff and you can order carpet and headliner from JC Whitney you can get everything that you listed you must not be that old if you came up with that list. I can go and get white wall cleaner today at autozone and car phone atena look on the back of a police car same type atena as a car phone. Some people still have classic cars with white walls. And gun racks are still sold at stores.
True... but they are rare around here...
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Old 07-17-2015, 10:09 PM
 
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True... but they are rare around here...
Not in the Detroit area you can get anything for any year of car.
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