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Ashtrays went away like the vent window did, I’m a x smoker and i used my vent window on my old 64 Dodge. And gone is the front air vents that you operated by pulling a knob attached to a cable, only us old timers will know what I’m talking about. Use to have rear seat ashtrays and lighters, the more luxury model sedans had built in ashtrays and lighters in all the door handles. There’s many things the automakers stopped putting into vehicles to save money.
I haven't been in a vehicle with a smoker in over 30 years.
IMO ashtray =wasted space.
And honestly, who really believes the old cars were safer? more fuel efficient? more reliable? more functional?
Keep your column shift, vent windows and bench seats and give me keyless entry, remote locator, TPMS and bluetooth technology ... all day, every day.
I've noticed quite a few drivers who are also smokers driving with the windows down and flicking their ashes and butts out the windows.
Back in the day, cars came with ash trays. Now they don't. Perhaps that's why smokers are just using the windows and flinging their butts.
Have you noticed the same behavior?
I see it everyday here in Florida. I cringe every time I see this, especially during dry season when the brush fire season kicks in. People just don’t care apparently.
I had a 1978 car, with AM radio, but around that time, radio engineers learned to make FM compatible with a moving cars, and a simple converter could be installed. My FM converter fit perfectly into the ashtray slot. Hard to believe that was 40 years ago.
A lot of people are "vaping" now. It's actually healthy. I was smoking 3 packs of Lucky Strikes a day, but now I just vape all day. There was some warning about smoking cigarettes being bad for you or whatever. Now I vape 24/7. I'm much healthier now. I will probably be in the next Olympic competitions. I had my surgeon make my stoma square so my Jool would fit into my neck nicely, that's how I roll. I don't need a lighter or ash tray.
I frequently chew gum while I'm driving, but I wouldn't toss the gum out the window when done!
I hate when people throw burning cigs out the window. It can start a fire, and has started fires on frequent occasions. At a minimum, the filter is usually not bio-degradable. If it were a filterless cig and they'd put it out completely before tossing it, who would care? A wad of leaves and some super-thin paper. But to toss a burning butt? What kind of a slob would do that? Arrest them and throw the book at them.
Someone has never driven in a very comfortable car !
Actually my very first (used) car out of college was an Olds Dynamic 88 w/ a 400 cubic inch engine iirc.
Is that possible?
It was a red convertible with two rows of bench seats that could carry seven grownups comfortably!
It had an auto column shift, vent windows which I loved, and when I had the top down all 5' 1" of me was in heaven. And was I COOL! Ahhh, my yute.
It was a fabulous, gas guzzling monster that would now be more fit for a museum than the road.
But times change, thick pillars hold airbags, cars got smaller, I got a little bigger...
I have a lovely Lexus now, so no complaints.
I’ve always thought a truck manufacturer should offer a spittoon package with a cool dip spit cup emblazoned with a ford or Chevy logo, that you could remove and have the wife clean out once in a while to prevent overflowing.
Also, with the increase of legal cannabis and the partaking that comes with it, especially while driving, ash trays themselves should make a comeback. It’s dangerous to throw all these roaches out during fire season. It would be much safer to collect the half burnt roaches in a tiny metal fireproof box built in the dash for potential future use.
I don’t smoke but the thought of a long road trip without some sort of nicotine supplement enhancement almost seems un-American, as do cars without ashtrays.
My favorite vehicles have ashtrays and don’t beep at you for not wearing a seatbelt, bonus points if it doesn’t even have a seatbelt.
This post made me laugh. In my time spent in the presence of Cannabis partakers, I only knew one who would discard a roach. And in his defense, he is not a replulician, he was a dealer though! (Decadence, I suppose)
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! Ahhh, my yute.
