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TheLunatickle Mar 13

For the record, It most certainly did NOT always work…

Eheran Mar 13

I was going to say, memories can get seriously skewed.

OwOarchist Mar 13

Or, sometimes it worked, but the levers were incredibly stiff and you could skip arm day at the gym if you needed to adjust the climate controls very often.

0ops Mar 13

Seriously, pneumatic climate control can eat my whole ass

Zombiepirate Mar 13

Good news, there’s a vacuum leak.

DearOldGrandma Mar 13

These were expensive decorations in the raised-roof Chevy

sik0fewl Mar 13

This was definitely the first thing that came to mind.

Rakonat Mar 14

Did it ever work? I thought they were just moral support levers?

“DESERT ONLY”

I’m so happy we moved away from this and toward three basic questions:

Where do you want it?
How hot do you want it?
How hard do you want it?

moonshadow Mar 14

All thanks to your mom

theshoeshiner Mar 16

Close. OPs mom has an important 4th question… How much money do you have?

I’m this old.

Ah, the window for flicking cigarette ashes…

Pepperidge Farm remembers

ChicoSuave Mar 14

I’m old enough to remember learning about these the hard way

Painful

if you are young, you probably have to drive a car this old if you own one

salty_chief Mar 14

This pic smells like hot glue and old french fries with an overlay of cig smoke.

O U C H

My first car had one of these.

Mickey7 Mar 15

bright lights foot switch. I miss it

Itdidnttrickledown Mar 15

Anytime I see pictures like these I can smell the car after being closed up all day in summer.

1995ToyotaCorolla Mar 15

My dad’s truck had one of these back in the day. The switch was super flaky so you’d either be stuck with low beams or stuck blinding oncoming traffic

When I was a young kid, and my parents didn’t want me to fall asleep on the way home at night, they would tell me it was magic that they were changing the lights without moving their hands.

I’m old enough to have owned a car with one of these:

i’m old enough to have owned a truck that had one of those that was also a manual transmission.

That’s the point. This is three on the tree. Not an automatic column shifter.

lol whoosh

What was yours? Mine was a 70s F150. When we rebuilt it, we converted it to a floor shifter. I miss the days when you could just pull out a torch and cut a hole in your floorboards and make such an adjustment

‘72 Bronco. Wish I still had it. They go for stupid money these days.

Nice! My favorite was my 1976 Chevy Blazer. Same. However, my dad is a hoarder, and I can still see it in the field behind his house on Google Earth.

Aw, poor car. Probably cost too much to rebuild.