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I'm beginning to think you may be right. Did most every car have it that way during the 70s?

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I wouldn't have asked if I knew. In fact,the person who sent that pic to me is a bit older than I am. I wrote him I didn't know but I knew some folks who'd know,for sure.

I know stuff you guys don't know!

I can't remember everything from 35 years ago.

is that the classic Reagan defense maneuver???

The reason you don't know, Bob, is, being from back east, you never got to use the high beams.
And Amen to what you said to Dwayne a few pages back. I wish I had enough equanimity in my life to emulate him. At least that's my excuse for not, and I'm sticking with it.

Here's another one. My 1st car was a '59 Ford Fairlane with a 3-spd column shift. It had this handle hanging under the dash.



It had an OD unit bolted to the transmission. It actually acted like a high range as it work in all gears. To use it, you had to have power to the tranny (not coasting, that is). Pull out the lever and let up on the gas. As the power to the tranny let off, it would upshift. Then you were in a higher gear range. For passing, you punched it and it would downshift like an automatic. Let up on the gas and it would upshift again. To take it out of OD, you punched the gas to downshift it and pushed in the handle.

My brother had a '70 Ford pickup with a 390HP and an OD unit like that. Neat system!

Ed

Had one.

Hmpf, 35 years ago is a breeze....yesterday is the problem.

You really know you're old when you can remember when the starter had a foot push button.
When I first started driving, my uncle had a '55 Dodge half-ton with that type of starter. It was also a "three in the tree" standard.

You are right, as are the other guys. Didn't know what Bob was up too for sure. It did look like a dimmer switch.

Didn't want Bob to hit the wrong (unknown) switch while in gear by accident and bump that vehicle into denting his Lamborghini.

We had an old International(?) Dad called the Powerwagon, IRC.

It did have a starter on the left, high off the floor. When I was ten, my job was using the truck to fill the feed bunks for the cattle. Had to hang on and slide under the steering wheel a little, too reach the starter, legs were too short to reach & start my first year for that job. It was a pretty good balancing act for me to keep the clutch all the way down, and get enough weight on the starter too make contact. Dad made a push pole for the starter out of a old hay fork handle,I kept under the seat. Worked pretty good for me! 2nd year didn't need the start pole anymore. Either my legs got longer, or I had more muscle from the shovel work.

I had an old Mercedes from the 1960's that also had a wiper squirt bulb and wiper switch mounted on the floor near the dimmer switch.

Any of you remember the old VW bugs without gas gauges that had a lever on the floor under the dash for turning on the reserve gas tank?

My first car was a '59 VW Beetle. I ran out of gas a few times because I didn't bother to check he gas with the dip stick.
Luckily, they had a small reserve tank for just such occasions. Just flip the switch and head for the nearest gas station.
It had the dimmer switch on the floor too.

My first car had one youngster.

1968 Pontiac LeMans. So did my second car, 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner.

Mid 80's I bought an all original 58 Chevy Apache 1/2 ton that had the floor starter button, with a granny 4 speed. Used it as a daily driver for well over a year. Shoulda kept that one.

Mid-stage at this point would be my guess...

Time for a family/internet friends intervention here- those keys need to be pulled before someone gets hurt chief!

I remember having a thing you pushed with your foot that squirted windshield washer from a bag under the hood.

Nitrous? Adam

The last truk I owned that had one was a 1984 F350 with the 351MOD in it. The brown beast. Adam