13 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That No Longer Exist!
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- 13 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That No Longer Exist!
Explore the dangers of old car features in this captivating TH-cam video titled "13 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That No Longer Exist!" From the 1950s to the 1980s in the USA, discover the safety hazards that were once common in vehicles. Watch now to learn about these obsolete features and how car safety has evolved over the years.
Just seeing those neck seatbelts makes me cringe!
I have never heard of those. How could someone think that was a good idea.
Watch it again, the crash test footage is hilarious.
@@johndoe-so2ef Nah, I stopped watching after a bit. Too much wasted time.
Choker seat belts for your neck. The hangman edition😂😂😂
I think they never existed
The steering wheel is NOT the oldest invention in automotive history. Early cars had tillers.
Interesting note- The one thing on automobiles, ever since they had windshields, that hasn't fundamentally changed, is the windshield wiper! (And maybe the heater.) Just takes heat off of the engine, right?
@@samr.england613 The first automobiles with windshields came with a simple squeegee. In the rain, you would pull over and use the squeegee every couple of blocks. The first windshield wipers were manual. A linkage connected a squeegee to a lever on the dashboard, and you moved the lever to move the squeegee across the windshield.
@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 "Mary Anderson patented the first effective windshield wiper in 1903, but it wasn't until 1922 that Cadillac began installing windshield wipers as standard equipment on their cars. The rest of the automotive industry followed suit." My point remains: Other than the heater, the one thing on automobiles that hasn't fundamentally changed in the last hundred plus years or more is the windshield wiper.
@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 "Mary Anderson patented the first effective windshield wiper in 1903, but it wasn't until 1922 that Cadillac began installing windshield wipers as standard equipment on their cars. The rest of the automotive industry followed suit." Doesn't change my point that, besides car heaters, the windshield wiper is the one thing on cars that hasn't fundamentally changed in the last 100+ years.
Just want to add, Jewishman (I guess I'm Christian Presbyterian guy), that it's really interesting, so far as human creativity goes, that the first guys to build automobiles, seemed to think that they SHOULD look like, 'horseless carriages', that is, with a tiller and no 'front end'. It was later, by circa 1900 or so, that they were like, "Hey! This isn't a 'horseless carriage', it's a freakin' "automobile", and we can put the engine compartment in the front!! hehe
Why not give Volvo engineers the credit for three point seat belts. They made them open source to ensure all vehicles could be equipped with them and save lives.
I couldn't agree with you more and I wounder why Volvo do not get any credit AT ALL for giving away a profitable invention and has saved millions of lives - it tells so much more about Volvo as opposed to all other car manufacturers.
Maybe the missing talk of both Volvo and WV this is a passion for US cars as not even the beetle was mentioned when the video shows the dashboard of a beetle and the comments mention a US manufacture?
The Volvo engineers heard about a person in Montana I believe died in a Volvo, the engineers flew there from Sweden to find out how to make their cars safer
That was my first thought as well!
My 1962 Volvo S122 had a collapsable steering column, a roll bar, break-away engine mounts to direct it down rather than the driver/passenger's lap, a break-a-way dash, and three point seat belts. Did I mention 1962?
Did you read the title of the video before you got all bunched up?
This video has numerous inaccuracies and is only worth watching to simply view the old vehicles and their parts.
Yep. I was wondering if I was pulling a Biden. Recalling things not as they were.
@@larrythompson8630you mean the orange scumbag ?
@@larrythompson8630 "They the very Afghanistan madam Trump you aint ice cream...Medicare"
@@larrythompson8630 Biden recalls things as he believes they were. He's a pathological liar. "Mental health experts say that many pathological and compulsive liars may believe the stories they tell because they've repeated them so often that they start to feel true. This can lead to pathological liars living in a fantasy world where their "truth" becomes reality.
@@larrythompson8630 Biden recalls things as he thinks they were. He's a pathological liar. Pathological liars, among other symptoms, actually believe the lies they tell because they've told them repeatedly, often times over many years, and actually think the lies are true.
17:59 That's a Triumph TR 2/3 assembly line in the U.K. not Japan.
The first picture of the "early" seat belts is wrong. It shows a classic old car that is retrofitted with modern plastic seat belts. The creator should not have included that picture. The part that the belt fits into should be all metal since plastic female seatbelt parts with plastic red buttons didn't exist. The actual early seatbelts were identical to airplane seat belts.
Exactly right. That is a garbage plastic femal buckle slip they are showing in the video. Krap. The original ones from thee early 1960s were massive all-steel devices. Like massive aircraft seat belts. What you get for a seat belt and seat belt buckle today in 99 percent of the vehicles sold is pure garbage.
VOLVO launced the three point safety belts in 1959.
They decided that the safety advantage of the three point belt was important enough that they wouldn't patent the system, thus allowing all manufacturers to use the three point belt system without having concerns of patent infringement.
@@dannyhull8007 Kind of like Ben Franklin with his woodstove and lightning rod. Go Volvo!
My mom said seatbelts were an option on her 1955 Ford sedan, unfortunately quality wasn't good, sand hole on her engine block blew the engine quickly. Didn't cast a good block.
Gm made it standard in 1969 for all its passenger cars
@@AlexJonesWasRight1776and then GM messed that up back in the 1980s by moving the 3 point seat belt to the door that could come open in a crash
When seatbelts came out my grandmother was excited. Then came lap and shoulder restraints and she was extatic. I thought how odd. Then as I learned to drive she leaned over and said... always wear your seatbelts dear because you can take corners faster. She was right. You can take corners faster. 😅
👍to your Grandmother! 😂
I miss the dimmer switch for headlights being on the floor next to your left foot. It took me awhile to get used to using a lever on the steering wheel.
Having the switch on a stalk allows it to be much more delicate construction which means that on many cars it has only a slight tactile feel but doesn't make much/any noise. Having the switch on the floor requires it to be rugged (to withstand being hit with the foot) and so it makes a very loud clonk-clonk sound whenever you alternate between dipped and high beam.
Water does not absorb energy, water does not compress!
I saw water bumpers featured at a car show back in those days. The idea was that in a collision increased pressure in the water would force plugs to pop out and water would then be forced out through fairly small holes absorbing energy, rather like shock absorbers do. Never saw a manufacturer use them though.
Fun to see the original California Special Mustang.
And the guy puts on his shoulder belt WHILE DRIVING WITH NO HANDS!
once upon a time we had the alignment checked and took pride in the car being able to drive straight down the road. Of course, that's when we still maintained our roads...
It was the huge numbers of British drivers doing so that led to single handed belt buckles being made compulsory in the UK.
This guy sounds like Principal Skinner.
Oh yeah yes he sure does
Principal Skinner- "Bart, see how many dumb ideas you can come up with in an hour, and then try to beat that record!" hehe
I think it's more Principal Skinner doing a Charlie Sheen impression.
I remember my first car, a 93 Tracer. It had those automatic sliding shoulder belts.
gas tanks one the most dangerous things, pickups with the gas tank behind the seat .top of the gas tank which was the trunk floor with the filler tube exposed
I drove those pickups for well over 25 years and flipped many a cigarette butt off the gas caps. Obviously there was no bad results. Sheeple panic over the littlest things...
@@davezul4396 Just cause you were lucky doesn't make it a bad idea. You probably smoke when filling your tank too. I have seen people do that.
Not just the Pinto. Mustangs used the fuel tank as the trunk floor. This is why a divider behind the back seat is recommended on this car, to prevent fuel from a ruptured fuel tank from getting into the passenger compartment. It also incidentally stiffens the unibody, improving the ride.
@@davezul4396yeah I drove an old Chevy for years that had the tank right behind the seat.....
@@timradde4328I remember working in the gas station as a kid, flip the license plate down, filling the tank smoking a Camel.... Dude started going on about if his car blows up, I started laughing, dude, if this car blows up, neither of us are going to care.
Ha! Steer horns weren’t mentioned. Imna go get a pair.
They're only allowed on white 1970 Cadillac De Ville convertibles!
If I remember correctly, the first widely used ABS system was that on the Mercedes-Benz W116 model car in 1978, but it was primarily sold in Germany due its high cost at the time. It wasn't until 1984 when wider user of integrated circuit controllers that ABS became a lot less expensive and started to appear in a wide variety of models, particularly in the USA. Interestingly, the electronics of ABS systems were also used as part of the stability control system that simultaneously modulated brakes and the engine throttle in the 1990's.
My 2014 ram 2500 has the antilock up brakes and them in themselves have almost caused me to end up in the ditch many times.
“The only thing you can’t fix on a car is the nut behind the wheel”
New memory foam bumpers absorbs impacts soften bumps.
Ballistic gel filled bumpers. Or airbags.
My car is full of featureless features.
Wrist twist system was in Popular Mechanics magazine, I was about 11 years old and I thought it was crazy. It's why my Dad wanted a subscription for me to study.
Three point seatbelts were the invention of Volvo, but unlike American companies would have done, Volvo left the invention unpatented. Such is real sustainable business!
7:36 Swivel steering wheel is a great idea especially for people with bad legs. My uncle had to lift the steering wheel and push his seat back to get out of the car.
I thought the neck seatbelts were a joke! The onion or Babylon bee did a bit on those a couple years back! 😂
Water does not absorb energy. The flexible water-filled rubber might absorb an impact. The bumpers ruptured because water does not compress.
All of these innovations because they can't do the one thing that would fix it all.
Teach people to drive.
And stop making them like living rooms with TVs and stuff. Cars should be scary with spikes that poke you when you get too close to another car.
I love this
Non preventable accidents will always exist,I like the safety features of modern cars.
@@giovannisocci8793 There are no accidents...only becauses. Cars crash BECAUSE somebody did something wrong.
That was a common philosophy of driving when I first learned to drive. The best way to survive an accident was to not have an accident.
@@yourhandlehere1or something broke on the car or a tree or rock falls in front of them suddenly or a tornado hail storm ..
Seeing the mention of metal dashboards on VW Beetles reminds me of my mum's 1959 Morris Minor which had a metal dashboard. Being a 2-door model, the front seats tipped up but weren't locked the floor (until a catch was released). The car didn't have seats belts, and when my Dad enquired, he was told that the car wasn't strong enough to have seat belts because the B pillars were too weak.
One day, when I was about 7, I was sitting in the front seat and my younger sister was sitting behind me in the back. Mum had to brake hard when an idiot pulled out from a side road. Simply braking hard (she didn't hit the other car) was enough to catapult my sister into the backrest of my seat, tipping the seat and pushing me into the dashboard. I sprained my wrists as I instinctively tried to push myself away from the dashboard, and had a nasty bruise on my forehead for a week or so.
Didn't mention Ralph Nader one time. All the improvements were made by "engineers."
Additionally, I was surprised "wing windows" were not cited in this video. Wing windows were the first attempt to air condition cars and could be dangerous to children who liked to extend their arms outside.
Wing windows also provided means of entry for thieves who had small enough arms, or a device to unlock the doors.
I still miss wing windows despite there drawbacks. An air conditioning system can force your engine to run harder and still suck up considerable gasoline. Wing windows you could adjust the direction of airflow to your heart's content.
The Grand Prix that you showed has an Endura nose that did absorb very light impacts. It was also availabke on the 1970.Pontiac GTO. SO...the fact that yiure calling one thing (Endura nose - existed) as a water filled bumper (doubt its existence) has me woundering about your video.
This video could easily be retitled, "Why the average automobile now cost more than the average American can afford."
Don’t be a Richard
So, go buy a Pinto and get it over with. LOL
Or retiled "Why the average wage has not kept up with automobile prices"
This video is about safety, not money.
@@brianreber8842 This video is about government intrusion into the driver's right to decide for him/herself. Thank your insurance company for that.
I recall on my 8th birthday receiving a lap-belt as a birthday gift because our cars were not equipped with one for me sitting in the back seat, of our Caddy, and Buick as well as the middle seat in our pickup truck. (mid 60s).
TY 👍
ABS NOT safe. While increasing safety for those stopping in wet conditions like hydroplaning it has increased the loss of control and ability to stop on snow and ice over standard brakes.
Driver seat belts and airbags are the most dangerous things. Put a 10 inch metal spike in the middle of the steering wheel and road casualties would drop to almost zero.
Uhmm... did you forget to take your medication?
@@francoamerican4632no. He's realized that so many people these days are used to not getting hurt when they do stupid things. Us old folks that have been hurt because the old cars weren't forgiving think it through before we do dumb things.
@@francoamerican4632 No, I take my meds every day. Having mental health issues is nothing to be ashamed of.
@@johndoe-so2ef Like driving with just a finger on the wheel not realising if the engine fails so does the power steering.
@@paulgeorge6353Perhaps you might consider a chat with your Doctor about changing your meds then!
As to the "exploding Pintos", the NTSB eventually determined that the car's gas tank placement was no more or less dangerous than other similar cars. And it has been verified that films showing a Pinto bursting into flames do not also show the incendiary device mounted to the other vehicle's front bumper.
Once upon a time, driving coffins on wheels was a common trend.
"Hood ornaments imposed a significant impalement risk..."
Dumbest thing I've heard all day. Why can't the government quit poking their nose where it doesn't belong and let manufacturers have some basic freedom. With all of these regulations, it's no wonder that all the cars look the same these days.
Neck seatbelts couldn't pay me enough to use them
4:09 what could possibly go wrong
Our old Jeep had a fold down windshield. Then little straps to tie the other end to the hood. I can't remember the year though. 1970-1985...somewhere around that era.
for me the water ballom bumper could be a good solution, its not for high speed crashes
and the wrist dual driving wheels could help, that or a "pedal" to block the rotation to one side at a time
4:28 perfect edition by the way. the swing away wheel could have helped
Hood Ornaments later on were spring loaded meaning they could easily move on impact thus no impalement issues.
Today they offer too much wind resistance on the highway.
Unfortunately GM, Ford & Chrysler prioritize higher profits and cost-cutting over quality & reliability. In the case of the Ford Pinto, Ford didn't want to spend money fixing the Pinto. They don't want to spend allot money to fix a safety problem such as when they have to do a safety recall and will come up with a cheap fix such as a software update
Anyone remember the 'rim blow' steering wheels? No horn button at all you just squeezed the wheel as there was a rubber ring around the inside edge of the steering wheel that made the horn blow when you squeezed it.
You could just drive over a family a hot day back then with water bumpers and then they all felt good and fresh again. 😄
0:09 Missal engineer? How does one engineer prayer books?
Neck seatbelts?! 😳
Who the heck let McDonnell Douglas try to design _any_ safety feature for a car?... ✈💥😉
Cars were not the only place water-filled bumpers were used(misnomer - often an antifreeze type mixture for colder climates) there were many New Look (fish bowl) transit buses that also had them.
Water filled bumpers? From Detroit car manufactures? Winter 5 months a year in Michigan. Frozen bumpers. Who the heck thought of that? :)
They never made production.
The “fat man wheel” (swing-away steering wheel) was an option on some cars starting ca. 1907.
My family had a Pinto...
Fidn't get past the water filled bumpers. They were NEVER a prodiction features, neither were the wrist twist steering wheels.
I know two people whove been in accidents with those old cars that had steering wheels that impaled them.
"Equipped with sensors and processors to enhance braking precision"
Literally only serves to make a mechanics life hell. You can get to same "advancements" from a hard wire system.
While definitely more clunky, they would be some good bit easier to repair.
There's also the fact, you would be able to replace circuits individually
I remember back when someone bought a Car, they took a pair of scissors and cut out all the seat belts! Such a nuisance, those seat belts!
The swing away wheel would lock when taken out of Park.
The driver could not take the car out of Park unless the wheel was in driving position.
Real progress. Now days all cars look the same unless you want to spend 80K or more. No thanks, I'll stay with the classics like my '55 Bel Air hardtop.
The necklace seat belt 👍🏽
I think swivel buckets were also dangerous
Water Bumpers?? Water BEDS in Seventies Conversion Vans was Way Cooler. As a Teen, I dreamed of owning one of those "Rolling Hotels." I think some bumpers DID have Hydraulic shocks. That prevents damage at about Five miles/hour.
I believe the Tesla Cybertruck still has 8 of these features plus the new self-cremation option.
I wonder what safety issues they had with chrome bumpers.
How much force does it take for the crumple zones to work and how do you know if they crumpled? In my old Ram 3500 I crashed into the back of a stopped pickup and it didn't do a whole lot really. It destroyed my brush guard and damaged the radiator and intercooler as well as the hood and fenders. I was going 35mph at time of impact and never hit the brakes since I was looking in the side mirror. It is a 1999 model year so I am sure it has crumple zones.
My parents had a Pinto, it wasn't the gas tank that totalled it, the day after the comprehensive insurance expired, a dogwood tree branch fell on the roof of it, totaling it
Almost half of these "features" "don't exist" because they were NEVER implemented on production vehicles! Also many fotos of these "dangerous features" are fotos of race cars. Race cars do have metal dashes but they also have a 5 point seat belt system that even in a high speed impact or even in roll-over protects the driver is better protected than most "safety features" in todays vehicules. No mention is of how dangerous air bags are if you don't use seat belts. Etcetera...
The Thunderbird swingaway steering wheel was standard equipment on thirds from 1961 thru 1969, hes incorrect saying they had problems not returning to driving position, in fact you coukdnt steer or shift tge car until they were locked into place,
The biggest safety issue with cars is the loose nuts behind the wheel. 😂
Hehe oldies, we're glad it's already the 21st century but then after a few decades we will look just like that.
God bless.
Volvo invented the three point belt and gave the invention for free to other car manufacturers.
I miss my old 70 f100. Forearm steering with yhe gastank in cab right behind the seat, always smelling of gas
As a linguist, it's pretty glaring. 5:03 "shrain", 5:05 "shrained", 5:31 "unreshtricted" ... or should I have said "linguisht"?
"My Gramma was the First Human Test-Driver of the 'Neck-belt' ... We Still, Lovingly ... Display her Head Every Anniversaey of her Birthday, over Our ... Mantle"
You haven't included C pillar mounted 'suicide ' doors.
When they said the future is a bright place
1:50 "Modern materials, like crumple zones"
Aaaaand were done.
The safer the car, the more dangerously people will drive it. People need risks. When there are none, they seek it. If everyone would have an unsafe car, traffic would be a lot safer, because people will think twice before taking a risk.
My 2005 S class Benz has an electric steering wheel that moves out of the way on entry
I have a 1979 Ford Ranchero... I also have a Honda Passport 4X4 SUV...The SUV is "dwarfed" by the Ford... Lots of metal... You can feel the metal when you close the car door... Yea there's some weight to it... LOL
extremely few people realize; slouching / reclining in your seat, sets-you-up to slide under the belts & under the dash !!!
i seen many crash investigations that-concluded that the driver lost all ability during collision to make any braking or steering changes, willfully !!!!..
Anti- lock break sucks there reduce breaking power.
One of the most useless features on one of my cars were paddle shifters.
C'mon man those bumperettes were to meet 5MPH crash standards, nothing else - no sense in saying "in high speed crashes..."
Tucker is not accurately represented by the Volkswagon Beetle!
Nor the converse.
The 48 Tucker was so advanced that the big 3 hated it. It had anti-lock brakes, padded dash, and a cyclops head light that turned with the steering wheel to give light in line with the car's travel.
I had no idea the Beetle was developed by Tucker and not Porsche.
@@Datrebor Uh, when you turn the steering wheel, the fixed headlights go with the direction of the car, right?
@@samr.england613 The two outer one are fixed but the center one moves in the direction the steering wheel turns. So it shines following the curve of the road.
Neck seatbelt = automatic collision decapitation device.
There were no neck seatbelts. I don't recall a single car manufacturer offering them
@@michaelstoliker971 I’ve never seen neck seatbelts in any production or prototype car I’ve worked on. I used to volunteer for a museum restoration shop,so I got to see quite a few cars from 1902 to now. The writers for this video probably put too much emphasis on this item which probably barely made it off the drawing board.
@@michaelstoliker971 Probably experimental
@@michaelstoliker971 They said in the video they were not even tested, they were never released into the market.
@@MissFoxification Then the title of the video should have been "...Old Car Features That Never Existed!"
The most dangerous item is still in all cars on the road today: The driver.
Or highway and street design, especially in the US and Canada. "Keep Right Except to Pass" is not a suggestion, it's the law, but it's not enforced in the US.
And autopilot
Exactly. A study by the US military showed that if this side of the world switched to the German style of getting a licence, 80% of drivers would fail and be off the road.
They are working day and night to change that (auto pilot, etc).
Driver education is much better than it used to be. The further back you look, the worse it was.
How can the non existence of crumple zones be a feature of older cars if they hadn't yet been invented? It's a bit like saying the problem with today's cars is the lack of a zenklebar which is likely to be invented in 2075.
The same with the "non collapsible" steering wheel.
The hydro bumper did actually improve accident repair costs and safety by about 18%. Some police and taxi fleets used them in SF and NYC, them freezing in winter killed that idea.
While obviously not as effective as modern belts, lap belts were a huge improvement over no belts.
Yeah most of these aren't really features but rather the lack of features. The title is misleading.
I disagree. The rigid steering column and the rigid front wings were features, which were replaced by the collapsible steering column and the crumple zones.
Sure, of you want to stay a Y-T pointless argument you can say that the channel creator choose the wrong term in both cases: that the term they used was the improved safer feature that replaced the older rigid feature. But that sort of argument merely shows you are here to pick fights, not to learn from the video.
@@trueriver1950 Just paying attention to detail. It is what thinking people do. Sorry.
Saabs had crumple zones. So did Tucker.
Who remembers 3 or 4 kids sharing 1 seatbelt in the backseat
I remember being in the boot without one ^_^
Who remembers 5 or six sitting in the back with No seat belts!!!
You guys had seat belts?
@@weesejr yeah, in a Buick Riviera, that thing was a tank,
In 86 i had a 59 chevy stepside pickup with all metal dash. All metal interior, actually. Gas tank behind the seat that leaked if you filled it too the rubber hose fitting. If it came stock with seatbelts, they weren't there when i bought it. Had built in step inside the door. Kept me and my girl from getting busted with a half case by hiding it in the passenger side step. Damn i loved that truck!
That was a beautiful and well built truck 🚚 ❤
@@steventrosiek2623 I had a similar 69!
Neck seatbelts were never a thing. According to Snopes "the concept appears to have been inspired by a scene in the 2008 film "The Onion Movie"". Totally debunked and it took a single search engine query to find it.
You have to be an idiot to look at the picture of a neck seatbest and believe it was real. The creator didn't do his homework.
He mentioned they were just a consideration. Pay attention.
@@Littlemissdirtbag Nope! They were never a real consideration.
A concept, like many space age looking cars, that were only a fleeting thought.
4:01 "The traditional steering wheel, the oldest invention in automotive history..."
The earliest cars used tiller steering, not wheels, so...yeah.
Im pretty sure the actual wheel was invented before we needed to steer anything 😂🤣🤣😂
I believe the oldest invention in automotive history has to be the engine... that is, after all, what allows it to be an "auto-mobile" as opposed to a horse-drawn buggy or wagon.
@@FarmRanchHomestead I was just about to say; As _Automobile_ is simply _Mobile with an engine_ and an upgrade from more traditional arrangements, surely the _oldest_ thing in automotive history is the Horse? 😇
(¹ - Unless - Before Horses were used - Some other animal was employed for motive traction. 🐘)
The wheel was the oldest invention in automotive history... or was the steering wheel invented before the wheel???
Calling the lack of a not-yet-invented safety feature a "feature" is disingenuous. The neck-belt is a feature, but the "lack of crumple zones" is not a feature. This video would better be described (and titled) as "new features in modern cars and other automotive features that no longer exist." To suggest that these "lacking" features were themselves features implies that cars were specifically designed to eliminate crumple zones, headrests, and shoulder belts, for example.
Loving those older days, older car ads and all those beautiful cars...miss those days of very individual cars. You could straight away what car you were looking at or better...driving 😢
One thing is for certain. Seeing these vehicles reminds me of the fact that I am truly old.
Hood ornaments originally were the radiator caps. Some car companies made fancy radiator caps and aftermarket companies made custom ones. The hood ornament was a carry over, now just for looks without any function anymore
My brother in law (a Surgeon) has a 100 point 1930 Cadillac limo. He has two radiator caps. One with the thermometer, the second is a leaded crystal hawk that stands about 10 inches high and is appraised at 25000. Needless to say, the hawk radiator cap is kept under close watch to prevent theft and is not on the car when driving.
Pontiac had an optional lighted ornament .
The hood ornament WAS functional. If you sight past the hood ornament to the edge of the asphalt you were guaranteed your vehicle was in the center of your lane.
I had a 1931 Packard with the famous ornamental radiator cap. Some cretin stole it, and I had to settle for a gas-cap to replace it.
My father used to work with a guy who drove some English luxury car in the 1950s (Rolls, Jaguar, Lagonda, or something like that) and he took the radiator cap/ornament into the office with him each day to keep it from getting stolen.
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, the only water bumpers I saw were on Checker taxi cabs.
In 1965 in NJ, all vehicles sold were required to have lap belts.
@@2pugman The comment was about water bumpers but I believe the federal safety belt mandate was in 1965 as well
The so-called "Pop-Out" windshields you show are all TILT-OUT windshields. A popular style on cars of the 1920s & 1930s used for ventilation. They were a somewhat popular customization on the VW Beetles during the late 1960s & 1970s.
“BEHOLD! THE DECAP-INATOR!” (Neck seat belt)
If Doofenshmirtz really wanted to be evil.
did he cover seatbelts for motorcycles? I fell alseep.
This was NEVER implemented on any production car. It was one of those wierd and freaky things that were thrown out there on show cars used by manufacturers to attract atention to their cars at manafacturers cars expositions.
The made a DEMO FILM of this "feature" and showed it at car shows (Motorama, etc) and in showrooms using 8mm and later Super 8mm projectors.
By the late 1970's, the few remaining hood ornaments were attached with a braided wire, which were in turn attached to a stout spring somewhere under the hood.
I had a beautiful stock Leaper hood ornament on my 2005 Jaguar.
Yeah they were like those toys you push the bottom and it flops, let go and it stands up.
That tradition with the spring and wire lasted quite a while.
When I went to the drag strip in my 82 cutlass I’d turn the hood ornament sideways to lower wind resistance as a joke,
@@PhilOsGarage Did you remove the antenna as well, that can knock off at least a tenth of a second. As a joke. :-)