[AT] OT I'm getting older are you?

[Ralph Goff]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT I'm getting older are you?


>I remember most of those nostalgic items, some fondly, some not so much.
>
> The dimmer switch on the floor was not one of the auto industry's better
> ideas -

I stil have more vehicles with the floor dimmer switch than the "new" style 
on the signal light switch.
Floor mounted push button starters were foreign to me when I first drove a 
neighbours 52 Dodge pickup. I'd been used to Fords with their push button 
for the starter on the dash. And of course the locking ignition switch half 
way down the steering column. The ones  I knew all had the key broken off or 
lost and  it was just a matter of flicking the toggle switch on and push the 
button on the dash. Hold the gas pedal just right, hope the old six volt 
battery had enough juice to fire up the flathead V8. I learned a lot about 
old engines on those Fords.
I recall a 59 Buick that somehow incorporated the starter button into the 
gas pedal.

Ralph in Sask.