20 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That Faded Into History!

[@oldarkie3880]

Today to most dangerous feature is touch screens for everything forcing you to take eyes off the road.

[@MikeinVirginia1]

A friend showed me his new BMW and there was a big screen in the middle and another behind the steering wheel! Looked like a distraction machine.

[@dcallan812]

And in the US the average person buying trucks is leading to more fatal accidents. A truck is set up for a working situating and manufactures have found ways around safety laws Like the slab front's on a truck, or not being able to see if child has walked in front of the vehicle at a crossing. The crash testing system is unequal on commercial vs consumer vehicle too, much more in consumers cars. .

[@markrossow6303]

​@@dcallan812 Yes. It is about CAFE standards never having the weight max increased

[@Fred-mp1vf]

And cell phones, and excessively bright headlights.

[@daver1427]

Our 2015 T&C requires accessing most of the HVAC direction *windshield, torso, feet through the infotainment screen. It can take 15 seconds to change from feet/ torso/ windshield direction.

[@yarsivad000.5]

I'm 59 and these are the first neck seat belts I've ever seen or heard of. 🤐

[@maxspeed57]

I'm 67 and I've never seen a car with these belts. To me, it's obvious that is a horrible idea. I don't know how that ever went into production.

[@gregrowe1168]

I think they said it never actually did. It was tested and the testers hated them. I remember the automatic seat belts though. People would simply unlatch them once they closed the door so they weren’t really that effective.

[@billcorn5172]

@@gregrowe1168 I have a '92 Jaguar XJ6 Sovereign with automatic shoulder belt and the lap belt is completely manual. It is easy to forget the lap belt.

[@edkeil3320]

​@@maxspeed57Dude, it's a gag, a spoof, like in Mad Magazine ! This 💩 ain't real !!! 😅😅😢

[@maxspeed57]

@@edkeil3320 Dam nits

[@SurfingFLA]

T-Tops more likely faded away because they leaked water, driving the car dealer service managers and customers to the edge of insanity.

[@marlonturner226]

You are so right I have a 84 mercury capri with t tops I love it until it rains

[@blackholeentry3489]

@@marlonturner226 Uh....Try riding motorcycles for over 60 years...just like I did!

[@carlbarkham3115]

Volvo invented the 3 point seat belts. They refused to patent the idea so more lives could be saved by letting other manufacturers make them to the same specifications.

[@deevanderheiden]

Volvo makes more safety improvements than anyone else. Volvo semis are the safest trucks on the road.

[@zeedustrakok]

Volvo did patent the 3 point seatbelt. But they made it free to use.

[@theislander-sj1kq]

SAAB too.

[@ghw7192]

Mercedes invented ABS and did the same thing, putting saving lives over profits

[@zeedustrakok]

@@ghw7192 Mercedes didn’t invent ABS, it used a Bosch system and there were some cars before with ABS. However it was first used on airplanes (both mechanical and electronic ABS).

[@dorcom]

The one not pointed out but the most common: touchscreens with no tactile feedback or other physical presence feedback so one always has to look at it thus looking away from the road!

[@snowrocket]

Yeah, lots of "tech buyers" praise Tesla's "minimalist interior design" and flatscreen, but they know NOTHING about car safety. Regular switches and knobs are far safer when you need to have your eyes on the road.

[@markrossow6303]

​@@snowrocket yes -- airline pilots are finding the same

[@snowrocket]

@@markrossow6303 That's scary. Here's a crazy, novel idea: Let's ask the end users what THEY think would be more user-friendly!

[@xdfaceondabeat]

they only use touchscreens because buttons cost more

[@pathunter7003]

@dorcom Yea, they used to call them buttons or knobs😖

[@Joe-ey7cu]

We need to go back to all manual transmissions , with one hand on the wheel and the other on the stick, you can't text.

[@peterbaruxis2511]

You can steer with yoer knees.

[@Joe-ey7cu]

@peterbaruxis2511 you can't steer with your knees when you push in the clutch and you can't turn a corner with your knees.

[@MasterYoist]

Plus you could start the engine even without s battery.

[@BenCarling-z9l]

Drum brakes were on cars way after 1960 -

[@silicon212]

you can still buy new cars and trucks with drum brakes today.

[@grandreefer]

Yep but it isnt about practicality. Disc brakes still show to be more effective over time but drum brakes are much more easily produced and cheaper too. So when building a vehicle these days and they want cut some corners they often insert drum brakes as part of the cost cut. That being said, it is important to note that drum brakes are making a big comeback by way of evs because of how they work with motors on each of the wheels. I don't understand it fully but notice that a lot more evs do have drum brakes these days.

[@michaellinner7772]

Most manufacturers didn't bring disc brakes to their vehicles until the late 60s, and then only the front brakes. The real danger in the braking systems back then was the single circuit systems.

[@markrossow6303]

​@michaellinner7772 yes

[@michiganmotorsports]

They have way more braking surface area than disc brakes also.

[@kenschmidt6522]

The seat belts in my early 70s Nova doubled as bottle openers.

[@Steve-tl7zo]

Neck seatbelts were NEVER a thing, it was a joke from way back in the 60s.

[@ianfleming4397]

THATS JUST SICK !!!

[@deevanderheiden]

Current car features that are totally unsafe. Electric windows that don't work if your car isn't running. Trapping you in the vehicle.

[@nathanmeece9794]

The propeller in front would come in handy today when you come up to a group of people blocking the road 😂

[@nickbrutanna9973]

True, but a bit messy.

[@edkeil3320]

Nate, are you off your meds again ? 😬💊🗡

[@josephgaviota]

@@edkeil3320 It's OK, only D€ms would be in the way.

[@mandolinic]

I recall this was a selling feature of the British Austin Boudicca, which used actual knives as propeller blades.

[@josephgaviota]

@@mandolinic "Cutting Edge" technology !

[@hbcaptain1]

Jaguars had a jaguar hood ornament, not leopard.

[@tjmone74]

I caught that too. Hilarious.

[@wmalden]

I thought he said “the leper” instead of “the leaper”.

[@cuseyeti_one8three]

Hence the name.

[@mikeweizer3149]

@@hbcaptain1 I wish alot of these ugly ass new cars and crossovers and SUVS would fade into history along with alot of those dumbass drivers!!.

[@edkeil3320]

😂😂😂😂

[@justsmitty1709]

I miss floor dimmer switches. Did taking them off the floor make cars safer?

[@Solitaire001]

It likely it made the electrical wiring simpler since it could be incorporated as part of the light switch.

[@justsmitty1709]

@@Solitaire001 I don't think so. Compare a sixties wiring harness to a present day harness. Night and day.

[@robertheinkel6225]

I think it was more like the cars were larger back then and had more room on the floor. Modern cars wouldn’t have room for a switch on the floor.

[@jvmiller1995]

No for years after rednecks kept getting their feet stuck in the wheel.

[@colehara]

​@@Solitaire001 I liked those floor dimmer switches as well but I live in the north where there's a lot of road salt in the winter. Slushy boots with road salt on them would make those switches jam after a few years. However they were easy to replace.

[@sooverit5529]

Ford's Swing-Away steering wheel (61-66) and later Tilt-Away (67-69) worked very well and was well designed. It was impossible for the wheel to move into the Away mode with the transmission lever moved out of park. The only reason it was discontinued was the introduction of the column mounted locking ignition switch in 1970.

[@Johnnycdrums]

Agreed.

[@jeffreydove821]

Yeah. I had one. Never an issue, except the transmission linkage needed to be kept adjusted so the lever couldn't jump out of park when the wheel wasn't pushed to the right.

[@crazyjun8000]

I love my 66 tbirds sterung wheel everytime i get out someone ask me to tilt it so they can see

[@crazyjun8000]

​@@jeffreydove821mine as well

[@marko7843]

​@@jeffreydove821 ... and THAT problem with staying in Park, for some reason, afflicted many Ford / Mercury/Lincoln column shifters for over a decade!

[@tjmone74]

"The Jaguar Hood Ornament, a leopard."😂😂😂😂

[@wmalden]

I thought he said “the leper”. Of course, it’s “the leaper”.

[@johnmore4155]

@@tjmone74 Yes that made laugh too.

[@johnmore4155]

@@wmalden No, it's a Jaguar

[@wmalden]

@@johnmore4155It is known as “The Jaguar Leaper” or The Leaper” for short. Probably more used in England.

[@acgsmith5937]

Cougar😀

[@carlmontney7916]

When bench seats went away. Teenage boys cried real tears.

[@John-jd7mm]

Well, me and my girl always do it in the back seat anyway!😉

[@TorCow1234]

My 1995 Firebird had what I referred to as the "birth control console". It was so wide that you couldn't even put your arm around the passenger without looking like a total mook.

[@TobyBaker-hz3rw]

Population control

[@carlmontney7916]

@@TobyBaker-hz3rw LOL

[@JohnnieWalkerDread]

It's how you learned how the girl felt about you. If she slid over to be next to you, you got a catch.

[@teasea3152]

I was born in 1952 so I've seen a lot of the evolution of safety features that have been implemented in autos. When I was a small child I remember a car that my dad had that had a knob like a choke. It was a throttle that could be pulled out to adjust the engine speed. When I asked my dad what it was for he told me that on a long trip it could be used to take your foot off of the accelerator pedal and maintain your speed. It was an early cruise control. The thing that made it dangerous was that you didn't tap the brake to disengage it, you had to push it back in manually!

[@Colorado_Native]

I bought a brand new International Scout II when I graduated high school. It came from the factory with a winch and a throttle like you mentioned. Its purpose was to increase engine speed while winching, otherwise the battery could be drained. We did use it a few times as a cruise control though.

[@pcno2832]

The real reason for the choke was to allow the engine to run when it was cold by increasing the amount of fuel in the mixture. You could use it as a makeshift cruise control, but it would have been a very inefficient one. Most U.S. cars made after the 1950s had automatic chokes, and later electronic fuel injection systems integrated the choke's function into the electronics and software of the engine controls.

[@Colorado_Native]

@@pcno2832 True, but the knob on my Scout's dash was actually a throttle. It allowed higher engine RPM while using the winch. One would normally be outside the vehicle while operating the winch. My much older Scout did have a manual choke, but you normally wouuld push it in once the engine was warming up. Thanks for the reply.

[@rickh6955]

That was originally a choke not a cruise control. You could have used it as a cruise control I suppose as you say. Car manufacturers had it in there so that when it was cold you could pull that and it would give the engine more fuel so that it would rev a little higher just like it does today only it was manual very similar to a lawn mower if you remember those

[@teasea3152]

@@rickh6955 It was a throttle marked with a T.. The choke was a separate knob marked with a C.

[@ragtowne]

My 1969 Ford Mustang has the tilt-a-way steering wheel even if the release mechanism were to accidentally operate while driving the steering wheel is still mechanically connected to the rest of the steering mechanism you won’t lose control also the mechanism is normally “locked“ and has two separate interlocks (the ignition must be turned off and the drivers door must be open) for it to unlock

[@MikeyMack303]

The clip of Jay Leno's experience in the "Hemi Under Glass" was NOT due to the "swing-away steering wheel"!

[@oldrrocr]

and that just happened a few years ago... (funny to watch though, as no one got hurt)

[@walkergillette3918]

A T-Top roof seems a lot safer than a regular convertible top that are still around today

[@JosephDawson1986]

Only marginally so but yeah a rollover in a t top or a convertible could be deadly.

[@gooney0]

Yeah. The 82 T-tops were replaced by a one piece top in 84. I've never heard of T-Tops being a safety issue. Surely safer than a convertible which they still make today.

[@KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain]

@@gooney0 The Bandit never had a problem!!!

[@whollymindless]

Automatic belts in the early 90s were miserable.

[@RT22-pb2pp]

I lived mine in 90 maxima reminded me to do.lap belt. In my state it was early 90s when belts became mandatory, had driven gor yrs no belt, took me time to make it habit

[@jreagins1]

Padded dashboards and dual-stage brake systems are two of the biggest safety enhancement for cars.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

I like how the 1948 Tucker had it's so called, "safety chamber" as demonstrated at 19:45 in this video. Preston Tucker felt putting seat belts in his innovative car would possibly scare people away from buying it. So instead, he came up with the "safety chamber" for the front passengers. Here's how it's supposed to work according to a 1948 Tucker, sales brochure I have: "Under the cowl (dashboard) is a specious safety chamber, protected by steel bulkheads, which driver and front seat occupants can drop into, in a split second, in case of impending collision." I wonder who got to go first "in case of impending collision?"

[@blackholeentry3489]

Women & Children first....JUST like on the Titanic!

[@dannydobbs669]

With that big fan in front you won’t have to worry about bugs on your windshield 😂

[@csi1392]

THE OPPOSITE WOULD BE TRUE

[@morrisjvan]

just imagine a bird strike !

[@pathunter7003]

@@morrisjvan have you ever see the amount left on a car after a goose let one go?🤮, then have a propeller purée it?

[@richardhowlett7398]

And now we have touchscreens 😵‍💫

[@CountDuckula83]

"By the 1980's T-tops were phased out" My 95' Firebird disagrees with you.

[@georgegbalzano9239]

Let's face it, If you're a pedestrian hit by a car, the HOOD ORNAMENT is the LEAST of your troubles to worry about...

[@TheHelado36]

Totally agree!

[@solsol1624]

Sorry but disagree. If it's a slow impact that you might otherwise limp away from, you could still have your guts ripped out. 30mph plus totally agree with you

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

I miss them!

[@TalesFromTheBlahSide]

Please explain your logic.

Most frontal ornaments were either flexibly mounted or on fasteners designed to break away. Though without a doubt very early examples of mascots were solidly mounted and potentially very dangerous.

[@RobertKlasz]

Neck seatbelts never were used in any production vehicles !

[@SamLove-l2p]

Dangerous Hood Ornaments, is the name of my new band.

[@LazyIRanch]

Cool! I'm starting a punk band called "The Decapitating Neck Restraints"!

[@blackholeentry3489]

I loved the '54 Pontiac hood ornament....that deep yellow Indian head on the front of the hood aglow when driving with the headlights on.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

You could buy hood ornaments for just about anything in the 60s through JCWhitneys. I had a 4" tall mustang on my Mustang.

[@LazyIRanch]

@@mrcryptozoic817 Whitney always had some great ones! I wish I'd bought the "Big Daddy Ed Roth" Rat Fink one they used to have. I remember some of JC Whitney hood ornaments even had lights in them.

[@joeylawn36111]

😎👍

[@bobbyheffley4955]

Another dangerous location for gas tanks was in the cab of pickup trucks.

[@maxspeed57]

Some design features are just mind boggling. I guess they used to really live the YOLO life.

[@levyoliver5363]

Other than that, the gas tank behind the pickup truck seats steals useful space behind the cab! 😂

[@levyoliver5363]

In singlecab pickup trucks, the space behind the seats are useful spaces for essencial stuffs such as small toolbox and a fire extingisher

[@harrygatto]

WW2 Jeeps had the petrol tank under the driver's seat.

[@flouisbailey]

The gas cap only inches from drivers door on pickups to go with that tank.

[@cannissolis]

Hood ornaments, "and jaguars featuring the leopard" are you effing kidding me, ya don't suppose it's meant to be a jaguar by any chance!

[@augusthawks6576]

Say what you want about unsafe lap belts, they saved my life twice.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

They saved me only once while driving an 8-ton truck.

[@guillaumepare9651]

Yeah that one is shaddy. Lap bealt were a major improvement over...no belts (as mentionned). I think it's Tucked that introduced that in his cars. But 3 points belts was another major improvement.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@guillaumepare9651 Actually, Preston Tucker didn't want safety belts in his cars. Instead, he designed a steel "safety chamber" for the driver and front passenger where they'd quickly drop into it in a split second "in case of an impending collision."

[@debeeriz]

and i bet a lot of people owe their existence to bench seats, l lost my virginty on one

[@maxspeed57]

@@WAL_DC-6B What?

[@victorjones7071]

The neck seat belt works as good as an ejector seat on a helicopter.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johnking6252]

For passenger use only ! Hahahaha 😂

[@Lurch-Bot]

I like that one. Used to work in aviation maintenance. Actually, there are some helicopters with ejection systems. They are either downward firing (which isn't terribly useful if you are flying close air support) or the ejection sequence starts by separating the blades with explosive bolts.

[@markrossow6303]

​@@Lurch-Botyes

[@berlinkozyreva]

They do make ejecter seats for helicopters. Have saved many lives.

[@ScrewFlanders]

"Neck seatbelts" only ever existed as a gag in "The Onion Movie," made in 2008.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

Remember steering wheel knobs? You didn't have to hold the wheel to turn, you steered by holding the knob.

[@kenhoyer8601]

They called them suicide knobs.

[@elhombrebilingue]

They use these on modern forklifts in warehouses. They make it easier to turn, I find.

[@steven6709]

@@elhombrebilingue Also for people who don't have the use of one arm.

[@EdTechRen]

Did you know that many cars are fueled by a flammable, explosive liquid? What are they thinking? And wait until you hear about electric car batteries!

[@edkeil3320]

Tell us more, Uncle Ed!🙄

[@lusoverse8710]

True, but that's no reason not to reduce other hazards. The more dangerous cars are, the higher insurance premiums become, which is a good reason in itself for making them safer.

[@marko7843]

@@EdTechRen and BMW is making hydrogen cars, I think they're called Hindenburners...

Absolutely crazy. I'm so glad they now use centralised, hard to reach incendiary devices which can spontaneously reignite after allegedly being extinguished and even burn under water. Far safer!

[@marko7843]

That might have been a bit too subtle, but I GOT IT! LOL

[@n4lle476]

the waist seatbelt once saved my life in a crash where the car rolled over 3 times into a ditch that killed one person so im gratefull for wearing the seatbelt

[@pcno2832]

22:19 There was nothing unusual about the design of the Pinto's fuel tank; most of its competitors had the tank in the same place and the Pinto's fire death rate (only 27 deaths in 2 million cars) was no higher than that of most of its competitors. The changes Ford was forced to make to the cars had almost no effect on their overall safety because fires cause only a tiny fraction of automotive deaths. The Pinto aside, there were some scarey fuel tank designs in earlier years, with fuel fillers in the luggage compartment in the pre-1960s VW Beetle and in the engine compartment in the Trabant. Before WWII, fuel fillers in scary places were even more common than they were when the Beetle and Trabant were made.

[@davidpowell3347]

There was a wood or metal style screw in a position where the sharp end could get driven into the gas tank in a rear end collision that otherwise would not have perforated the gas tank. I don't think the Oldsmobile had that problem although it had a similar set up with the gas tank slightly rearward of the rear bumper. Of course the rear of the Olds was a bit stronger than that of the Pinto and the tank was a bit higher above the road. Since the car and its wheels and tires were bigger. My WJ Jeep has a rear gas tank but there is some serious metal between it and a possible striking car in the form of the drawbar supporting the hitch receiver and some armor like sheet metal under the tank that is supposed to prevent rocks from tearing the bottom of the tank open if you drive over rocks that are too big for the ground clearence to pass over.

[@marko7843]

I do remember that, I think, the bumper bolts were too long and protruded out much farther than they needed to toward the fuel tank. However, the main flaw was neither of those, it was the fuel filler pipe that came disconnected on impact and let a ton of fuel out.

[@furrywolfjuggalo1888]

There’s some older models of cars from Germany and Russia that has the fuel tank right above the engine and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more deaths from that then the pinto

[@davidhatton583]

This is true… the biggest difference was pintos were much more lightly built and had the unfortunate placement of axle bolts in front of the tank

[@daver1427]

IF memory serves me... some trucks *78 GMC? some earlier? had the fuel tank behind the bench seat Inside the cab. The fill cap was just behind the door ... near the latch.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

According to Federal highway safety statistics, on a per capita basis, you were twice as likely to die in a vehicular accident in 1946 than you are today.

[@thegreenbird795]

no doubt

[@debeeriz]

our higest road toll was in 73 now its about a third of what it was back then

[@tinkerstrade3553]

Henry Ford started the Darwin Awards!🤣

[@TobyBaker-hz3rw]

😂

[@custer2449]

I LOVE dangerous hood ornaments!!! The main reason for getting rid of them was from one nut bag pedestrian who sued - and won - for something that really didn't happen.

[@Reubenhubert]

The most dangerous part of every car is the nut behind the steering wheel. They still haven’t figured out how to replace it.

[@Fred-mp1vf]

Tesla is trying to, but I'd rather not put my life into the hands of a questionable computer system.

​@@Fred-mp1vf Damn right. I've seen too many examples of FSD doing at best questionable things and at worst plain dangerous.

[@RWZiggy]

@@Fred-mp1vf yeah replace nut behind wheel with nuts behind keyboards

[@crsrdash-840b5]

Oh that's easy! Stop having children. In about 20 years the problem will be solved!

[@vlratcliffe1]

This has to be the best ever reply to a car question iv ever seen . .so simple it's genius...

[@DeutschlandGuy]

08:34 The 1969 El Camino SS is among the few without headrests... The photo shows they CLEARLY had headrests. And at 08:51 they talk about "the importance of headrests in preventing whiplash injuries during rear-end collisions, with the video showing a head-on collision. Sloppy film editing! Try actually reviewing the photos in your videos before you publish.

[@davidpowell3347]

I think my Chevrolet Citation had "high back" seats (no headrest but the top of the seatback extended higher than most people's head height.

[@crneube]

I just ordered a set of neck seatbelts. I can't wait to install them.

[@alm7707]

you do know that no car ever had a neck seatbelt? that was made up as a joke. I actually saw a water bumper on a new '67 Impala. I laugh at the danger hood ornaments posed. What about the damage hoods fenders and bumpers could do to a pedestrian?

[@TheOldNeighborhood]

I remember NYC Checker cabs with water bumpers.

[@LazyIRanch]

After seeing a Tesla truck up close, I have concerns about how a pedestrian vs Tesla truck body would fare. That thing has very sharp corners (besides being about the ugliest vehicle I've ever seen). The truck I saw had considerable amounts of rust, too. I thought those were supposed to be stainless steel?

[@BerraPettersson]

VOLVO - their innovations has saved millions of lives...

[@markrossow6303]

almost bought a 240 wagon a couple weeks ago ...

[@TobyBaker-hz3rw]

Bubble wrapped world.😴😁

[@grahamfisher5436]

Hello My grandfather's cousin invented the world's 2nd greatest road / driving safety device.. 🛣 😻

[@jvmiller1995]

how do you call wrist steering on this list when it was never used in production?

[@Acemechanicalservices]

And “neck belts” were?

[@robertmccully2792]

I have 64 galaxies with swing away,, love it.

[@mikejames4540]

When talking about hood ornaments: ‘Jaguar’s leopard…’ Leopard?😅

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

leaper

[@stanwolenski9541]

@@BariumCobaltNitrog3nI heard leaper which I found interesting, I never knew it was specifically called that.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

@@stanwolenski9541 Neither did I, thanks google!

[@tahoemike5828]

Anybody remember when cars had multiple cigarette lighters?

[@watauga6510]

My Lincoln had 4 lighters and 4 ashtrays! so luxurious for a smoker.

[@speedandstyletony]

Drum brakes are still in use. Not as common but still used on some vehicles.

[@robertheinkel6225]

Mostly on the rear axles

[@ChristianMcAngus]

They are fine as rear brakes for lighter, less powerful cars. They can be more reliable, and are good as reserve brakes for electric cars.

[@lexlayabout5757]

My car has them on the rear for the handbrake. The rear wheels have a combined disk and drum, a common arrangement.

​@@ChristianMcAngus They're also coming back for a lot of EVs as the motor does a lot of the braking.

[@Acemechanicalservices]

“Made of metal, the ornaments could cause severe injuries to pedestrians” As opposed to the rest of the speeding 3000 pound object which was made of cotton candy and massage slippers.

[@AppliedCryogenics]

Collapsing engine compartments.. I have a feeling there must be another solution, but because a totaled car is a car needing replacement, the industry embraced it.

[@Johnnycdrums]

"Just wait till you hear about bench seats?"

[@andyinsdca]

The "neck belt" was a spoof idea, not real. But thanks for trying.

[@MrBrian000]

Amazing how car safety development is just trial and error

[@zfunk123]

The only thing I got from this video is, remove the cool and make vehicles more forgiving for sloppy drivers.

[@tommunyon2874]

My parent's 1950 Ford sedan had a metal Kleenex box holder under the glove compartment. They got in a fender-bender while my mother was pregnant with me. She tore her nylon stocking and her knee on the sharp metal holder in the accident. Of course the dashboard in the Ford and the 1956 Plymouth that replaced it was made of metal. Great for magnetically mounted Jesus, not so good for human foreheads.

[@Colorado_Native]

Way back when I was a little kid, my parents had a 1956 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe, pink and white, that had a tissue dispenser, but it was mounted under the front seat and it rotated out. Not sure if factory or after market.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

I have one of those metal (stainless steel) Kleenex dispensers in my 1953 Hudson.

[@billcorn5172]

Our 66 Rambler Ambasador had the Kleenex box under the dash too.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@billcorn5172 Did it have an embossed Rambler logo on it?

[@billcorn5172]

@@WAL_DC-6B No, it had a chrome front with a big wide V molded into the front. The rest of the shell was steel with a peble grain black vinyl covering. It had the pivot hinge post on the left. The rear was open for the box to slide in.

[@onekoneb]

The whole thing about Pinto having gas tanks behind the rear axle - EVERY CAR MADE has the gas tank behind the rear axle. The Pinto was vulnerable because a steel bar from the frame would penetrate the tank when struck from the rear.

[@MostlyHarmless86]

My '69 Mustang Grande had the swing away steering wheel. I loved it. I still move the wheel up when I go to get out of my F-150 now.

[@kar4938]

My first car was a '63 Dodge Dart. The cool thing about it was it had push buttons to change gear. The very dangerous features were the bucket seats had no locking mechanism and no seat belts in the back.

[@LDiamondz]

I was looking to see if anybody remembered the push button gear shifters! My father had a station wagon with the same feature. The buttons were on the lower part of the dash, by your left hand. That could be dangerous for some people. Glad you posted this! 😊

[@glennso47]

Hood ornaments were also popular with young thieves who stole them for necklaces.

[@debeeriz]

lt took a while to get used to not having one on the bonnet, i had nothing to aim with or tell me where the front of the car was

[@kkfoto]

I miss my classic Mercedes with a star on the hood. And yes, it was stolen once.

[@8Nguy1948]

They should have used the 65 1/2 66 Mustang , which used the top of the fuel tank as the floor of the trunk ! 😮

[@stevedyer302]

We had the Hillman Hunter in the UK with the same feature!

[@runewilliamwaltoft2260]

And the Ford Taunus in Europe

[@alanmuxlow7093]

Did that guy just say that jaguar had a leopard hood ornament?!😂

[@jakereal3604]

WOW I should junk my 1967 Thunderbird right now! It has 2 no no's LOL Tilt away steering column, No head rests, and only lap belt. What a dangerous car I've own the past 35 years!!!!! Anyone want it, I'll give it to you FREE

[@ozziecrosby2092]

I'll take it!! 😀

[@John-jd7mm]

Well Jake, I am assuming that you are a very safe driver, considering your classic car. I used to drive my mint-condition 1967 Camaro only to car shows and/or restrict myself to Sunday driving, when there is little or no traffic. Unless you drive drunk, I doubt you have much to worry about. 😀

[@marthaperdew]

The hood ornaments were gorgeous!

[@musicauthority674]

Ford was the first American auto manufacturer to introduce seat belts. (lap belts only) to their production vehicles. along with padded dashboards in 1956.

[@kewlztertc5386]

Propeller driven cars would be useful for hot rural areas, lije desert communities.

[@rayfridley6649]

@15:30-There was asbestos clutch linings as well.

[@ChieFChalinOLarssoN]

I think there still is in some countries.

[@robertheinkel6225]

And brake linings

[@YTChiefCritic]

What an awful video - adding scratches to perfectly good footage - people are trying to RESTORE film and you're trying to destroy it? And by the way - many of these features were not dangerous unless you were involved in a serious accident.

[@ian3580]

.....which is kind of the point....we generally try to avoid features that are dangerous in an accident

[@furrywolfjuggalo1888]

@@ian3580the T top is safe unless you somehow roll over and the car wings and rocket looking aren’t even a safety concern

[@ian3580]

@@furrywolfjuggalo1888 The T-top affects more than just rollover, and also affects side rigidity. Ever see a vehicle thats been t-boned or wrapped around a tree? The roof structure gives a lot of additional rigidity in side impacts for modern cars.

[@TobyBaker-hz3rw]

Just conform and obey.😁

[@dennycelestinohybridspecies]

I got one you definitely need to put on a part two video, fuel tanks in pickup trucks directly behind the bench seat. I remember my dad having a few vintage pickups like that.

[@gwenwheeler1248]

Wait till your self driving car takes you for a uncontrollable hell ride! 69 chevy here i come

[@colehara]

Agreed! I tried one recently. Very scary feeling.

[@TooLooze]

My 1966 Tbird steering wheel only moved horizontally.

[@ZEZERBING]

I had a 67 cougar. The swing away steering wheel worked great.

[@billcorn5172]

They show that one too. I had a 67 T-Bird and it had the diagonal tilt like the Cougar. Loved it. Like other's said, it would not allow the car to be shifted out of park when tilted. There was a mechanical interlock. The reason it went away is because of the column mounted key, there wasn't enough room for both.

[@JosephGores-qu1qw]

My daily driver ( 2000 crown Victoria) has a split bench seat and I love it. .my 96 Mazda pickup had it too. And drum brakes are still common.. They work better than discs in hybrids because they work better with regenerative braking. Most cars still use them in rear. My 2000 crown Vic has lap belts in center seat ( which is rarely used).

[@timothyhein8400]

This list is ridiculous.

[@guyl9456]

One of the best videos I have seen on the subject. A taboo one especially in America. I am surprised though that large metal knob components and huge door handles that acted like a huge blade on the body in case of an accident.

[@jamesmooney8933]

In the early 60's, Rambler offered headrests in Rambler as an option, but only on the front passenger seat. It was not offer for the drivers seat.

[@LazyIRanch]

I can't think of the Rambler car without hearing that song in my head by Diesel, "Sausalito Summernight". I'm sure there's at least one other person who remembers that funny song about driving a POS car on a road trip!🚗😆 "Another mile or two to Frisco two hundred gallons from LA The engine's thumpin like a disco We ought to dump her in the bay!"

[@jamesmooney8933]

@LazyIRanch Are you talking about "beep-beep" it was made about '60. The song was about a man driving a Cadillac, and a Nash Rambler pulls up behind him. The Rambler goes beep-beep to pass the Caddy. The Caddy driver gets mad, because he considers it an insult for a Caddy to pass up a Caddy. The Caddy driver goes as fast as the Caddy can go. The Rambler pulls up along side the Caddy and shouts "how do you get this car out of 2nd gear. The song is called "beep-beep". You can Google it to hear it.

[@cliffcorson4000]

On the asbestos brake pads. Like many items that used asbestos it was newer technologies that allowed them to be phased out

[@glennschemitsch8341]

Did we forget about plate glass windows before safety glass.

[@rkelsey3341]

Taking the headlight dimmer switch off the floor and moving it to the steering column was dangerous at the time. Lots of Aggies wanting to dim their lights got a big toe stuck in the steering wheel!

[@ovalwingnut]

I remember those devil "neck seat-belts".... people were losing their minds over those dastardly things!

[@LDiamondz]

And sometimes, their heads! 😮

[@mikeh892]

"You'll see things you've never seen before!" Like an orthopedic surgeon for your severe whiplash.

[@uselesscause3178]

How many airbags have been recalled across how many vehicle companies?

[@Mr.Deko86]

At first, I thought that the wrist-twist-swivel system would have been really cool, but then again, it would have been normal to us now without much appreciation.. I think the concept was ahead of it's time.

[@gregrowe1168]

In older regular cab pickup trucks, the lack of a headrest was even a greater safety concern. The back glass was right behind you. In a hard rear collision, the back of your head would slam into it violently. Serious brain injuries were common.

[@TexasEngineer]

You could break the back window too.

[@MrAranton]

What‘s the difference between a rigid steering column and a non-collapsible steering column?

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

Yes.

[@S.E.C-R]

I remember a lot of these features, especially the bench seat. I remember standing up on the front seat leaning up against my mom’s right shoulder. I also remember falling into the dash when she would brake hard. That was before the automatic arm swing became popular pinning me up against the seat and sometimes resulted in a black eye if I didn’t get out of the way of her elbow fast enough! 😂

[@charlesdaigneault5041]

ah yes, the good old meat slicer automotive era, when propellers were the thing, they worked both ways, no safety belts so in a sudden hard stop you went trough the winshield and the propeller, very efficient, for pedestrians, the death spin in the grinder. with aft rear prop, backing up is litterally a breeze until the driver gets blown away or gets hit by grinded remains of whatever was sucked in.

[@BorderTerrier-yk2hw]

So Jaguar used a leopard as their mascot: yeah, right.

[@polarbear3427]

nice overview. The lack of a safety feature is not a feature of course.

[@mikefrank8511]

I loved the swivel front seats from late 70's Olds & Pontiacs

[@joshacollins84]

Of course the Lane Motor Museum showed up in a video about odd cars or features! That is just expected now days!😂 I love that place!

[@johnw2026]

I'm tryna picture somebody running from the cops in a prop driven car! 🤣

[@kiralana324]

the irony of the "wrist twist" is that in the late 80's /90' we came up with the butterfly wheel for short travel race cars, then in the 2010's we started using video game controllers to operate sensitive high end equipment (supercars, stealth fighters and even submarines), so really itvwas just ahead of its time

[@ryanr3071]

I can’t help but think that the neck seat belt was thought up as a joke but the bosses loved it so the investors just went with it 😂

[@denverferrell5217]

Nothing here about safe and responsible drivers!

[@michaeltutty1540]

Buses here in Toronto had water filled bumpers fir many years. They worked well. The swing away steering wheel usrd the same mechsnism as a tilt wheel. We still have them.

[@cruzin7749]

My 1965 Rambler has a lot of these features PLUS as an added bonus a metal dash 😂😂😂

[@dallinn9164]

Seeing the fourth-gen Thunderbird swing-away steering column gave me Vietnam flashbacks of having to pull the gauge cluster out of a 65 model. Absolutely horrific design in every way.

[@lordleonusa]

Jaguar featuring the Leopard? Seriously? It's a JAGUAR !!!

[@dangergunner2788]

I miss my Corvette's T-Tops

[@daver1427]

Our 2015 T&C requires accessing most of the HVAC direction *windshield, torso, feet through the infotainment screen. It can take 15 seconds to change from feet/ torso/ windshield direction.