Good build quality

Bench seat, so my sweetie could cuddle up next to me while I drove.

8-track players that the tape would jam up inside. 🤨

Station wagons. Big ass cars with tons of room. 😀

You guys are reminding me of my age.
Steering wheel knobs.
Riding on the running board.
Crank starters. (Scared me to death because they'd sometimes suddently "kick" into reverse.
The already mentioned bench seats.
Inner tubes. And kits for them with scraper and stick-on patch.
NO AIR CONDITIONOING.
Bumpers that stuck out would get locked together when one car pushed another. The cars were unhooked from each other by someone jumping on a bumper.
A shelf at bottom of back window where a child could ride lying down.
Narowness. There was not room for three people side by side.
FLOOR shifts.
Doors that opened backwards.

The one feature I’ve had in a car that I miss is from a 1995 Ford Taurus. That entire car was a piece of crap, but it had a double Sun visor so you have have both the front and sides blocked at the same time. The only redeeming feature and I’ve never had another car with it.

I found it

I miss my stickshift.😩 Automatic transmissions are boring.

ashtrays and cig lighters in the back doors, would be useful today for cellphones, and candy and gum wrappers. that's what we used them for back then

the little drip rails above the doors so you could crack the windows in the rain without it running into the car, or your doors didn't freeze shut in the winter


standard transmissions

{@latinladybug] on the old british motor company models [ pre british leyland] the wooden dashboards and leather seats that on a hot summers day they got hot and burned your bottom 😄

Cars used to have “wings” on the front doors in front of the other window that you could turn a certain way to keep the wind from blowing in your face and messing up your hair.

I remember when "High beams" had a button on the floor that was controlled by your foot.
Tiny ash trays in the back doors.
cigarette lighters
crank window handles


I had a Ford EXP that was two door and had a removable sun roof LOL it was a POS.

I hated American cars.

My pontiac Sunbird had a "feature" where it would buzz after ten minutes for me to turn off the rear defroster. Like... the engineers couldn't be bothered to turn it off... they had to buzz to remind me.

Back then wasn’t there a Volkswagen or something similar that had it’s backseats facing the other way?

Steel dashboards were a lovely danger. Suicide knobs were common when I was a kid, illegal most places but common. Fender skirts were a nice touch

Fins on the rear fenders. All the cars in the late 50's had fins, presumably to provide stability but solely for marketing.

A lever to switch between the front tank and rear tank. I ran the truck out of gas a few times because of that damn thing.

I thought of another one today, not so much a feature, but an accessory that i haven't seen in a long time:

My 1973 Grand Am had detachable shoulder harnesses for the front seat… just in case you only water lap belts

A large lockable trunk for the Mother in Law.

Can't say I remember that

Automatic seatbelt

Quarter glass windows

Cassette players.

Seats that made a bed

I remember that from driving my mother’s Pinto in the 70s.

Automatic seatbelts.🙂