Round Button On Floor Of Old Cars

Dan dan starnes apr 8 2006.

Round button on floor of old cars.

I remember the switch on my dad s 63 buick lesabre used to be a real pain to stomp on. That little wand does the turn signals high beam low beam windshield washer many different wiping speeds and cruise on off set and resume. Thats waaaaaay to many functions for one lever. 1964 1965 1966 ford mustang auto trans shift plate assy.

Again safety concerns moved the dimmer to the turn signal stalk where ford even experimented with putting the horn for a short period of time. Anyone remember or know when the first american made cars switched from the floor bright light button that you had to step on to the switch on the steering column now generally interconnected with the turn signal lever. Man i am feelin old. The parts supply and quantities used in liste.

It had the floor switch for the dimmer the lack of all other good things and due to me being a broke 17 year old my way of getting around the bad battery it had was to turn on the ignition then push the car up to about 5 10 mph jump in it quick hit the clutch shift it to 1st and dump the clutch. And i mean a floor board. The floor button was down where in order to see it you needed to take your eyes off of the road and so you needed to feel where it is but what was the worst was that in the wintertime sometimes the button got frozen and sometimes i needed to hit it or kick it a few times to allow me to switch the high beams to low beams so i like the. My model a has boards floorboard.

Button on the floor by my left foot. Regarding the extra button in the 99 and also other saabs it was a button located in the panel to be used if the owner of the car wanted to add some electrical equipment to the car like. In the old days it was a button in the general vicinity left of the brake pedal so even in an unfamiliar car all you had to do was tap around with your toe a few times to find it. 03 20 06 04 11 pm post 899142 in response to basicdumby i prefer the button on the floor.

My first car was a 75 vega.