Ten Things Your Kids Will Never Experience In A New Car

[coolmazda5]

Cars are a part of American culture. We grow up in them, live in them, love them, but like the culture they reflect, cars change over time. Here's ten things you experienced your kids probably won't.

1. Vent Windows

2. Crank Windows

3. Keys

4. Vinyl Seats

5. Manual Transfer Cases

6. Jump Seats

7. Being Lost

8. Cigarette Lighters

9. Hanging Your Arm Out The Window

10. The Danger Of Death

Source:
http://jalopnik.com/5320708/ten-thi...rience-in-a-new-car/gallery/?skyline=true&s=i

 

[coolmazda5]

I already kind of miss #1 and #9, but I guess they forgot a critical one, which closely fits with #5:

 

[Protege03ak46]

manual trany? i think they'll always have them. hell im 16 and my first car is a protege 5 speed. and i cant imagine not owning i a manual

 

[not yellow]

ummm... maybe i'm being dense, but i don't get #9. what's stopping anyone?

 

[Protege03ak46]

ummm... maybe i'm being dense, but i don't get #9. what's stopping anyone?

Hanging Your Arm Out The Window
Possibly the most insidious on the list, it's one of the greatest pleasures in a car nut's life; To hang your arm out the window on a cool summer night, cruising down the main drag, your significant other at your side, a mellow tune belting out on the radio and from under the hood. There's no greater bliss for any automotive aficionado. Much like with window vents, this past time faces an end from the evils of air conditioning, but it also will die out as a result of government regulation in the form of ever-more-stringent side impact requirements forcing windows and beltlines higher and higher. As it stands there are few cars on the market today you can hang an arm out of without significant discomfort, and we'll be very sad when there are none. In fact, in our recent Muscle Car Wars showdown, the only member of the threesome we could comfortable accomplish this in was the Mustang. Camaro? Challenger? Fail.

excerpt from the website

 

[coolmazda5]

manual trany? i think they'll always have them. hell im 16 and my first car is a protege 5 speed. and i cant imagine not owning i a manual

Damn, you are old, my kids are much younger than that

J/k. Just check the manufacturers who still make cars with manual trannies, very few. Slowly but surely is being replaced by cheaper to manufacture ATs, DSGs with paddle shifters, CVTs and the rest of the crap. The 3rd pedal is slowly dying I'm afraid...

 

[TheMAN]

at least my corolla beater has manual windows
they kick ass when you're the only one driving the car and you have working AC

practically impossible to break, works anytime, and it goes up/down FASTAR!!!!111!!!!

 

[JCell]

i remember vent windows..... they were badass!!! lol

 

[ghettoracingkid]

I want vent windows on my miata

 

[altspace]

I already kind of miss #1 and #9, but I guess they forgot a critical one, which closely fits with #5:

Nice choice of photo. My 79' Cordoba was bad ass with its' Corinthian Leather. (Fancy terminology Chrysler came up with as a marketing ploy. There's no such thing.)

 

[coolmazda5]

My 79' Cordoba was bad ass with its' Corinthian Leather. (Fancy terminology Chrysler came up with as a marketing ploy. There's no such thing.)

I believe you, Ricardo

Those things were friggin' ships on wheels

 

[altspace]

Mine was a 2 door tank, at least everyone called it that or the Pimp Ride. It was Emerald Green with the green 1/2 vinyl roof and the interior was Jade green. I had Limo Tint (no regulation then) and silver spoke wheels.

Like this but not brown.