Round Button On Floor Of Old Cars

03 20 06 04 11 pm post 899142 in response to basicdumby i prefer the button on the floor.

Round button on floor of old cars.

Man i am feelin old. My model a has boards floorboard. Bet i am the only one here who has a car that has a starter push button thru the floor board. The parts supply and quantities used in liste.

And i mean a floor board. For most of the post war era the headlamp dimmer in american cars was located on the floor so you could operate the high beams without taking your hand off the wheel. Thats waaaaaay to many functions for one lever. 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.

1964 1965 1966 ford mustang auto trans shift plate assy. That little wand does the turn signals high beam low beam windshield washer many different wiping speeds and cruise on off set and resume. My first car was a 75 vega. 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.

On todays video we go through the steps to restore the floor boards on your classic car 4x4 or daily driver. 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. 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. 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.

Button on the floor by my left foot.