Knew a guy in high school in the late 90’s that had an 80’s Chrysler van and it would repeat “DOOR AJAR” every 3 seconds, because of some sort of short/malfunction (with all doors closed fully). He couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so he just lived with it- but it drove passengers crazy. He somehow just tuned it out over time. 😅
@@SebastianX1.9Allot of stuff was cool. The aspect of every year things improving allot etc, but I would argue allot of stuff is better and more convenient today. Even new retro synth music is better than the ting they emulate. Oh and then you have medical advances.
One you forgot, OBD1! Remember shorting the conmector pins and reading check engine light blink codes? It was like the cars computer was talking to you! Amazing at the time.
I enjoy power windows. Show a kid today a roll up window knob and they won't know what it is. I was dads power window motor, climbing through the car to roll up all windows. Term is still used today that baffle the kids, roll up/down the windows, means push the button.
I installed car stereos and worked on every 80s car in here plus others. We used to get calls from the local Ford dealership because the 10 pack CD changer in the cars would skip. Made by Sony, in the industry we called it "The 10 Pack Skip Changer". We fixed a lot of broken power antennas and installed cellular phones (and CBs too!) Some premium cars used to have octane switches in them for if you couldn't get premium fuel (Ford Thunderbird Turbocoupe and Ford Mustang SVO). Cylinder deactivation is used by Audi for at least the last 11 years. Dual intake cars have died due to variable runner intakes and cam phasing. The Taurus SHO and the ZR1 had dual intakes. Almost all American 80s cars are stylish deathraps with cardboard interior door panels horrible fit and finish and flimsy unitized bodies. How many cars used to drive around with one headlight stuck up... This is how the Japanese took over the car market.
To this day cylinder deactivation still causes problems. The problem with cylinder deactivation is when you start deactivating cylinders it causes the different cylinders to run at different temperatures and very time it causes metal to warp which causes problems such as oil burning. They even sell muzzlers so that you can deactivate the cylinder deactivation.
I had 3 Nissan 280 ZX's in the 80's and I loved them. Awesome cars with the best new car smell ever. My last one had jade gray paint and a green lighted digital tach as well as silver leather bucket seats. Awesome color combination and I could switch from MPH to KMH with my date being none the wiser. She would look over and the speedometer would read 120 but she didn't notice it was KMH instead of MPH so she would start screaming for me to slow down when we were actually only doing around 85. Priceless!!!
In the mid '80s, a Radio Shack car phone could be bought for around $1200. Just a couple years later, the price dropped all the way down to $400. That's when I bought one.
@@j_rainsgoat3929 early in dash CD players were terrible. They finally started putting out damped & buffer tech but from late 80s but people who had them early will know. Which was probably why they had the tape deck plus CD for over a decade
I almost forgot. Natural casings are made from animal casings were the lining of the intestines which were the tube that carried poo from the stomach to the sphincter.
The biggest reason the GM v864 failed is that running a v8 vs. a v4 wasn't the problem. The problem was that the cars weighed over 5000lbs. On the other end of the spectrum, a 70s vw beetle kit car with a v8 engine swap could get 30 mpg.
The V8-6-4 was just ahead of its time, a lot of Cars or Truck for that matter have Cylinder Deactivation though it's only at a steady cruising speed it does it.
The 1970 Imperial had wipers on the lights. Some early Chrysler vehicles from that period had this feature and I think Chevy Caprice offered it in 1969.
Other than the obsurd things he could do (like Turbo Boost, Ski Mode, and was invincible) KITT from Knight Rider actually predicted a lot of tech that we have in cars today.
Got out of the Marines in 84 , got a job as a Mercedes/ Nissan tech at a dealer. I installed " car phones", and working on these systems, was just part of the day.
The C7 Corvette cylinder deactivation was so poorly done that there are afm devices you can add to bypass it. It was an option that never worked well regardless of the make/model vehicle that had it.
When the bag phones came out, I wanted one so badly but you needed a credit score of 1500 haha. I was certain that a bag phone would get me all the girls!😂😂
I used to have a car with a manual retractable antenna attached to the outside of the A pillar. When it was raining and getting poor FM reception, I had to roll down the window by hand and try to pull the rusty antenna up while one hand holding the steering wheel. Those were the days.
I remember when I was a kid, we had those brick phones, but they were turned into cheap walky-talky's. I guess they had to make use of all those in car phones.
I had a pioneer premier stereo system put in my truck, it had a 6 disc CD changer under the back seat 4 speakers, some tweeters, and some other mid ring speakers as well. And it had a wireless remote control and the head could change colors from green to orange if you wanted the display a different color. After they installed it in my truck the stereo shop that did the work asked if they could keep my truck for a couple days so people could see it installed at the time that was the best stereo system that shop sold, and it stayed in the truck until the day I sold it and it never failed it worked perfect for 15 years until I traded the truck in 2004.
A couple years ago I was at the local scrapyard and came across an Oldsmobile Toronada Trofeo exactly like the one shown in this video. It must have sat in a barn for nearly half a century as it was in mint condition minus the barn and mouse "stuff" (smell/stains/houses). Obviously the owner died and everything including the car got tossed. It was a real bummer.
5:24 Canadian here, I wish more car makers included head light wipers as a winter package, many cars have heated seats, steering wheels, windshield wipers & mirrors but the wipers on the headlights would be handy in the months where we drive in the slush and snowy conditions.
I have a cassette and CD player and a Monsoon stereo in my 1999 Buick Regal. It has dual climate zones, an antenna in the window, traction control, anti lock brakes, a ton of torque and a power sliding sunroof. those were big then. I still have the car as a second car it gets about a thousand miles on it a year and has never left me stranded. The 80's were great but the 90's were the bomb.
I had a 1985 Chrysler Laser XT Turbo with every option available. Being a software developer and architect, I *liked* the electronic dashboard and trip computer (I also has a 1989 Olds Toronado Trofeo with that touch screen and even the cell phone but that’s a different, more nightmarish story). The voice alerts weren’t that great once the novelty wore off. The real obnoxiousness that I remember is that, even working perfectly, there was one flaw that would drive you to insanity. When the fuel tank got to something under 1/8th full, you got the “Low Fuel” warning. But…. Since fuel sloshes around while you’re driving, the sensor would detect fuel above and below the threshold and you could end up driving 10-20 miles with the damn thing CONSTANTLY warning you about low fuel, then resetting itself only to warn you again 100 years later! That was why I turned off the voice. At least the in-dash message wasn’t nearly so obnoxious.
I had 2 Buick Century's, a 1990 and a 1994, both had the power antenna option. I always thought it was kind of neat, but it would always get stuck on a cold winter morning.
I worked at a Lincoln-Mercury car dealer and we had a share of cars that came for service or body work, where the PW antennas had quit working. A lot of the people just had them put in the upright position. @@100percentSNAFU
In 1970, I had a '67 Camaro, RS, with covered headlights. It looked really cool, having an all black grill, with the white nose stripe and pearl blue paint. The car was used, and previous maintenance was iffy. The headlight covers would retract horizontally, into the grill, when the lights were turned on. A vacuum motor operated them. It worked great for a few months, but then the vacuum moters quit, with the covers in the closed position. I had to shove the covers in, to have headlights. It was a nice car, but was starting to fail, so I sold it. Could be worth something today.
I drive a 2008 highlander with a 6 disc changer in dash! I find it is one of the best features of the car. CDs are INSANELY loud compared you Apple Music on Bluetooth.
I remember quite a few of these. I was born in 1980, but my parents had cars with some of these features. My dad had a Buick Riverra which had the touch screen and I thought it was the coolest thing. My mom had a Datsun 300 ZX which had the popup headlights and it would talk. I remember giggling as a kid when it would say "your door is ajar" to which I would say "it's a door, not a jar". My parents also had car phones which I remember my dad would have technical issues with it and without warning, take the receiver in hand and slam it against the center console multiple times to make it work better. I feel bad for the sorry soul on the other end. The retractable antenna was something I saw quite regularly as well. I cannot remember if my first car had one, but I remember a few cars later, I had this antenna that was extended permanently and was really flexible. I do know that my first car had AM/FM/Cassette for the radio. I had a CD player that I could use a Cassette adapter to plug into the headphone jack of the CD player to play CDs... the only problem is the things skipping like crazy as they didn't have the few second memory buffer which it would play from.
84 Corvette here with a bunch of this tech along with a modern stereo that connects to my cell phone via BT for additional functionality. One step closer to Knight Rider status, lol. My grandson actually asked me why my car looks like Knight Rider inside. 🤣🤣🤣
Both of my parents had a cellphone in the mid 90’s. We called them bag phones. They gotten a cell phone in the late 90’s. My 1st car had a tape cassette player with radio in the late 90’s. I had it till late May 2005. My 2nd car had a 6-disc CD player and radio. My 3rd car had CD player, radio, Sync or BT, and satellite radio. It was the same with my 4th vehicle. My current has Apple Car Play, BT, radio, and satellite radio. I do missed using a CD player. Even having driver’s assist and assisting parking. I have been wearing a seat belt a long time. My sister had an automatic seat belt that goes over the shoulder and still had to buckled up the lap belt. A few years ago that I told my neighbor to fastened his seat belt and he gave a big excuse in not wearing it. I told him off to put it on!! I didn’t want him to go through the windshield. All the vehicles had an airbags on the driver’s side and passenger side,too. Luckily they never went off on me.
You can still get them if you want them. cd/dvd is standard in mid range head units. For most people, their entire cd collection fits just fine on their phone and is a lot easier to use that way. A $10 usb stick will also do the job just fine.
Greatest pop-up headlights goes to the Acura NSX. The pop-up headlights on the 1990-1993 Celica were odd-shaped! I still love the All-trac Celica. Very Underrated car.
@@andydhillon1977 The plastic leading edge of the ‘eyelids’ that blended so well with the upper grille slit is what makes them so great to me. Besides, I’ve never owned an NSX. Bias confirmed! ✅
CD antiskip technology was available for portable players. I've often wondered why car manufacturers never installed this skip reducing tech in a vehicle that may hit a bump or two ie, all vehicles. Surely it would have been an easy fix to bring this feature to 'modern' cars. The only drawback with antiskip in portable players was excessive battery consumption. This range anxiety wouldn't have existed in cars with power constantly being generated. I'm sure some automobile manufacturers had solutions for this problem but it was hard to air guitar to Iron Maiden while the CD was skipping. 🎶🎵🎸🎵🎶 !! Cheers.😊
These named techs were more fashon items than some Tops....and that's why most of them got lost...at least until tech development improved them into properly efficient assitant.... Top techs are those which set benchmark in further development that still lasts like... ...ABS, ASR, active AWD and RWD differential, central locking, automatic wipers and headlights, navigation, AC, independent heating, fuel injection, carbon filters, pre-colision automatics, exhaust catalisator, tire pressure monitoring....
Cassette players were offered right into the 2000’s in countries with mountains and bumpy rides like South Americas. Example Toyota landcruiser. To bumpy for cd.
I had a Fiat Tempra 2.0L 1992 model with the digital instrumentcluster back in the days, felt like being in a X-wing from starwars driving it in snowy weather (Norway) :D
WRT touch screens, if you had physical buttons you could learn your way around, such that you could operate stuff without needing to take your eyes off the road. You can't use a touchscreen without looking at the screen, which means taking your eyes off the road.
The "It Store" in London, Ontario, Canada carried the Cellular Phony. Those power antennas then were trouble, especially if they were trying to come down in the cold winter.
I've never seen an in dash cd player but i have seen in dash cassette player in the 80s. It wasn't till the late 90s early 00's i started to see in dash cd players in vehicle's.
Knew a guy in high school in the late 90’s that had an 80’s Chrysler van and it would repeat “DOOR AJAR” every 3 seconds, because of some sort of short/malfunction (with all doors closed fully). He couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so he just lived with it- but it drove passengers crazy. He somehow just tuned it out over time. 😅
I remember the Dodge Daytona had that feature, too.
That always cornfuzed me. Cuz if the door was a jar 🫙, what was a jar 🫙?! 😂
Only thing i took from this video was the 80s was definitely a time to be alive
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It was way better than it is today
It was fantastic compared to today! I was there.
@@SebastianX1.9Allot of stuff was cool. The aspect of every year things improving allot etc, but I would argue allot of stuff is better and more convenient today. Even new retro synth music is better than the ting they emulate. Oh and then you have medical advances.
@@MadScientist267 alright calm down gramps
What I miss most?
Turn signals.
We used to use them all the time, now they're just for show apparently. 🤪
Now we can’t fugure out which lever to activate them
The government kills pop-up headlights, but they allow laptop-sized distraction screens right in the middle of the dashboard.
Or for trucks and SUVs to get so bloated that a pedestrian is more likely to get injured due to the poor visibility
Good point. Though I think it all comes down to paying attention while driving. That would prevent many accidents.
And allows headlights now that blind other drivers
Who’s paying their bills? It’s funny that you act as if this is a surprise.
@@Spidernick88people used to say the same thing about when halogen headlights first came out
Touch screens are an automotive trend we should have left in the 80s.
barely works on a stopped vehicle.
using that in a bad road is a nightmare.
Nah it's better than ever now
How am I gonna select which album to listen to on Spotify without a touchscreen?
@@deeno9804lol gen z behavior
I was gonna say... most of these should have stayed there. But engineers like revisiting failures 🙄
One you forgot, OBD1! Remember shorting the conmector pins and reading check engine light blink codes? It was like the cars computer was talking to you! Amazing at the time.
"OBD1" is a retronym to describe any number of proprietary diagnostic systems. OBD-II is an actual standard.
OBD 1 sucked so bad. Troubleshooting those cars took the parts cannon most of the time.
Did that change in 1995?
@@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSAyes with obd2
@@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA1996 was the start of OBD2A.
I still think touch screens in cars are a huge mistake.
They’re definitely good when done right. Good luck seeing it done right though
Why? Explain
Get over it , physical buttons are a thing of the past
A fosocal manipulator can be used without looking at them. On a touchscreen you are forced to look at the screen instead of the rad.
Yup. It's garbage.
I love the horizontally-moving headlight washers on the Saab. I never knew so many cars had so many different kinds of headlight wipers.
I always thiught the pop up headlights on the 80s early 90s Pontiacs made them look sportier than other cars.
Compared to what? A tractor? POS cars.
I have a 1989 firebird i love the pop up headlights and the power antenna and everything still works.
Those 80s touch screens are infinitely cooler than modern touch screens.
Easier to use as well.
Nope.
I enjoy power windows. Show a kid today a roll up window knob and they won't know what it is. I was dads power window motor, climbing through the car to roll up all windows. Term is still used today that baffle the kids, roll up/down the windows, means push the button.
I installed car stereos and worked on every 80s car in here plus others. We used to get calls from the local Ford dealership because the 10 pack CD changer in the cars would skip. Made by Sony, in the industry we called it "The 10 Pack Skip Changer".
We fixed a lot of broken power antennas and installed cellular phones (and CBs too!)
Some premium cars used to have octane switches in them for if you couldn't get premium fuel (Ford Thunderbird Turbocoupe and Ford Mustang SVO).
Cylinder deactivation is used by Audi for at least the last 11 years. Dual intake cars have died due to variable runner intakes and cam phasing. The Taurus SHO and the ZR1 had dual intakes.
Almost all American 80s cars are stylish deathraps with cardboard interior door panels horrible fit and finish and flimsy unitized bodies. How many cars used to drive around with one headlight stuck up... This is how the Japanese took over the car market.
Never knew some cars in the 80s had factory fitted CD players! Thought that was 90s tech, fascinating! ❤
My 2006 F250 Lariat , came with factory cd player. Still have like 6 cds in it, in the dash! And, it works.
To this day cylinder deactivation still causes problems. The problem with cylinder deactivation is when you start deactivating cylinders it causes the different cylinders to run at different temperatures and very time it causes metal to warp which causes problems such as oil burning. They even sell muzzlers so that you can deactivate the cylinder deactivation.
Yup! It was just technology needed to satisfy government EPA standards.
I had 3 Nissan 280 ZX's in the 80's and I loved them. Awesome cars with the best new car smell ever. My last one had jade gray paint and a green lighted digital tach as well as silver leather bucket seats. Awesome color combination and I could switch from MPH to KMH with my date being none the wiser. She would look over and the speedometer would read 120 but she didn't notice it was KMH instead of MPH so she would start screaming for me to slow down when we were actually only doing around 85. Priceless!!!
Although I was way too young at the time to drive a car, I remember the 1980s and the cars of the decade.
You're interesting. Are you American?
The JC Whitney catalog was a must if you had a car and was poor in the eighties.
Hahaha....
I miss looking through those catalogs. 😔
Rock Auto of its time
A $4,000 phone isn't just a large sum for the 1980's.
In the mid '80s, a Radio Shack car phone could be bought for around $1200. Just a couple years later, the price dropped all the way down to $400. That's when I bought one.
$4000 was a pretty good downstroke on a house in the 80's !!
That's about $12,000 today.
@@robertholle5599 I still consider paying anything over $100 for a phone to be ridiculous.
In a few years that will be the price for the new iphone
I own a 97 Volvo V70 T5 - it has the headlight wipers - awesome!!
Awesome beast 💪 T5 🇬🇧 coppers had a plain blue one in Doncaster 😮
@@ianmangham4570is that the same place where Clarkson grew up ?
@@charlie1832 He was from Tickhill about 10 miles from Doncaster Town Centre
The early CD players were insufferable with the constant skipping.
You must be speaking of portable cd players.
@@j_rainsgoat3929 early in dash CD players were terrible. They finally started putting out damped & buffer tech but from late 80s but people who had them early will know. Which was probably why they had the tape deck plus CD for over a decade
Even later versions suffer when the road is bumpy.
Yup thats why i held off forever on finally jumping over. ...even w the portables.
I almost forgot. Natural casings are made from animal casings were the lining of the intestines which were the tube that carried poo from the stomach to the sphincter.
I had a Volvo340 Turbo with pop-up headlights. That made it special!
The biggest reason the GM v864 failed is that running a v8 vs. a v4 wasn't the problem. The problem was that the cars weighed over 5000lbs. On the other end of the spectrum, a 70s vw beetle kit car with a v8 engine swap could get 30 mpg.
I had a 1987 Mitsubishi Cordia LS. It had a cassette tape, power antenna, rear window louvres, digital dash and epitomized the gadgetry of the 80s.
In the 80's the AM radio was available, but the AM/FM was standard. The AM only option had to be requested
The V8-6-4 was just ahead of its time, a lot of Cars or Truck for that matter have Cylinder Deactivation though it's only at a steady cruising speed it does it.
I still love the '84 Corvette's digital gauges and pop-up headlights.
It's a shame it was so insufferably slow. I had a 1982 TA. Good ole' 165hp crossfire engine.
The 1970 Imperial had wipers on the lights. Some early Chrysler vehicles from that period had this feature and I think Chevy Caprice offered it in 1969.
Other than the obsurd things he could do (like Turbo Boost, Ski Mode, and was invincible) KITT from Knight Rider actually predicted a lot of tech that we have in cars today.
I loved the Pontiac digital gagues, especially when the dashboard lit up at night.
I also have an 89 Accord and the pop up headlights still work perfect!
That last feature with the Prelude reminded me of the Prelude with 4 Wheel Steering. How about a vid on that brief feature?
Got out of the Marines in 84 , got a job as a Mercedes/ Nissan tech at a dealer. I installed " car phones", and working on these systems, was just part of the day.
The C7 Corvette cylinder deactivation was so poorly done that there are afm devices you can add to bypass it. It was an option that never worked well regardless of the make/model vehicle that had it.
When the bag phones came out, I wanted one so badly but you needed a credit score of 1500 haha. I was certain that a bag phone would get me all the girls!😂😂
Touch screens are probably THE single worst feature in cars then and now!
Pop up headlight were cool - I had them on a Miata. Blast to drive 5 speed stick.
1:00 insert Dankpods raging: "CRRRAAAIIIGG!!"
I think we found Tony's new head-unit...
I'm Gen-X and this was some fun & fond memories from the most Fun filled Decade ever !!! Thanks for the Trip down memory lane .
I used to have a car with a manual retractable antenna attached to the outside of the A pillar. When it was raining and getting poor FM reception, I had to roll down the window by hand and try to pull the rusty antenna up while one hand holding the steering wheel. Those were the days.
I remember when I was a kid, we had those brick phones, but they were turned into cheap walky-talky's. I guess they had to make use of all those in car phones.
In the 70's and 80's in the Soviet Union the best car you could own was any car.
I'm proud to say that I got to experience all of those in the cars I've owned. I do miss pop-up headlights. Great video!
You really have to experience the automatic seatbelts to know how awful they were. Early digital speedometers that only updated once every second too.
I had a pioneer premier stereo system put in my truck, it had a 6 disc CD changer under the back seat 4 speakers, some tweeters, and some other mid ring speakers as well. And it had a wireless remote control and the head could change colors from green to orange if you wanted the display a different color. After they installed it in my truck the stereo shop that did the work asked if they could keep my truck for a couple days so people could see it installed at the time that was the best stereo system that shop sold, and it stayed in the truck until the day I sold it and it never failed it worked perfect for 15 years until I traded the truck in 2004.
I recall when cars didn’t have a radio as standard equipment.
I've bought three brand-new that didn't.
A couple years ago I was at the local scrapyard and came across an Oldsmobile Toronada Trofeo exactly like the one shown in this video. It must have sat in a barn for nearly half a century as it was in mint condition minus the barn and mouse "stuff" (smell/stains/houses). Obviously the owner died and everything including the car got tossed. It was a real bummer.
5:24 Canadian here, I wish more car makers included head light wipers as a winter package, many cars have heated seats, steering wheels, windshield wipers & mirrors but the wipers on the headlights would be handy in the months where we drive in the slush and snowy conditions.
I use to have a Nissan Silvia S12 Turbo with pop up lights about 25 years ago still is one of my favorite cars I ever owned!
Peugeot pronunciation is priceless. 😂😅
I have a cassette and CD player and a Monsoon stereo in my 1999 Buick Regal. It has dual climate zones, an antenna in the window, traction control, anti lock brakes, a ton of torque and a power sliding sunroof. those were big then. I still have the car as a second car it gets about a thousand miles on it a year and has never left me stranded. The 80's were great but the 90's were the bomb.
I had a 1985 Chrysler Laser XT Turbo with every option available. Being a software developer and architect, I *liked* the electronic dashboard and trip computer (I also has a 1989 Olds Toronado Trofeo with that touch screen and even the cell phone but that’s a different, more nightmarish story). The voice alerts weren’t that great once the novelty wore off. The real obnoxiousness that I remember is that, even working perfectly, there was one flaw that would drive you to insanity. When the fuel tank got to something under 1/8th full, you got the “Low Fuel” warning. But…. Since fuel sloshes around while you’re driving, the sensor would detect fuel above and below the threshold and you could end up driving 10-20 miles with the damn thing CONSTANTLY warning you about low fuel, then resetting itself only to warn you again 100 years later! That was why I turned off the voice. At least the in-dash message wasn’t nearly so obnoxious.
Car cigarette lighter is also a lost 80s tech.
Nope... In the 50's we already have those.
Hash burners
I had 2 Buick Century's, a 1990 and a 1994, both had the power antenna option. I always thought it was kind of neat, but it would always get stuck on a cold winter morning.
And broken off when you were going through a car wash if you didn’t retract the antenna.
As a matter of fact, I used to work at a Lincoln-Mercury dealership in the early 2000s and saw this a lot. @@glennso47
i have problems getting it up in the cold to brother.....wait that didnt sound right... 🧐
I had a 2000 Regal that had one and eventually it just outright failed and wouldn't go up.
I worked at a Lincoln-Mercury car dealer and we had a share of cars that came for service or body work, where the PW antennas had quit working. A lot of the people just had them put in the upright position. @@100percentSNAFU
I miss the spectrum analyzers with dancing LEDS , when driving in the dark. Especially when playing Blue Monday by New Order.
I see a ship the harbour….
I owned a Prelude 89, the best car I ever had, and yes I equipped it with a Sony 10 disc CD Changer (in the boot). I loved that car...
Hey, it's Hoovie and his Chrysler in the intro!
I love the headlight wipers. My favorite tech. I never owned a car with them but I wish I had.
Yes I remember all these features . I had a 8 track and a cassette player insert .
In 1970, I had a '67 Camaro, RS, with covered headlights. It looked really cool, having an all black grill, with the white nose stripe and pearl blue paint. The car was used, and previous maintenance was iffy. The headlight covers would retract horizontally, into the grill, when the lights were turned on. A vacuum motor operated them. It worked great for a few months, but then the vacuum moters quit, with the covers in the closed position. I had to shove the covers in, to have headlights. It was a nice car, but was starting to fail, so I sold it. Could be worth something today.
@1:24, That BMW 635i still looks good today
I've been looking into getting one as a project car! Such a beautiful design!
I had a 2004 Corolla S when new and it came with CD player and a tape deck....I still listen to cassettes 😂😂😂😂
I drive a 2008 highlander with a 6 disc changer in dash! I find it is one of the best features of the car. CDs are INSANELY loud compared you Apple Music on Bluetooth.
Those automatic seatbelts were terrible .
I agree
We had a digital dash on our 86 Buick Somerset. We had it go out 4 times in 2 months while on the highway. It was a lemon law buyback.
"Door is Ajar"
Love it
Key is in the ignition.
No, it’s a door
I remember quite a few of these. I was born in 1980, but my parents had cars with some of these features. My dad had a Buick Riverra which had the touch screen and I thought it was the coolest thing. My mom had a Datsun 300 ZX which had the popup headlights and it would talk. I remember giggling as a kid when it would say "your door is ajar" to which I would say "it's a door, not a jar". My parents also had car phones which I remember my dad would have technical issues with it and without warning, take the receiver in hand and slam it against the center console multiple times to make it work better. I feel bad for the sorry soul on the other end. The retractable antenna was something I saw quite regularly as well. I cannot remember if my first car had one, but I remember a few cars later, I had this antenna that was extended permanently and was really flexible. I do know that my first car had AM/FM/Cassette for the radio. I had a CD player that I could use a Cassette adapter to plug into the headphone jack of the CD player to play CDs... the only problem is the things skipping like crazy as they didn't have the few second memory buffer which it would play from.
Glad to see that Julian Smith clip in the car phone section
pop up, up n down headlights!!🎉
I remember in 1981 we had a car phone. Yes we are still rich
84 Corvette here with a bunch of this tech along with a modern stereo that connects to my cell phone via BT for additional functionality. One step closer to Knight Rider status, lol. My grandson actually asked me why my car looks like Knight Rider inside. 🤣🤣🤣
77-79 Dodge Magnums in the US had clear lenses that covered the rectangle headlight bulbs underneath although you could toggle them to hide them
Both of my parents had a cellphone in the mid 90’s. We called them bag phones. They gotten a cell phone in the late 90’s. My 1st car had a tape cassette player with radio in the late 90’s. I had it till late May 2005. My 2nd car had a 6-disc CD player and radio. My 3rd car had CD player, radio, Sync or BT, and satellite radio. It was the same with my 4th vehicle. My current has Apple Car Play, BT, radio, and satellite radio. I do missed using a CD player. Even having driver’s assist and assisting parking. I have been wearing a seat belt a long time. My sister had an automatic seat belt that goes over the shoulder and still had to buckled up the lap belt. A few years ago that I told my neighbor to fastened his seat belt and he gave a big excuse in not wearing it. I told him off to put it on!! I didn’t want him to go through the windshield. All the vehicles had an airbags on the driver’s side and passenger side,too. Luckily they never went off on me.
The '71 Plymouth Fury had optional headlight washers.
What a good memories....... Thank you
I had to put a pioneer cd player in my 2007 Silverado classic. Only came with an analog am/fm tuner
Entertaining as usual👍
My first car was a red 1993 Sunbird with concealed headlights. It was almost identical to the one you showed in this video lol
I had a 1985 Ford Thunderbird with Mustang V8 5.0 with digital dash!
It really sucks that the cd players are gone. Who decided cd's are obsolete?
I agree with you I hate that they took away 😔 c.d players in cars have lots of c.ds
You can still get them if you want them. cd/dvd is standard in mid range head units. For most people, their entire cd collection fits just fine on their phone and is a lot easier to use that way. A $10 usb stick will also do the job just fine.
They were awesome, you could rip your own compilation off your desktop and the discs are way easier to handle than tapes - I still use CD’s bigtime
Can we get a video on the GMT-800 truck platform? It’s the bestselling truck line in American history
They aren’t bad I have one, not as well built as the 2 preceding platforms though
My dad's 2002 Protege had a combo CD/tape. I saw the option for one in my 2005 Sonata's manual.
2:00 Maxell! Break the sound barrier 😮
I had a 1992 Toyota Celica wit the greatest headlights ever.
Greatest pop-up headlights goes to the Acura NSX.
The pop-up headlights on the 1990-1993 Celica were odd-shaped!
I still love the All-trac Celica. Very Underrated car.
@@andydhillon1977 The plastic leading edge of the ‘eyelids’ that blended so well with the upper grille slit is what makes them so great to me. Besides, I’ve never owned an NSX. Bias confirmed! ✅
The C4 had the best pop ups.
Hands down.
@my1vice I have a C4 Corvette. The way they flip around is pretty cool.
The Porsche 928 has a neat pop-up headlight deasign, too.
CD antiskip technology was available for portable players. I've often wondered why car manufacturers never installed this skip reducing tech in a vehicle that may hit a bump or two ie, all vehicles. Surely it would have been an easy fix to bring this feature to 'modern' cars. The only drawback with antiskip in portable players was excessive battery consumption. This range anxiety wouldn't have existed in cars with power constantly being generated. I'm sure some automobile manufacturers had solutions for this problem but it was hard to air guitar to Iron Maiden while the CD was skipping. 🎶🎵🎸🎵🎶 !! Cheers.😊
These named techs were more fashon items than some Tops....and that's why most of them got lost...at least until tech development improved them into properly efficient assitant....
Top techs are those which set benchmark in further development that still lasts like...
...ABS, ASR, active AWD and RWD differential, central locking, automatic wipers and headlights, navigation, AC, independent heating, fuel injection, carbon filters, pre-colision automatics, exhaust catalisator, tire pressure monitoring....
Cassette players were offered right into the 2000’s in countries with mountains and bumpy rides like South Americas. Example Toyota landcruiser. To bumpy for cd.
2:00, best commercial ever.
I had a 1987 Toyota Cressida with Digital Dashboard. I loved that car and today i drive a 2011 Toyota Camry with regular dashboard 😅
Ford crown vic's had 💿/cassette player head unit until production ended in 2012.
2011.
I had a Fiat Tempra 2.0L 1992 model with the digital instrumentcluster back in the days, felt like being in a X-wing from starwars driving it in snowy weather (Norway) :D
Donut media's music video on pop headlights is great.
WRT touch screens, if you had physical buttons you could learn your way around, such that you could operate stuff without needing to take your eyes off the road. You can't use a touchscreen without looking at the screen, which means taking your eyes off the road.
Eddie Murphy has a great routine about talking cars !! “ yo man, somebody stole your battery!!”
7:00 yep, my parents old 2006 Odyssey had that. But then again 2000's era tech, the age of the Nintendo DS and MCR
The "It Store" in London, Ontario, Canada carried the Cellular Phony.
Those power antennas then were trouble, especially if they were trying to come down in the cold winter.
Use to drive in the garage with it up constantly 😅
Pontiac Trans AM GTA checked off so many things off the list. Phone? ✔️ pop-up headlights? ✔️ power antenna? ✔️
In around 1982/83 british car manufacturer British Leyland producted the Maestro car which had digital dash and speech synthesis!!
Way cool video I had forgotten about a lot of this 👍👍👍👍👍
I've never seen an in dash cd player but i have seen in dash cassette player in the 80s. It wasn't till the late 90s early 00's i started to see in dash cd players in vehicle's.