Intersting Motor Trend article (last vehicle with 3 on the tree, cassette deck, vent windows etc)

https://www.motortrend.com/features-collections/last-cars-cassette-decks-carbs-bench-seats/?slide=1

 

Remember when 8 tracks were the new tech and now casette decks have been gone almost 20 years. Wow. Still miss vent windows and never a smoker.

 

Somebody sent me a picture of a cassette with a #2 lead pencil and said if you know the correlation of these two items- YOUR OLD. Sadly I had remembered using a pencil to wind cassette tapes. I guess I’m old.

 

If you are on these forums there is a chance you are old.

 

Or you're Leadslead....

 

Hey!

 

Your only as old as you want to be, not as your told to be!.....Longroofs Rule!

 

I saw the post with the tornado with rectangular headlights, and it got me wondering. So, I put it here with the article last of things in cars.

The first mass‑produced American car with rectangular headlights was the 1975 Buick Skyhawk, introduced in September 1974 and produced for the 1975 model year Fun Trivia.

This change came after the U.S. government amended Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 in 1974 to allow rectangular headlamps, which had been banned since the 1939 sealed‑beam rule www.classiccarstodayonline.com. Before this, all U.S. cars were required to use small, round sealed‑beam headlamps, limiting design flexibility. The new regulation opened the door for automakers to adopt the more modern rectangular shape, which offered a wider beam pattern and greater styling options

 

Sometime in the early to mid 90s I installed 4 halogen lights on both my 1986 Pontiac 6000 and our 1987 Pontiac Safari wagon for probably under $75. Still think those cars had the best lighting. On high beams the pattern must have been 50 feet wide at 50 yards out.