De Luxe Accessories

[HarleyEarl]

De Luxe Oldsmobile accessories in 1940. Interesting what they had as options then. Like heaters and backup lights.

Edited January 29, 2006 by HarleyEarl

[ToniCipriani]

Wow. Optional steering wheel. Wish they had that for the pre-refreshed Malibu.

[balthazar]

Welcome to my world: 1940 Ford HD truck, no heat, no turn signals, no radio, just vacuum wipers, a horn and 1 tail/brakelight. Only 2 fuses in the fuse block!

Heat wasn't standard in mid-priced domestics until the late '60s in general. In '40 nothing was standard. We take a tremendous amount for granted these days...

[razoredge]

Notice it was called a "cigar lighter", I had a car without a "cigar lighter" my 64 Alpine, and I smoked back then too . Yes it did have heat & defog It did have an ash try and console with lot of room, no door on the "glove box" but a handle for scart passengers to grab No music.....but something about the song that engine sang, I never felt I was missing much

steering wheel options ? didnt I have a post about this recently

then there was some cars that had the tissue dispencer option ?

the after market under dash air conditioning units ?

hydrolic windows and convertable tops ?

the windshild washer was a rubber boot type of bellows, pressed with the foot (at least on some models) that forced fluid out onto the windshield

I dont care what anyone says those huge firm flat bench seats were comfortable as could be

[ocnblu]

"Underseat heater and unit defroster"

WTF?

[Robert Hall]

Wow. Optional steering wheel. Wish they had that for the pre-refreshed Malibu.

Wow..a time when steering wheels weren't standard? Did they have a tiller standard instead...

All joking aside, I remember a time (not that long ago) when some cars still had AM radios and manual windows standard.

Edited January 29, 2006 by moltar

[XP715]

Wow! Heaters that are actually just called heaters! Packard called theirs a Thermo-Kinetic Diffuser in 1940

[HarleyEarl]

....something refreshing about clear, straightforward terms like 'heaters'.

The Packard terminology sounds like something they'd use today.

[balthazar]

Not at all! Everything was named in the '50s & '60s.

1964 Pontiac:

Wonder Touch power steering/ brakes

Tri-Comfort Circ-L-Aire air conditioning

Electro-Cruise cruise control

Cordova (vinyl) Top

Super DeLuxe AM-FM

Non-Glare inside rearview mirror

Safe-T-Track differential

Vebra-Phonic rear seat speaker

Custom Sports wheel discs

No-Mar fuel door guard

Roto-HydraMatic 375 transmission

Tri-Power carburetion

and there's more.

Go back 5 years and your Buick also would have a Vista-Vision windshield, a Dyna-Star grille, a TripleTurbine transmission and Delta-Wing fins! Now your car's trans is more like a 4T65E or something equally stirring. yay.

For years Nash called their heaters 'Weather-Eye'- always liked that one.

[knightfan26917]

He he he...how cool ... thanks for sharing that HE!

Heh...I know when I look through the brochures I have of the older Monte Carlos, I'm amazed at some of the "options" on those MCs "back then" .

Ain't history grand?

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[XP715]

Go back 5 years and your Buick also would have a Vista-Vision windshield, a Dyna-Star grille, a TripleTurbine transmission and Delta-Wing fins! Now your car's trans is more like a 4T65E or something equally stirring. yay.

Buick really did have the neatest names for everything; why call it a straight eight when you can call it a Valve-In-Head Fireball Dynaflash Eight? Fantastic!

[Robert Hall]

Buick really did have the neatest names for everything; why call it a straight eight when you can call it a Valve-In-Head Fireball Dynaflash Eight? Fantastic!

And with Olds, styling for 1950 was Futuramic!!!