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

Edited January 29, 200619 yr by HarleyEarl

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

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...

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

"Underseat heater and unit defroster"

WTF?

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, 200619 yr by moltar

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

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

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

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.

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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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!

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!!!