dimmer switch
Side note: If you had a mid-1960s Continental then it could also be the seek button for the radio. With the right options, you could get two of those buttons on the floor. Until I got the hang of using them, I repeatedly flashed the lights when I was trying to change the radio station.Winner!
I never saw either of my grandfathers shave. I never saw either of them not fully dressed and "presentable". Same goes for my grandmothers. Back then I was "seen and not heard".
What's this? Will show your age.
pull out on the button, then push back inSo which one of you old b-sterds remembers how to set the Channel memory on the AM push button car radios?
Boom!pull out on the button, then push back in
Got one in my truck. '87 F 350...What's this? Will show your age.
First car had something similar. 1964 Dodge.Speaking of buttons...
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Mechanics are made, not born.My mother's uncle had an old Ford pickup ('49?) that we drove on his farm. The battery was dead once and his nephew and I went to jump it. Couldn't find the battery to save our lives. Uncle came out and showed us it was under the floorboards. Eventually the engine seized up and he was forced to buy a used Chevy truck. I don't know why, but for some reason he removed the air cleaner. We were out in a field one day and when he started the truck, it backfired and the carburetor was on fire. He put it out by throwing dirt on it. I didn't know jack about carburetors, but I got a rebuild kit and took that thing apart and got it working again. I must have been 16 at the time. I drove a '63 Buick Skylark with a 215 cu. in. V8 aluminum block engine, with the weird Power-Glide transmission where the reverse was all the way to the right on the shifter. Had to rev it up a couple of times to get reverse to kick in. Had a 4-barrel Quadrajet (aka Quadrajunk) carb. Front wheel fell off twice while I was driving it. That was a thrill. Starter motor burned itself out in the driveway of girl I was picking up for a date. But I got a job in a gas station because when the owner asked if I had any experience working on cars I pointed to the Skylark and told him that was the only way I could keep it on the road.