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I just found out they customized FDR's 1938 Ford with a cigarette dispenser 😂

It's wild how much car priorities have changed. Old cars used to be all about smoking.😂😂 A 2019 Subaru has 19 cupholders and no ashtrays. But in a vintage Mercedes, you'd find three ashtrays just for the back seats and zero cupholders. And nothing beats what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in his 1938 Ford. He loved smoking, so the car had a steering wheel-mounted dispenser that would automatically light a cigarette as he pulled it out. You didn't even have to press a button. A lit cigarette would just pop into a little tray. It sounds crazy, but since he had polio and used hand controls for everything, it was actually a pretty smart way to make his life easier 😂 Cute, right #CarFacts #FDR #VintageCars #WeirdInventions #History #Automotive #OldSchoolCool #CarHistory #Cars

I just found out they customized FDR's 1938 Ford with a cigarette dispenser 😂
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Those days we used to shift gears from the steering wheel 🤔

There was a time when a lot of cars had a manual transmission shifter on the steering column, a setup people called a "three on the tree." The whole point was to get the gear shifter off the floor so you could fit three people comfortably in the front seat. It was a huge deal back then for passenger space. This design was on some cars for decades. Eventually, automatic transmissions became the standard, and the "three on the tree" disappeared. But here is the crazy part. It is making a comeback! A lot of new cars and EVs are putting the shifters back on the steering column for the same reason—to save space. The only difference is they are automatic now. 😂 It's all my fault for being too young, otherwise I would really want to try this kind of car. #Cars #Nostalgia #RetroTech #CarHistory #ManualTransmission #Driving #EVs

Those days we used to shift gears from the steering wheel 🤔
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