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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