14 UNUSUAL Old Car Features, No One Wants Anymore!

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The seats in the back of the Subaru BRAT were a ploy to circumvent a punitive 25% import tariff on light trucks known as the Chicken tax. The plastic seats in the cargo bed allowed Subaru to classify the BRAT as a passenger car, rather than as a light truck. Also people weren`t big poosies like they are now days. It used to be pretty common to see a pickup truck going down the road with a gun rack full of guns in the rear window and a bunch of people piled into the bed.

Bumper on TTC buses have had water bumper for over 30 years in Tornto

We used to put the record players in a glove department box in the 60s and we love them but the Records 45s was cheap so you stack up on them and throw them out when you mess them up

The refrigerated seats still exist today. I had Dodge Durango Citad that had cooling seats.It was not connected to ac It was fan in the seat that pulled air from under the seat where a ac vent that was under the seat. 6:37

At about 13 minutes you got the dates wrong on the oldsmobile

Push-button automatic transmission on a few Dodges in the early 60s. I guess they worked electrically, not through a linkage. It seemed clever but the buttons would fail to work or they would come loose and fall off.

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The brat did have seat belts. You can see them put them on when they 8:23 get in bed of the truck

In Australia the Subaru Brat was called the Subaru Brumby and it did not come with those two seats in the bed the only reason why they were put in the Brat was to bet around those absolutely stupid chicken tax moving on to swiveling seats well some Toyota's lke the Alphard Vellfire Voxy Noah and Estima all people movers and the Porte which is a hatchback and they all JDM vehicles have a versoin called the well cab which are designed for disabled people and it includes the passenger seat on the left hand side either the front row or second row in the five people movers to swivel 90 degrees and drop down to allow easy access for the disabled passenger to get out these are astandard feature on all the vehicles you can also get them without them also on the Alphard and Vellfire the left hand side second row passenger seat is an electric wheel chair that a ramp comes out and the passenger in the seat just drives it out without any assistance very handy for the passenger for sale in Australia typical Toyota providing more brilliant features on there vehicles and not forgetting the 180 degree swiveling seats in camper vans on both driver an passenger seats