Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 15, 2011

Yup, it’s on my ’79 Cad.

You may not be a plugger, but your car sure is

I miss vent windows.

Yeah, that’s the way it once was!

Floodboard? Try floorboard!

Right next to my missing clutch peddle.

We told our little sister that if she pushed that button the car would explode……………..

busted out laughing. read the joke to my mom, she just looked at me…….I’m too old for this body

Typo week continues.

The move of the switch was to meet European requirements. Back in the days before shiftless cars for people who match, it required only slight skill to shift gears and dim lights at the same time. Much more common was the need to dim while turning onto a side street into oncoming traffic, which may find the hand on the opposite side of the steering wheel from the switch. But then the auto industry has always been forced, kicking and screaming, into any safety measure from four-wheel brakes onward.

A real plugger knows the difference between the high beam button and the starter button

My first car had one of those – on the FLOORboard; a ‘68 Ford Fairlane. I’ll be 53 next week, and getting more Pluggerish by the second!

had a ’52 Ford p/u with one.

LOVE THE PLUGGERS

oh my god, im a pluger!

@pschearerI totally agree…..I remember when the ’66 models came out. That was the first year I noticed them missing…….

I remember mechanical brakes on my model A

My ’68 Plymouth Valiant had the windshield washer bulb (not automatic…you had to pump it) right next to the dimmer switch. Until I got used to it…I had fun at night trying to dim the lights and hitting the wrong “button”:

The mid-1960’s Dodge I drive in high school drivers ed had an automatic transmission, but instead of a gear shift stalk on the steering wheel or on the floor, there was a button on the dashboard! I had never seen anything like that before or since. Took some getting used to. Halfway through the semester, we got a brand new 1967 Plymouth which had the more sensible gear shift stalk on the steering wheel.

I can’t drive and fiddle with the lever on my steering wheel too!!

I read they were going to move the switch back to the floor. Too many blondes are getting their feet caught in the steering wheel.

It was a lot better when that was the way it was.

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