If you’re in the back seat of a Tesla, you’d better look at those things real carefully.
In the event of power loss (in the event of a crash and subsequent fire perhaps), the only way out will be to disassemble that and pull the release cable.
I suppose you’ll need an exotic screwdriver to disassemble it?
If you were fast, there was a neat trick where you could use them as a bottle opener too.
And some actually did just straight up have bottle openers.
Idk about this one, although it does look like it is, but some were removable, so you could clean them and more easily use that nub to open bottles.
I’ve been in lots of cars with blurry photos
those were gross as fuck
Yes they were. My grandfather had an old Lincoln town car and he smoked like a train and the driver ash tray was always full. And he would drive with the driver window open even if it was snowing or raining and the water would get into the ash tray and omg! The door below the tray looked like an oil spill.
Yes pretty much. As a bad visual if me or my sister were misbehaving as kids we would be made to clean the door ash tray and grandpas ash tray next to the bed. 🤮
I remember when lighters for all all seats was listed as a selling feature.
Old luxury cars are the bomb. My girlfriend has an 84 Cadillac Eldorado project that has a cig lighter and ash tray for every seat - which is awesome on road trips when everyone wants a device charger. Plus they’re super super comfortable. Even on old suspension it feels like riding on a floating couch.
Now if only the engine swap we did could keep any of its engine oil inside the oil pan, it’d be great…
Oh yea, coin storage for the toll roads xD
I remember even smoking in cars and using their ashtrays. Filling them up with butts and scooting them around or compacting the ash to make room for “just one more” because I “didn’t have the time” to dump it out into a parking lot yet. I spent a long time not thinking that cigarette trash was garbage. It just seemed like it was a necessary part of daily life and that whatever was done in support of keeping it coming and not thinking much about it was entirely excusable and normal. I remember my parents smoking on airplanes.
Oldsmobile 98. 3 tons of mailbox plowing steel bumpers, orange barrel throwing, luxuriously spaced seating, so much chrome it upsets local birds, and steel steel steel. Bumps in the road? Lol. Was that a twig or a curb we just rolled over? Cant tell. Can fit an extra three persons in the trunk comfortably with the subs and amps, if necessary, or a honda 185 three wheeler, and is unstoppable with a set of chains on the back in the snow. Longer than the Short Bus, a back seat that made most king size mattresses blush, with the gas mileage to match. Oh how I miss you Hooptie. RIP.
Had an 99 Crown Victoria. When I had to check all four tires, I’d pack a day-bag and carry extra water.
I had a 70 Olds 98 with the Rocket 455. You could literally hear the gas pouring into the dinner-plate sized carburetor when you floored it. Had it for two or three days and the janky wiring caught fire and it burned up. Probably for the best really.
I had maroon 70’ I drove in high school. It easily sat six. I have many fond memories.
Yup, had two of them. A 74 with the 455 and an 83 with the 307. Oddly, they both got about the same mileage, but the 455 was way more fun.
My buddy had a 93-94, we crammed like 12 people in it one night, including the trunk lol
My grandfather’s car ashtrays in the back were absolutely packed with my garbage as a kid. Sorry Papa.
OK I remembered them, but the memories didn’t flood back until I read this. I was definitely stuffing them with my trash
slaps car this baby can hold so many candy wrappers!
My parents had an '88 Marquis that had cigarette lighters in the back doors. On a road trip as a kid, I learned how quickly those lighters heat up: pretty fast. Don’t test it yourself.
Ha my mom had a Cadillac, pretty sure even the same year, and my little brother also found out the hard way about those lighters.
I can still feel the pulsing pain of the burn on my finger.
Ah. The memories of being a wee kid and heating them up. And touching the red hot element. I think that’s one of those experiences that everyone that has been near them as a kid has had.
I did it once back in '96 I think I’m a friend’s car that was a vomit of a post soviet auto industry. And then did it again few months ago while explaining what’s that thing in our VW golf to my kid.
they are still in some newish aircraft which always makes me giggle when I see them
Especially on the toilets, they are there for safety reasons
If you’re stupid enough to light up on the plane, you have a secure way to discard it.
Else the idiot will try to “hide” it somewhere and potentially start a fire
Nope I remember these. I think it was my grandfather’s car?
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The comment got deleted between when I read it and upvoted it but now I’m curious if any modern cars, maybe in other countries besides the US have ashtrays included standard? They were saying they’d seen an Audi model that had one as late as 2017? Which might be true, I don’t get in Audis often but they always have a lot of doohickeys
