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when i was much younger, i had bought my first car which was well over 20 years old. a gigantic boat of an early 1970's ford. pretty much the family truckster.
by fargle 2y ago
when i was much younger, i had bought my first car which was well over 20 years old. a gigantic boat of an early 1970's ford. pretty much the family truckster. it had the four round headlights. outer two are low/high beams and inner two are high beams only. so when you had high beams on it was all four high-beams.
now, myself and my young wife were on a vacation and it was late, like midnight and i was trying to find a hotel for the night in a small town. i got pulled over.
the reason? i "blinded" a police officer because i had the high-beams on. i hadn't realized it. he pointed to a dim little red light on the dash (i didn't know what that was). even with 4 high-beams on and my young eyes, it was still a struggle to see in the dark night.
the officer laughed at me trying to turn them off. nope - that's the windshield wipers. that's the thing to tilt the wheel and so on. he said: "did you happen to notice that big switch thing on the floorboard?" (i had not). "push it with your foot" and then "have a good night" as he chuckled and disappeared.
that was a long time ago, but who else remembers real high-beams and floor switches? or even knows that was a thing?
- wlonkly 2y agoI remember, as a little kid, being "in charge" of telling my father when to dip the headlights because I saw the glare of a car coming over the next hill or around the next curve. Of course he saw it too, and wouldn't blind an oncoming driver, but he'd make it seem like it was all up to me. That would've been around 1980, in some kind of late-70s Pontiac, I can't remember what model, maybe a Bonneville. But it definitely had a floor switch. IIRC, a big problem with them was that they would rust out in areas that salt the roads in winter, when the driver would track in salty slush on their boots.