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Cars used to have foot-operated headlight switches.

Science & Industry

I f you bought a classic car today, you might be surprised to find a small metal button on the floor next to the gas and brake pedals. It's an oddity now, but for much of the 20th century, this feature was the standard in American automobiles — and for a very simple reason.

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By the Numbers

Average fuel economy (in miles per gallon) for cars in 1975

13.5

Pedals on a manual transmission vehicle (gas, brake, and clutch)

Did you know?

Some cars had record players in the dash.

A really firm stomp on the ground can make a vinyl record skip, so a moving vehicle seems like the last place to put a record player. Yet during the 1950s and '60s, several companies tried to make it work. Chrysler debuted the Columbia Highway Hi-Fi system in 1955 that played only specially made records, followed by the RCA Victor Auto Victrola, which played a stack of 14 EPs, in 1960. Philips launched the Auto Mignon, which played one EP at a time, in 1959. When cassettes and 8-tracks debuted in the mid-1960s, there was no longer a need to put record players in cars. The in-car 8-track player was first offered by Ford in 1965.