Name something in your first ever car that isn't in your current car?

[OneUmberJoker]

A tape slot

Ah, the old Chevette …

… forever known as the Vauxhall Shove It because of the number of times you’d have to bump start it.

I had a Morris Minor, it had a handle to start if needed.

A choke and a clutch

Manual gear box
Choke
No power steering
Cassette player

I can't remember when the choke disappeared from cars

A choke.
Fungus
An operational clutch.

God I loved that little shitbox.

Rust was always a thing, I can remember wondering how much the welding would be for the MOT each year

A choke and moss growing round the windows

Choke. I had a Chevette too! Powder blue, cost £80. Someone rear ended it at traffic lights and wrote it off, I cried my 18 yr old heart out. Had a series of Escorts after that which kept getting nicked and recovered, second thing is therefore a Crook Lock. I don’t think that’s spelt correctly 🤷‍♀️

Poisonous fumes.

A puddle in the passenger footwell.

My first car in 1988 was a black mini with a white bonnet and the number plate started with a Q. It too had to have a piece of board in front of the engine vents because any driving rain would make it randomly stop, usually, and memorably, when I was at the front of a traffic light queue.

I loved that car!

Mini?

Wing mirrors

@Snooks1971 you never forget your first!!! 🤣 First time I drove the van i kept stalling it . I was so embarrassed 😳

Bucket seats ( mini ).

From Google AI re chokes:

Cars stopped having manual chokes in the late 1980s to early 1990s as fuel injection systems, which manage the fuel-air mixture electronically, replaced carburetors, making manual choking obsolete for starting cold engines. While automatic chokes were common before this, the switch to fuel injection phased out the entire choke system, with most new cars having none by the mid-90s, although some older models lingered.

Yes it’s the embarrassment at that age. After my mini died (the floor fell out, how the hell im still here I have no idea) I bought an ancient chunky Vauxhall Astra for £600. Totally forgot about the choke on the way home, left it out and engine flooded. Stalled on a bridge in Lincolnshire. Its one of those things I need to let go but it sticks in my mind at 54

@Snooks1971 my van has a hole in the passenger floor which I covered up with a floor mat.....🤪 I blew up the battery once, a metal umbrella touched the battery terminal....🙃

A car stereo that you had to take the front off to stop people stealing it.

A choke, window winders, and a nifty wooden wedge thst my dad made to poke into the switch to keep the headlights on 🤣

Oh and an enormous stereo that pulled out and weighed a ton when I carried it round with me.

Fossil fuel.

Mine with pedal for dip/full was a Morris Traveller, but you've got me scratching my head about the Mini, 'cos had one of those at one point but can't remember the details (other than holes in the floor).

An ash tray !