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

[OneUmberJoker]

A tape slot

A sunroof! It was so leaky that I’ve never had one since 😂

silt in the boot and cut and shut welding in the rear foot wells.

This also reminds me, did you mini van have one of those enormous but spindly steering wheels? Like what buses used to have
My friend’s mini did, but mine had a sporty steering wheel, and also bad boy wide tyres.

Sigh…

Oh @SabrinaThwaite those were the days! Things seemed to go wrong so often with cars back then that people were always willing to help.

It’s great that cars are generally more reliable these days…maybe people not so much. There was a poster I recall recently whose older teenage daughter had broken down and people were driving past bipping their horns and swearing at her.

@Snooks1971 it was like a bus size steering wheel 🛞 😁 it used to get really sticky though 😦 no idea why!!! I miss that old vane, it was my first taste of freedom!! I lived rurally and the last bus into town was 7.30 pm. No buses back lol

Heated seats

A choke. A starter motor that regularly needed hitting with hammer and chisel to get the car going. A perpetually full ashtray (I am ashamed, but it was over 35 years ago). Manual gearbox.

My dad chain smoking.

Elephant shit.

Leaded petrol.

A tax disc.

Same here! Boring rural village, last bus home from the nearest town, note, “town” not city, at about 7.15pm. Before we even went out!?!
lol at sticky steering wheel though 😄

A rust hole that you could poke the fuel tank through.... Was useful as my fuel gauge didn't work so you could see how low it was getting....how I survived my teens I'll never really know🤣

Umbrella style gear lever, sticking out of the dash board
An engine (current car has electric motor)
Sliding windows, they went forward and back rather than up and down
Drain holes, to let the water that leaked in, out through the floor
No rear seat belts
A clutch
L plates

@Snooks1971 no idea why it was sticky....took a few goes with a brillo pad before I solved the problem 🤣

Cigarette lighter

@shellyleppard 🤮
I had a sticky steering wheel once with a Saab and put it down to my horrible ex!

Haha yes I believe so - I was lucky with mine as it never gave me any trouble at all - I bought it for £200 and it had only had one owner, an old man who'd really taken care of it - hence the name "Christina" - "Christine" (thinking Stephen King) was a bit too close for my liking - it was red too.
I wasn't keen on the hatchback versions but mine had the longer wheelbase and an actual boot and then a huge towbar on the back.

Rug/torch . Tape player. Map. Thermos flask !

Only a driver's side wing mirror and a really slippy clutch which meant pulling out of first gear rattled your bones.

Water in the footwell. My first car (an old Austin MG) in which I learned to drive and passed my test, would steam up on rainy days. The road surface kicked up water and it was only the carpet holding the floor intact 😂 I LOVED that car.

@Snooks1971 🤣🤣🤣 i really really dread to think!!! 🤣🤣

I had to hitch a lift many times because it broke down so often! Given it was a pretty rural area I was lucky - but I think people were good at paying it forward.

I also had people flag me down to say that they’d owned it at some point.

Handbrake as in a proper leaver , now it’s a clip thing

A choke
a sunroof
window winders
a removable radio/cassette player