Easy one , had a couple of names , Dimmer switch or High beam switch, haven't made up my mind which is better,on the floor or up on the turn signal handle. Pros and cons ,Floor switch keeps your hands on the wheel, didn't last long before getting full of dirt and water. Turn signal switch takes a while to figure out how to use it, some never do apparently does last the life of the car though.Bonus points for identifying this switch.
Scared the life out of me the first time.
Yeah, and that was not real helpful when it was pouring down rain and you were headed down the highway ...
When the column mounted dimmer switches first appeared I thought that the switch was better left placed on the floor for the simple reason that your left foot had nothing to do most of the time under the conditions where you would be toggling between high and low beams. The problem of water and salt destroying the floor mounted switches had long been solved by having the switch housing made of plastic and covered in waterproof rubber. What really killed the floor mounted switch was the addition of the ability to flash the high beam lights. This requires having both an on/off and a momentary switch. Both of these functions are much more easily handled by the hand operated switch.
I had this discussion with my dad decades ago, when I sad that high-beam is the 'normal' light position, and low-beam is for in-town and in traffic.
I just recently read that the above is more appropriate.
Wish my 66 bug had gas heater. Froze my ass off, and tube radio didn’t always work.
Not unknown. I once owned a Ford Escort and the heater always blew cold. Turned out the blue and red had been put on the wrong way round. So to get hot air you had to move the slider to the cold position.
I have owned many VW transporters/campers and a couple of Beetles. One very cold winter when I was visiting my cousins on the Canadian border the temperatures dipped to about -20 degrees. At the time I had a 1966 VW bus. I remember getting into the bus one cold morning and when I sat down it sounded like I was sitting on a pile of potato chips. The vinyl seat covers had hardened up from the extreme cold and the covers shattered when I sat down.
Granny had such, hand crank operated though...Got my hand caught in one when I was a kid...
VW Beetle had the window washer powered by the inflation pressure of the spare wheel... in odd weather you often ended with a flat spare... (at least it reminded you to top it off)Anybody remember when the windshield wipers were operated by vacuum pressure instead of an electric motor?
