Oldsmobile 98. 3 tons of mailbox plowing steel bumpers, orange barrel throwing, luxuriously spaced seating, so much chrome it upsets local birds, and steel steel steel. Bumps in the road? Lol. Was that a twig or a curb we just rolled over? Cant tell. Can fit an extra three persons in the trunk comfortably with the subs and amps, if necessary, or a honda 185 three wheeler, and is unstoppable with a set of chains on the back in the snow. Longer than the Short Bus, a back seat that made most king size mattresses blush, with the gas mileage to match. Oh how I miss you Hooptie. RIP.

I remember even smoking in cars and using their ashtrays. Filling them up with butts and scooting them around or compacting the ash to make room for "just one more" because I "didn't have the time" to dump it out into a parking lot yet. I spent a long time not thinking that cigarette trash was garbage. It just seemed like it was a necessary part of daily life and that whatever was done in support of keeping it coming and not thinking much about it was entirely excusable and normal. I remember my parents smoking on airplanes.

Old luxury cars are the bomb. My girlfriend has an 84 Cadillac Eldorado project that has a cig lighter and ash tray for every seat - which is awesome on road trips when everyone wants a device charger. Plus they're super super comfortable. Even on old suspension it feels like riding on a floating couch.

Now if only the engine swap we did could keep any of its engine oil inside the oil pan, it'd be great...

I've been in lots of cars with blurry photos

My parents had an '88 Marquis that had cigarette lighters in the back doors. On a road trip as a kid, I learned how quickly those lighters heat up: pretty fast. Don't test it yourself.

My grandfather's car ashtrays in the back were absolutely packed with my garbage as a kid. Sorry Papa.

Oh yea, coin storage for the toll roads xD

they are still in some newish aircraft which always makes me giggle when I see them

Ah. The memories of being a wee kid and heating them up. And touching the red hot element. I think that's one of those experiences that everyone that has been near them as a kid has had.

I remember when lighters for all all seats was listed as a selling feature.

Shit. I forgot about those

If you were fast, there was a neat trick where you could use them as a bottle opener too.

And some actually did just straight up have bottle openers.

Idk about this one, although it does look like it is, but some were removable, so you could clean them and more easily use that nub to open bottles.

Nope I remember these. I think it was my grandfather's car?

If you're in the back seat of a Tesla, you'd better look at those things real carefully.

In the event of power loss (in the event of a crash and subsequent fire perhaps), the only way out will be to disassemble that and pull the release cable.