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Okay. Out of curiosity, where was it mounted?

And why is it electric? Did it hand them out pre-lit?

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I sold one of these a few months ago. The one I had was to be mounted on the steering coulumn and it had an electrical wire, which was to be connected to the hot side of the ignition, as I recall. When the driver pressed down on the cover, it enabled the lighter and automatically lighted the cigarette, which was presented to the driver. I can just imagine hitting a bump as the cigarette was sitting there lit and having it fall in your lap - "Goodness, gracious, great.........", well. I'm sure you get the picture.

Could you imagine such an unsafe product being sold today ?

-Bob

What, like a cigarette?

Good one, Gene

I am maybe a little dense, but I don't understand the mindset of anyone installing every possible stupid, I mean impractical, accessory on a car. Are extra points awarded for freak cars?

George

I agree with you 100% George about all of these accessories being added to cars.

You fellows date yourself by your comments.

Late 40's and early 50's accessories ruled the world. As soon as you were able to own a car the hunt started. I'm sure you don't remember, but stores like WESTERN AUTO and OKLAHOMA TIRE & SUPPLY were major sources of accessories. No self respecting owner would show up at a gathering without a squirrel knob (with a picture of Marilyn Monroe), a fox tail from the tip of the antenna, brezzies, bug splitter for front of hood, plastic rocket on antenna, extra mirrors, seat covers, interior window moldings that had been chrome plated, a venation blind in the rear window, 1940 F ** D convertibles with the dash and everything that could be unbolted chrome plated, a spotlight, glass packs, and the list was endless. If you can locate a Sears or Montgomery Ward catalog from around 1950, take a look in the automotive section. More accessories than money available.

Really, why do we restore these cars? Isn’t it so we can relive our childhood? So it is only natural that any accessory you had on your car must be located and installed on your toy.

skirts,blue dots ,glass packs with about a quart of oil poured into them before you installed 'em (so they burned out and sounded ---GREAT !! Warshawski's A.K.A. j.c.whitney's store on state st.in Chicago on a Saterday morning with every sixteen or seventeen guy in chicago paying for "GREAT STUFF" with a fist full of singles and five's ,going home putting all that GREAT STUFF on the car and -------------head to the drive in !!

Ray, how could you forget J.C. Whitney, the king of accessories, LOL.

Putting these items on our Chevys sort of goes against the mission of the VCCA, doesn't it?

And the uniform of the day was blue jeans, black loafers, white socks, white "T" shirt with a pack of cigarettes rolled up on the shoulder of one sleeve and axle grease in the hair and a hair brush in the back pocket.

I preferred the accessory "Mickey Mousers" myself!

YA----your only choice was brycream or wildroot !!! Be there or be square !!!

I remember another "automatic" lighter.If I remember correctly it plugged into the existing lighter,the cigarette was inserted into a hole and a button was pressed to light the cigarette....would be a good companion accessory to the vacuum ash tray sold by Chevrolet in the late '50's.

Where did the vacuum ash tray ashes go Gene?

Ray, I'm sitting here in blue jeans, white tee shirt, white socks, black loffers beside the Lazy Boy, only differences is I gave up cigarettes when I got out of service alive and I use a comb w/o grease, "a little dab will do ya". LOL Am I out of style??

PS---No DA either...

Actually I'm not dating myself, I am regionallizing myself. I was in Southern California in those years and removing anything that didn't make it go was the norm. I always laughed when I saw fenderskirts advertized as a California or Hollywood look and flying anything from the antenae, if you had one, was considered countryish. Leadsleds were the only skirted cars. I see a much higher proportion of sun visored cars of the fifties now than I ever saw in the fifties and now I even some with visors that I had never seen with visors when they were new.

George

...So what, Fearless Fosdick, if I wouldn't walk a mile for a Camel and they now cost $3.00 a pack, and who cares if they hide the Sudafed...just as long as the old sawbones keeps giving out those Zantac samples and the free six-packs of Viagra or was that Viatilis?!!! He! He!

Feed your chicks Nutrena! and Amalie is the oiler oil!

Gator,

I can now use a comb without teeth fairly succesfully, and Butch Wax was our hair preperation of choise back then.

George

Ray, I reckon you not only dated your self but also placed your self back then...Oklahoma Tire and Supply! Now that was a place right up there with Whites Auto and Western Auto.


Feed Your chicks Nutrena!....and your Horses Nutrena Horse and Mule feed .....and now another song from the Stamps Ozark Quartet!...neighbor, keep them cards and letters coming!

There will be ABSOLUTLY no ANTI-Accessory talk aloud in the 46-48 forum.

Seriously though, I dont feel it is fair to call a car with alot of accessorys a "FREAK CAR" The only bad thing about accessorys are the RIDICULOUS prices being charged for them now a days. Other then that I think they are fascinating little do dads. What 46-48 Fleetmaster doesnt look better with wing tips, chrome gravel guards, and skirts? It totally changes the look of the car for the better!! And I dont feel it takes away from our mission either by putting genuine chevrolet accessorys in a genuine chevrolet car. IMHO

Does that mean I can keep my J.C. Whitney Dixie horns ????

OOPs...sorry , wrong pew!

Sorry if I offened, FM47. The 46-48 forum does appear to be more accessory conscious than any other.

My parents always put seat covers on their new cars and lived with the slick, uncomfortable contraptions just to save the comfortable seats for the next owner. I doubt they got the cost of the seat covers back when they sold the cars. I remember turning a left corner a little too quickly and sliding across the seat in one of their cars, fortunately without any damage done.

George

Fingerhut to the rescue!..... Our new custom woven plastic seatcovers are guarenteed to not slip , slide or sling gravel! ( one size fits all) Hog rings NOT supplied with the order!

"Actually I'm not dating myself, I am regionallizing myself. I was in Southern California in those years and removing anything that didn't make it go was the norm. I always laughed when I saw fenderskirts advertized as a California or Hollywood look and flying anything from the antenae, if you had one, was considered countryish. Leadsleds were the only skirted cars. I see a much higher proportion of sun visored cars of the fifties now than I ever saw in the fifties and now I even some with visors that I had never seen with visors when they were new.

George "

Funny how things have changed, George. I help finance this addictive old car habit by buying & selling old aftermarket accessories. The cigarette dispenser I sold recently, was purchased at the Hershey swap meet last fall for a very small amount of money. I put it on Ebay and got 6x what I paid for it......from a guy in California! In fact, the vast majority of aftermarket stuff I sell goes to California - guess when the average house price is half a million, the price of "toys" seems like a bargain !!!!

BTW, to save server space and arguements, NO, I don't feel guilty at the prices paid for stuff. I start my auctions out to cover what the items cost me, describe & picture them honestly, and the rest is up to the desire of the Bidders - I've never forced anyone to pay astronomical prices. Heck, everybody knows we old car guys are nuts anyway. -Bob

The cigarette ashes from the vacuum ash tray were sucked into a container under the hood.

Thanks Gene, I don't think I have ever seen one on a car.

So you had to pop your hood to dump your ash tray with the vacuum tray...instead of opening your car door at a traffic light and dumping the pull out ash tray on the road while waiting for the light to change ...LOL.