Have You Been Around For Long Enough To Know What This Is?

Jul 04, 2018

If you can tell what this item is off the top of your head, you may be getting up into the ages. Before you take a wild guess, here are a few hints. This component of cars was quite standard in the 1950s and began to disappear by the time the late 1990s rolled around. There is a pretty decent reason that they are no longer in existence, but some people are angry about this disappearance. It can be fairly expensive to make the addition yourself. Do you know what it is, or have you given on up on trying to figure it out?

The application happens to be the built-in ashtray. It seems somewhat absurd that cars would have these today, but times have changed since the mid-1900s. Cars even used to have cigarette lighters where your phone charger is now. A lengthy list of reasons contributes to why these do not exist anymore, including high pressure from the Surgeon General. There is also the fact that car doors needed to make space for technological advancements like the buttons that you can use to automatically control the window. Chrysler was actually the manufacturer of the last built-in ashtray. This was quite some time ago, back in the year 1996.

If you still enjoy the occasional smoke in the car, you probably had to install your own ash tray, or pay your car company extra to do it for you. Even if you don't, lots of cars still have the remnants of an ash tray - also known as that spot where you put all your loose change.

Things certainly have changed! Spread this story to your family and friends to see if they still remember this!