Sometimes, the casualties of progress leave good things behind. The very basic, attainable Porsche 914 has three of my favorite lost features: a dog-leg manual transmission, pop-up headlights, and a parking brake to the driver’s left. My 2CV’s seats, entertainingly, could be used as picnic chairs, and on sunny days its roof could be wrapped open and closed like an ancient scroll. Rollover standards be damned, of course, but it was very nice indeed.
Romance aside, I’m also not sure that many people would enjoy the return of choke start. “Progress” means different things to different people, but what’s one old feature you wish had stuck around?
