Vintage car interiors

"VonBelmont" (jvonbelmont) 02/21/2015 at 00:42 • Filed to: Mini-rant

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No walls of ugly plastic buttons, overly elaborate infotainment systems, sickly green LEDs, a shitload of graphics, or useless features and dials here! Just your wheel, gearshift, speedo, fuel, time, wipers, A/C, and a radio. Nothing to break, nothing to date it faster than depreciation. Compared to modern cars, these '60s car interiors just feel so serene.

Considering all anyone needs nowadays is a radio, USB port, aux jack, and maybe a phone, it kinda baffles me why car companies insist on slapping giant screens and pointless functions on their cars. If I want navigation, voice command, and so on, I'll use my phone, thank you. Yeah, there's marketing and price points, but I'll gladly pay for basicness if it's beautiful.

My citroen won't start > VonBelmont 02/21/2015 at 00:53

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I'm partial to boxy and chunky, we need boxy and chunky back.

camaroboy68ss > VonBelmont 02/21/2015 at 01:35

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Nice and simple

DavidHH > VonBelmont 02/21/2015 at 02:05

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Perfection is when there is no junk left in the design left to remove. Unfortunately the industry is focusing on gimmicks and gadget, rather than good design.

Richtofen, Baron von Pickup > VonBelmont 02/21/2015 at 09:32

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From my '72 280SE. My pickup in the rearview mirror.

Jayvincent > VonBelmont 02/23/2015 at 20:56

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I'm a fan of classic dashes. Factory new or sun-baked

Jayvincent > VonBelmont 02/23/2015 at 20:59

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