...HA! Over 30 years ago, I was talking about "counter clockwise" to a kid. After referencing it a few more times, I could tell he didn't really understand. He didn't know what this phrase meant as he explained he only owned digital clocks & watches.
About 20 years ago.... it's literally cheaper to install electronic window lifts & switches than it is to engineer mechanical gears & cranks. I do know that about 10 years ago, some makes & models still offered cranks, but it was super rare.
Today, I sincerely doubt anyone offers them AND (get this ) more & more foreign makers are starting to offer one-touch-button door closures. No more door pulls or handles to shut doors..... just push a button. 😀 😎Â
The internet offers this: Packard had introduced hydraulic window lifts (power windows) in fall of 1940, for its new 1941 Packard 180 series cars.[1] [2] This was a hydro-electric system. In 1941, the Ford Motor Company followed with the first power windows on the Lincoln Custom (only the limousine and seven-passenger sedans).[3]
But thinking back, personally, on the cars I have owned it was a 1966 Olds (bought used) that was my first car with power windows.
...I think my 1968 Buick Skylark Custom convertible (that I bought in 1981 ) was the first car I owned with power windows and seats, in an all-white interior. I really liked it.
...I think my 1968 Buick Skylark Custom convertible (that I bought in 1981 ) was the first car I owned with power windows and seats, in an all-white interior. I really liked it.
My 1955 Imperial and 1963 Thunderbird Sports Roadster both have power windows which were optional on both. I just finished rebuilding the hydraulic windows on a friends 46 Lincoln convertible.
My 1955 Imperial and 1963 Thunderbird Sports Roadster both have power windows which were optional on both. I just finished rebuilding the hydraulic windows on a friends 46 Lincoln convertible.
The first car I ever personally saw that had power windows was a 1960 Cadillac 6-window sedan, white over metallic green, owned by the father of a neighborhood kid I knew. The car was the talk of my village (similar below).
The first car I ever personally saw that had power windows was a 1960 Cadillac 6-window sedan, white over metallic green, owned by the father of a neighborhood kid I knew. The car was the talk of my village (similar below).
Mom and dad owned a '58 Buick that had them, but, coincidentally, we later had a '60 Caddy. It was a white convertible. I took my driver's license test in that car!
