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I had a 1960 Falcon that had one of those. Right next to it was a rubber bulb you pumped with your foot for the windshield washers. At night it was funny, go for the brights & wash your window. Try & wash your window & kick the brights on. Step on the gas & the wipers stopped, fun with vacuum wipers. Cars were so much more fun back then.

 

Was a time that all the cars had one of those for the hi beams. Are you sure it's not the starter? Anybody remember hitting a foot switch to START the car?

 

It's a dip switch.

 

We had a willies Jeep that had a foot peddle starter.

 

Remember this ? It's now extinct and replaced with a idiot light for idiots.

 

Foot starter switch was cool.

Foot hi/low beams was cool too.

I remember a number of cars as I grew up that had variations. GMC truck, Jeep, much more fun to drive back in the day.

Don

 

Courteous, yes... Maybe we should bring em back!

 

That brilliant idea will sneak up and bite them on their little heinies down the road I'm a-bettin'.

 

Who remembers the little lever on the lower firewall for the reserve fuel

tank on early VW's? (the ones without a fuel gauge).

 

This seems like a "older than dirt if you remember this " thread.

Headlight High beam switch

 

Yup I had a car with the high beam switch on the floor.

 

My 69 TR6 has that! That's a thing they should have keep!

 

Oh and I forgot to mention, we used these foot switches back in the earlier days to activate the growler siren and air horns... Actually, they're still used for that purpose on some rigs.

 

My '81 AMC had the high beam switch on the floor... Also, pretty much all the military junk (humvees and other light/medium duty trucks) still have a floor switch.

I wish automatic headlights where never invented... Maybe then, people would realize the blue light on the dash doesn't mean your regular headlights are on! I miss the spotlights that where on the Jeep on my drive to work in the morning.

 

My first car, a '63 Nova SS convertible had one. I thought that switch it was supposed to kick in the after burners, but all it ever did was dim the darn headlights....

 

I've owned cars where that ran totally different functions:

1. A headlight bright/dimmer switch.
2. A windshield washer fluid pump switch with an outer ring that actuated the wipers. (They could run together at the same time, or with a "heel & toe" push on the ring, you could get the wipers to swipe.)

 

Yes. My '38 Ford pickup had a foot starter. My kid just sold an old Ferguson tractor that started with the gear selector stick.

 

Most cars probably pre- 1973 some even later, had those for the High Beams. My '68 Mustang had another foot lever to activate a one pass of the wipers..