Anyone admit to owning/wanting one of these?

[Cycleops]

....or even remembering. From the heyday of motoring:

 

[Ian H]

That really is grimly 'orrible.

 

[Teamfixed]

A safe, gravity fed, ready lit anti fumbling device?
I'm off to Halfords!

 

[tyred]

Would be an interesting novelty to have if you had a Ford Zephyr or something from back in the day. It seems a bit of a gimmick really and I will never smoke a cigarette ever again anyway.

 

[MontyVeda]

awesome!

Youngsters these days just can't get their heads round what it used to be like; tiny ashtrays on the end of the armrests on the trains, watching movies through a thick fog of fag smoke, the lady in the grocery store smoking behind the counter.... all recent history for many of us but a completely different world for them

 

[Teamfixed]

I spent some time in Southampton general having my ankle screwed back together back in about 1980. There were still patients smoking on the ward (although they had to sit out of the bed) Bizarre!

 

[steveindenmark]

I have one on my Brompton. 😊

 

[Cycleops]

I have one on my Brompton. 😊

I daren‘t ask if our most notable smoking CCer has one

 

[Tom...]

"Comes out lighted"

 

[Smokin Joe]

I daren‘t ask if our most notable smoking CCer has one

Not yet...

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I'm off to Halfords post haste to see if they've got stock.

 

[gbb]

43 shillings and 9pence was bloomin expensive

 

[Cycleops]

43 shillings and 9pence was bloomin expensive

Ah, but the groundbreaking technology involved . As cool as a iPhone back then.
Also cool were those in car audio that played vinyl 45s. My friends father has one in his Bentley we used to ‘borrow’ when he was away.

 

[figbat]

Even the once-ubiquitous cigarette lighter - the one that would pop out at solar temperatures and melt anything it was dropped on - is long gone and many current drivers of the younger generation wouldn't even recognise it.

 

[tyred]

Even the once-ubiquitous cigarette lighter - the one that would pop out at solar temperatures and melt anything it was dropped on - is long gone and many current drivers of the younger generation wouldn't even recognise it.

Even Massey Ferguson fitted them to the 100 range of tractors in the '60s. They didn't bother providing silly things like a cab or brakes that worked properly but at least you could light your fag and relax when freezing to death or hurtling towards oblivion with overheating, fading brakes