12-15-2006, 05:24 PM
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That is a great innovation from the 1940s.
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12-15-2006, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Brucelee
That is a great innovation from the 1940s.
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Hi,
Earlier than that. My very 1st car was a 1939 Ford Coupe. It had a starter button on the floor. Switch on the ignition with the key, depress the clutch, and then press the starter button with your foot to engage the starter motor...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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12-15-2006, 09:21 PM
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i get the start switch...but a race mode? how the hell would that work?
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12-15-2006, 10:11 PM
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My first car was an English 2 seat sports car called a Sumbeam Alpine. Think it was a 1960. Cost $250. No key as the ignition switch was broken. Came with a screwdriver.
Went to the wrecking yard and got an ignition switch from an old Jag. The Jag had a dash starter button so I got that as well. Put both in the Sunbeam.
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12-16-2006, 12:01 AM
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I dont know about those race mode buttons, all I got was their engine start button. Cost $40 though.
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12-16-2006, 04:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Tool Pants
My first car was an English 2 seat sports car called a Sumbeam Alpine. Think it was a 1960. Cost $250. No key as the ignition switch was broken. Came with a screwdriver.
Went to the wrecking yard and got an ignition switch from an old Jag. The Jag had a dash starter button so I got that as well. Put both in the Sunbeam.
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Toolpants. My first car was a '75 TR6. Same deal with the ignition switch. Only I used the key from a '77 KZ1000 motorcycle. The exhaust rusted off the poor car so my buddy's and I used the 4into 1 exhaust pipe from the KZ100. 16 years old and broke? You do what you gotta do..
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12-16-2006, 05:18 AM
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I guess I don't understand the start-button fad. Why add another step to starting the car?
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12-16-2006, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by John V
I guess I don't understand the start-button fad. Why add another step to starting the car?
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I too was never able to figure that out. The only answer I've seen so far is that it's cool. I wonder if cranking the motor with a crank bar (in addition to turning the key, and pushing the button) would not be even cooler. Just throwing it out there. 
Z.
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12-16-2006, 06:14 AM
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Originally Posted by MNBoxster
Hi,
Earlier than that. My very 1st car was a 1939 Ford Coupe. It had a starter button on the floor. Switch on the ignition with the key, depress the clutch, and then press the starter button with your foot to engage the starter motor...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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Yes, I remember those too! The dash button was hailed as a great innovation.
Then there was the key start.
So, now we go BACKWARDS for our bling!
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01-23-2012, 04:21 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MNBoxster
Hi,
Earlier than that. My very 1st car was a 1939 Ford Coupe. It had a starter button on the floor. Switch on the ignition with the key, depress the clutch, and then press the starter button with your foot to engage the starter motor...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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Even older than that ... my 1930 Ford Model A that I restored while in high school had a floor-mounted starter button. Some Model T's also were fitted with starters in the 1920s and they too had the starter button on the floor.
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01-21-2012, 10:34 AM
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Hmmm
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That is a great innovation from the 1940s.
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Old is new again.. my 1949 Hudson convertible had a push button starter as did many others up and including 1953.
But hey if you think they are cool go for it.
Seems to be an answer to a question nobody asked. 
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