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I remember, as a little kid, being "in charge" of telling my father when to dip the headlights because I saw the glare of a car coming over the next hill or around the next curve. Of course he saw it too, and wouldn't blind an oncoming driver, but he'd make it seem like it was all up to me.

That would've been around 1980, in some kind of late-70s Pontiac, I can't remember what model, maybe a Bonneville. But it definitely had a floor switch.

IIRC, a big problem with them was that they would rust out in areas that salt the roads in winter, when the driver would track in salty slush on their boots.




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