There’s no question we’ve become spoiled. While our parents and grandparents routinely drove cars lacking such luxuries as power steering, power brakes, air conditioning, or power windows, today ...

Why did most big cars of the '50s and '60s come with overly large steering wheels? Because power-assisted steering was either a (costly) option or simply not available, leaving the driver to rely more ...

In the old days, V-belts were called fan belts, and most cars had only one. Then power steering, air conditioning, and even smog pumps came along, and the front of an American V-8 engine soon looked ...