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It seems like I remember old cars with what looked like a small radio antennae sticking out the bottom edge on the passenger side.
It helped when parallel parking. You could hear it scraping the curb to indicate you were close enough.

BillB wrote:It seems like I remember old cars with what looked like a small radio antennae sticking out the bottom edge on the passenger side.
It helped when parallel parking. You could hear it scraping the curb to indicate you were close enough.

Yep, Curb Feelers.

I never understood the need for those windshield visors.

GRANDPA wrote:They helped to preserve those expensive whitewall tires. Do you remember when you could get a visor that went over the windshield? For some reason, my Dad still has one for a car he hasn't owned for more than 60 years.

I remember them. It seems like they came on old Dodges or Buicks.

In the days before tinted windshields the external sun visors kept the sun from shining too brightly into your eyes.

The thing in the picture is a tennis ball. You hang it in the garage so that when you car window touches it as you pull in, you know you are far enough in for the garage door to close. I saved money and hung a used RX bottle instead of splurging for the kit pictured.