Temperature-Down vs. Front-Defrost Buttons

My parents had the '58 bug (is that the only model there was), and I had a few opportunities to drive it with learners license. Little things stick in my mind, like you had to be fully stopped to shift back to first, the lack of a gas gauge (used a stick), and the manual choke. Mostly, the smell: love that VW smell, they still have that smell (at least as of about 10 years back), takes me back.

Our (my) first was an 81 Civic, and it had the manual choke still, the only vehicle we had thus. The next, an 83 Accord I believe, had automatic choke, that would automtically stall when touching the gas, after the first red light getting out of our subdivision, regular as clockwork. No recourse but to roll through, pull over and restart.

To be fair, there was a defective check valve. Dealership was not able to diagnose, I finally figured it out.