It’s a bit of an understatement to claim that cars have changed a lot over the last 50 years, but those changes have a greater impact on how we live — and how we speak — than we realize. In , some old slang I haven’t heard before re-emerged.

“Three on the tree” refers to a column shifter tucked behind a steering wheel on an old three-speed car, but since there haven’t been any mainstream cars sold with that sort of technology in ages, it just isn’t familiar to people like me.

, if you’re looking for a good read on those, but I want to talk more broadly about old car slang that’s fallen out of use.

What’s some salesman or car talk slang you remember that you haven’t heard in forever?