The phone on the center console is reminiscent of the Bat Phone, kind of. Placement is different, color is different. Shape is the same. I guess one out of three ain't bad.
When I used to work at a Ford dealership (SoCal) as a tech back in the late 70s through the 80s I owned a 1978 Cougar XR-7, my first new car purchase. One late afternoon I was leaving the dealership at the end of the work day, and our service manager was in the outdoor lanes. It occurred to me, as I was getting ready to exit via the service lanes, that I had an AT&T desk phone on the front seat, as I had just purchased my own handset and was going to return the rental phone (remember those days?). As I began to roll out the driveway I reached over and picked up the hand set and pretended to be talking to someone on the phone just as he was waving goodbye to me. Because both of my hands were busy (one steering, one holding the phone transceiver to my head), I gave him a "head bob" with a smile. The look on his face was incredulous. He was under the (correct) assumption that I had enough banked to not work for two years if I did not want to (the idea being I was not trapped or enslaved like many other folks I worked with), and he believed I came "from money" (another correct assumption). Back then very few people had car phones (ship-to-shore portable devices that were incredibly expensive to buy, install, much less operate). I had a good snicker with that one little prank. The rumor mill began to go nuts about how I was going to be buying out the dealer (not true) because I was loaded (parents, yes. Me, not quite that much, but comfortable - not ship-to-shore phone comfortable though). Fun days...
Bat phone is red, at the very front of the center console, for those that care <g>...
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