Burnside Special Interior questions

Can't find any heater controls for the Burnside, yes i know i am being extremely pedantic, but still, every other car has heater controls

Blue circled is the heater i think, red circled is the radio controls and to the left that knob i think is the dimmer for the instrument panel. No knob for the heater afaik
(im only pointing this out since i read loads on old car air conditioning systems and i usually see how they are represented in each car in BeamNG)

Also at night the gears aren't lit up, like your PRND is completely black with just a red needle there


Also the Burnside writing is very bright (and maybe wrong colour if lit up)

 

How old is the car again?


There you go.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_air_conditioning
We had airconditioning in cars before the Burnside, and considering the Burnside is a luxury vehicle it should be on the bleeding edge of technology (eg the 3 speed automatic)

 

Edited. (Didn't notice one thing at first).

 

Well the writing is chrome and just about every vehicle with chrome badging has a issue at night where it lights up. Probably a engine limitation and will be fixed one day. Look at the Barstow rear badging.
As for the heater and air conditioning. I don't think the Burnside has Air conditioning (despite it being luxury vehicle) and I think the heating is done by opening and closing the vent via a unseen vent controller on the heater. I believe the knob you pointed out is for the windshield wipers but I may be wrong and this may be invalid but just my 2 cents.
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So after talking to my father (who's late father was a car mechanic from the late 20's to the 80's) the left hand knob can be 1 of 3 things. Windshield wipers, lights or heater. Apparently the Burnside is missing 1 or 2 knobs unless the indicator leaver is similar to a modern day one where you can twist the end to either change lights or windshield wipers. Now due to its production timeline the only idea I can come up with is this:
Blue is for the windshield wipers with 3 options based on 1950's cars. Off, low and high or it could be a turn knob because its a luxury vehicle but it probably would have the fallowing. Off, low, medium, high, max
Yellow may not be possible but its a idea. While no car my father saw at my grandpas shop could do this in the early 1950's its within possibility. This is one of the first cars to have a twist light knob on the indicator leaver since the gear selector dose not make sense for safety reasons.
The above two can be switched but the idea still apply's. It solves the simple fact there is 1 missing knob. Now to solve missing knob 2
Missing knob 2 is simple (white is not in the correct spot due to screenshot position). I believe that out of sight there is a leaver or a vent control thing (see below I will edit if I find the name of the controlling part.). The reason why I say that there is no heat controller (aka I want 70 degrees fahrenheit and not 90 degrees fahrenheit) is due to the age of the vehicle and vent placement all heating comes directly from the engine block and you can have heat or no heat options. Only the speed of the heating may change based on how open the vent is.

Vent control idea

The scroll bar thing to the left

These are my understanding of older cars I do not own one and my father was not into cars but watch as my late grandfather worked on cars during the 1950's and 60's.
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Of-course it could just be a oversight by the devs.

 

Burnside is a very strange car. Ordinary cheap car that looks like Cadillac. Speaking of which...

This is Cadillac interior from 50s.



Looks familiar. Even knobs are in the same place. However there is something hidden - heater levers in that big vent. In this brochure from 1946 we can see them clearly.



Also Cadillac have second knob on the left side, hidden behind the steering wheel on every photo I found. Probably this is missing knob for wipers/lights.

Details, but without them everything looks odd.

PS. Looking at those lights above radio I notice that every original car in BeamNG don't have any interior lights.

 

Update after my father looked at the interior he confirmed that the left most nob is for the lights but, there is no windshield wiper knob anywhere with only 2 answers. A oversight (most likely) or my idea was right for windshield wipers but on the indicator leaver.
Edit:
We should get the devs who made the Burnside to explain what is what.

 

Hmmm, I think I made mistake. This big vent isn't actually a vent but big cover for radio speaker. Vents are under the dashboard.

 

I don't think that's right because if you look at the Barstow there are no speakers visable but there is a radio. So I think at the moment the devs have not put in speakers in any of there older vehicles yet.
You can check the Ibishu Miramar (a car from Japan and from a similar time period). It also dose not have speakers but has air vents for the feet.

 

If the Burnside had A/C, there would be a somewhat large unit in the trunk.

 

Every car in BeamNG have own flaws, imperfections etc.

Barstow model looks just unfinished. "Empty" dashboard, no speakers. Heck, window cranks looks like don't have handle (knob? IDK how to call it) to grab it.
Moonhawk however looks neat inside. You can see speakers, air vents, a lot of thing on dashboard. It even get pins on the doors! This is only car so far that have them!

So saying Burnside don't have speaker, because other models don't have it is kinda preposterous. Any car don't have seatbelts in BeamNG, but 200BX as the only one have seatbelt buckles. Grand Marshal and Covet are old models that don't have sun visors.

And finally, Burnside is from 50s (with interior based on Cadillac). This is how radio from Cadillac looks like.


Big and clunky, like typical radio from 50s but created for car.

 

I'm not a car expert but what I mean when comparing the 3 cars is this. All 3 are missing something that would normally be there and as such I believe that the Burnside is also missing things as well. A missing knob or other minor details that have no effect on the game-play might be missing due to time restraints, laziness (probably not it is but a possibly), or general oversight.