New automotive feature

Car dreams aren’t rare. Many of the items on my bedtime playlist are auto dealer films with tech details about cubic inches and suspensions. Those details inevitably leak into dreams. In this morning’s dream I was trying out a very specific car, a ’66 Plymouth Belvedere wagon, like this except dark blue:

My wife [who doesn’t exist in real life] and I were looking at it and discussing it with the owner. He wanted $3000 for it, and we were generally inclined to buy it because it had manual everything, no automatic crap. The rear part was big enough to sleep in if necessary.

This Plymouth had an extra feature well beyond those films or actual factory option lists. The extra sealed the deal.

Each door had a PRAY SWITCH just above the window crank. It was a little slider that you could push forward to send a prayer. I asked the owner how it worked, and he said the local Christian radio station had a subcarrier devoted to constant prayer, which was linked by the switch.

Since I don’t have a 66 Plymouth model, here’s how it would look in my R8, first outer view then inner.

I suspect the radio part came from here. I’ve been faithfully following Tessa’s suggestion, adding STOP WAR to my frequent little CW prayers with Soviet key and 40 meter QRP. The dream transposed the idea onto a car, since the car was already in the script.