Dammit! I really missed out on a lot by being born in 1983 and allowing all the good stuff to pass me by!:
Those R-10's that everybody seems to love
Dark cars
Fast, loud rides
"Blinking" lights
The original sensual look of the R-40/42's.
Loud and windy fans with warm and humid currents instead of quiet and spoiling air conditioning.
The overall gritty, masculine condition of the subway.
Why, WHY, couldn't my parents have met 10 years earlier? WHY????
BTW - I don't use air conditioning in my room (my parents use it in the rest of the house, but not me - fans and open windows only). AC is bad for the environment, anyway!
(Well, okay, if the heat index is like 110, maybe I'll close my windows and open my door to let the AC from the other rooms seep in - and that's a big maybe!) I'm a "fresh air" type of person.