This circuit was found in an EDN from the 90s. The circuit employs a double 555 and uses the courtesy light switches of the car as sensors.
This interesting adjustable power supply uses the transistors themselves as controllers and...
This alarm from an old 1978 publication uses PNP transistors and driver and output transformers that are...
This is a typical source of the time (1989) using the well-known regulator integrated circuit 723....