What’s old is new again. 1930’s car cooler.
Dang, the Land Rover was ahead of its time.
That’s a Defender, the Goat of off road vehicles.
Yeah, who doesn’t want hot and humid air blowing in their face on a hot and humid day?
Don’t forget about the bugs! Bees and wasps, funnelled right at your face. Pure, car crash convenience.
I’ll be honest. I think insects are either learning not to go around roads or there are way fewer insects. I can’t remember the last time I had a bug on my windshield
The insect apocalypse is real.
Every gas station used to carry bug-b-gone to get the guts off your windshield and headlights.
We’re something like 75% down seasonally and 80% down midsummer since 2000.
I hate bugs but it makes me sad for the critters that eat bugs because they’re generally awesome and cute.
Real easy to slap some wire mesh in there and let it filter out the bugs
Better than nothing.
That would be genious if it didn’t need an open window.
Maybe it was an idea from back when trucks used to always have those little triangle windows?
When I had a Volkswagen, I called it, “180-60 air conditioning.” Flip it 180° and drive 60 mph.
Funny enough my dad used to mention about 4*80 ac in the car for similar reasons, which makes me wonder if there where a lot of speeding tickets at the time.
Yeah, I didn’t have to worry about speeding in my bug.
I got to 85 mph in mine once on a straightaway while on a long trip. It wouldn’t go faster, but the engine gave it everything no questions. It also didn’t feel all that safe, so I didn’t do it again. Would I recommend a Beetle to anyone today, absolutely not. But I loved all four that I had in the past, and wouldn’t have traded them if I didn’t have to. A fun and needy death trap.
I know of a guy who died when his old Beetle rolled over on the highway. I wouldn’t feel confident in one at speed.
I miss these. There’s many a day that i wish I had one of these vents on my work van
I’ve often thought that
wing mirrorsquarter glass should make a comeback. We must have solved the whistling problem by now.Have wing mirrors gone away?
I meant quarter glass.
Some days I shouldn’t comment before coffee.
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I hate to be that guy, but they’re actually called vent glass/windows, even in modern vehicles where they don’t open to ventilate. The quarter glass is in the rear of the vehicle on the quarter panel.
In the janky old vehicles I had back when that was a thing I would do stuff like smear some heavy grease on the edge to block the wind. Bottom dollar cars get bottom dollar fixes.
My sister had a Plymouth Duster with little flaps under the dash that you could open to vent in some air from the outside.
The faster you go, the cooler you are. And also cooler.
Beyond the moderate dubiousness of the intended mechanism here, if that thing isn’t somehow strapped down or secured beyond being nestled into the half rolled up window, that could very easily come ajar from significant braking or accelerating.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in cars where the driver just piles loose shit all over their dash, or has a fucking chandelier attached to their rearview mirror, which have come loose and hit people in the face or gotten wedged in some wonky position, and this has lead to an actual or near car accident.
It rolling off the dash is the least of people’s problems. Depending on the location it might just get launched into your face at 100 miles an hour by an airbag deploying.
Whenever I see people with their feet up on the dash I know they have never seen a person after an air bag has hit them .
This cannot be good for your fuel efficiency.
Neither are other methods of air conditioning/circulation.
man my old Cruze dropped about 1/3 of its power efficiency if you wanted to use AC while trying to get up to speed and merge on the highway
gotta cut the cooling to engage the afterburners
As a geek, I want to refer to this as transferring life support to main engines.
I still do that in my fiesta. Easier than kicking out a passenger
At least your fiesta gets up that fast. I had an old tempo. when I got up to 50 it rattled so bad. One time, I was very fortunate no one was behind me and it was a country road with very little traffic, because at 55 the rear passenger door fucking fell off. I was so mad I almost left the door there, but I popped it back on the hinge, latched it shut, locked the door, broke the lock knob so no one would ever open it again, and then duct taped the thing on as best I could.
I did not go on a lot of dates when I drove that car.
There’s something reassuring to me about hacks like this (also standard Tempo experience?). Borrowed a friend’s truck last week and he have me a list of things that might seem like problems but not to worry about
My Dodge Shadow and Neon were the same.
I wasn’t trying to imply they aren’t.
They could just remove the front and rear windshields and wear goggles.
ooooook, in the city this would create your own smog box!
Where do you think the ac gets it’s air from? Either inside the cabin, or the same place this thing gets it’s air from.
Except the car’s HVAC system passes air through a filter. How much of a difference that makes is going to depend on the type of filter and whether it’s been changed sufficiently often, but it’s definitely doing more than nothing.
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Does it at least has a swamp cooler inside, for somewhat colder, but more humid air?
