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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jul 11, 2009 7:27 am) 
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jul 11, 2009 7:27 am)
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Replying to: hpmctorque (Jul 11, 2009 7:44 am) But if you were driving in the desert, or on a crowded city street with 90 degree humidity, you just suffered. Most 50s and 60s cars also put out a tremendous amount of engine and transmission heat. I remember T-Birds were notorious for this. I also recall one time sitting in traffic in my old Jaguar, on a 20 degree winter day. The engine was overheating and starting to boil, and yet, just on the other side of the firewall, my feet were blocks of ice. I often wondered why the British couldn't get that amount of heat up front, good enough to melt steel, just a few inches backward into the passenger compartment.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jul 11, 2009 7:27 am)
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 11, 2009 8:20 am) |
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| ....last car we had with ventipanes was the aforementioned Econoline, also had them in mom-n-dad's '72 Chevy pickup. Great if your mom is a smoker, too. I also remember cars with vents that let in so much air, were not filtered, that you'd get things like bugs and leaves through them. Not so nice, but gives you an idea of how much airflow they had. | |
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Replying to: hpmctorque (Jul 10, 2009 9:47 pm) I agree that was a common attitude. Don't forget that city and town dwellers don't use their cars that often. That explains a lot of the reason why I never bothered getting air when I was a New Yorker but I didn't hesitate to order air con once I was doing sales routes and commuting by car. I knew a woman from Vermont who as recently as the early 90s bought cars without air. I had no idea you could even order a '92 corolla without it.  A lot of people might be surprised to learn that most residents of Northern New England, like myself, still do not have air conditioning in their homes. We don't even have (or need) a window unit. When it gets too hot/humid like today I just head for the basement. For the life of me I don't understand why homes in the hot, arid Southwest are built without basements, It's always cool below grade level. Cars and trucks are a different matter being metal boxes that heat up quickly, cool down slowly and have no basements. 
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jul 11, 2009 7:27 am) Not me, I hated those things, not only did they spoil the line of the car but they weren't all that efficient at cooling the interior (or at defrosting). About the only thing my old TR-4 was better at than the Fiat 124 that followed it was top up ventilation. TRs didn't have little vent windows, they had (what a concept) in-dash vents that resemble those on air-conditioned cars>  Those got air from a simple flap forward of the window, simple, bullet-proof and a lot more effective than a couple of puny little windows. 'Course they were the only thing on a TR-4 that worked every time.  See my previous post for a tale of how piss poor vent widows were. |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jul 11, 2009 7:56 am)
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Replying to: hpmctorque (Jul 11, 2009 1:55 pm) 
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