What's old is new again. 1930's car cooler.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Dang, the Land Rover was ahead of its time.
That's a Defender, the Goat of off road vehicles.
I'm pretty sure this is the Goat of off roading:
Climbing 89° slopes because they crave that mineral
Must be really good shit, considering how many of them will die doing this
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BEHOLD THE POWER OF BAPHOMET!
ALL HAIL SATAN! 🤘
When you want the bugs shot directly into your face
If only we still had bugs.
But we don't, and that should fucking terrify everybody.
If only more people used redneck air conditioning. And I'm not kidding I'm going to school for HVAC cause I don't want to starve in the street. Do y'all understand how bad this shit is?? It was supposed to be a medical device and y'all mofos set that shit to 65 to sleep. I'm not bougie and I understand that the 1% does most of the polluting but we need to change how we live
Whole house fans need to make a comeback. Our house was built in the 1920s and has one from the early 60's before AC was common and I love that fucking thing. We still have some window AC units for really hot days or days when its hot and raining but it cuts WAAAAY down on how often we actually end up using them. Still uses some power obviously but nowhere near as much from what I can tell, and that's a 60 odd year old one.
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In practice, with a normal amount of bugs it doesn't really happen
The inside of the intake gets dirty as fuck.
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.
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According to my dad, bugs were the easiest cars to steal.
You could lower the window from the outside just by firmly pushing against it and down with both hands, then turn the ignition with a flathead screwdriver.
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 mirrors~~ quarter 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.
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.
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.
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Yes, the insects have been getting smarter, avoiding roads and living happy lives on lush meadows without disturbing us.
That's the reality I chose to believe in!
They have all gone to live happily on a farm.
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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.
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I wasn't trying to imply they aren't.
They could just remove the front and rear windshields and wear goggles.
Does it at least has a swamp cooler inside, for somewhat colder, but more humid air?
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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