What’s old is new again. 1930’s car cooler.
That would be genious if it didn’t need an open window.
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.
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.
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?
