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Thread Number: 94988
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Vintage Wards "Car Cooler" |
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Post# 1196353 12/31/2023 at 23:29 by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Post# 1196357 , Reply# 1 12/31/2023 at 23:48 by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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It was filled with ice and attached to the passenger door window and as you drove down the road, air was forced through the ice and into the car with little droplets of water before the ice melted. The melt water flew out of the back. | ||
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Post# 1196361 , Reply# 2 1/1/2024 at 00:13 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Thank you!
You mean to tell me persons drove down public motorways with a bit of metal suspended from car windows? Sounds inherently dangerous to one's ears.
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Post# 1196362 , Reply# 3 1/1/2024 at 00:27 by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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You used to see these a lot back in the 50’s and 60’s. I never rode in a car that had one so I don’t know how well they worked. But back then many people didn’t have AC in their cars so in very hot weather anything that cooled off the car would have been welcome.
Drivers on long summer time journeys used to also carry burlap sacks filled with water strapped to the front bumpers to cool off an overheated radiator. They were called “Desert Bags”. Eddie This post was last edited 01/01/2024 at 01:31 | ||
| Post# 1196363 , Reply# 4 1/1/2024 at 00:36 by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 1196372 , Reply# 7 1/1/2024 at 07:14 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Evaporative cooler for your car
These could work fairly well in a dry climate, as mentioned pretty useless here on the East Coast where humidity is the biggest part of the problem.
Seen these at car shows they tend to go for a lot of money because people want them to complete their vintage older car., I think Thermidor sold a lot of them also. The air drag at 60 miles an hour would probably use as much energy as a modern car air conditioner. however, early automobile air-conditioning used a lot of energy and put quite a load on the engine. John | ||
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Post# 1196396 , Reply# 9 1/1/2024 at 15:08 by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Some folks used to resort to extreme measures to cool off on long road trips before AC became common place in autos. For instance, when my Aunt and Uncle and their kids drove to Las Vegas for the first time in 1962 they had a ‘59 Mercury Monterey 2 DR HT with no AC. By the time they got to Southern Calif and were headed east to Las Vegas my aunt, who had kidney disease was burning up with the heat. Uncle Ray pulled into a gas station and bought a 25 lb block of ice and wrapped it in towels and Aunt Imogene held that block of ice on her lap for the rest of the way to Las Vegas.
Shortly after they got back home they traded the ‘59 Merc for a used ‘61 Thunderbird with AC and they never again had a car without AC after that. My family never had a car with AC the whole time I lived at home. Mom didn’t get a car with AC until ‘81 when they bought a new ‘81 Malibu. I didn’t have a car with AC until ‘89 when I bought a new ‘89 Hyundai Sonata. This was right after we came home from a trip to Santa Barbara in our ‘86 Honda Civic hatchback with no AC. All the way home I had the windows down and it was like a blast furnace until we reached San Francisco. I drove all the way home and David had fallen asleep. When we got to Gonzales on Hwy 101 he woke up and said, “Do we have to have the GD windows down?” I said, “Yeah, unless you wanna fry your a** off!” There was no peace until we reached the welcome fog on the Golden Gate bridge. I seldom use the AC in the car, but when it’s hot as hell I’m sure glad to have it! Eddie | ||
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Post# 1196434 , Reply# 12 1/2/2024 at 08:27 by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Rex, | ||
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Post# 1196438 , Reply# 14 1/2/2024 at 13:18 by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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 Our '57 Lincoln's AC system had round vents placed in each of the four corners of the ceiling. The evaporator and blower were located in the trunk. Two wide, oblong clear plastic tubes ran from the rear dash up to the ceiling to feed the vents. My parents always told us to aim the adjustable vents toward the center of the cabin (the louvers were stationary but the entire assembly could be turned). That never worked and even today's cars' AC systems need to blow the cooled air onto a person to have any effect. I'd turn the vent towards myself when nobody was looking. | ||
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