GasSavers_JoeBob |
07-14-2008 07:53 PM |
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Originally Posted by theholycow
(Post 110680)
I suspect that they generally don't help, but mine doesn't seem to be hurting much. It does cause some small vortices which are visible on my window when it rains.
They're called ventvisors, and your subject line made me think of this:
https://farm1.static.flickr.com/245/5...3b3f0a568e.jpg
I love those and wish they were still around, even though they're ugly, they just feel so nice.
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Looks like someone tried to break into that car...
I remember many a summer day in my Corvair, turning those vent windows so they would blow back on me...they may have even saved my mother's life once....
We were moving to a new home about 20 miles away from our old place. My mother had a mattress and some other items loaded into the back of a Corvair station wagon. https://www.shorey.net/Auto/American/...agon%20r3q.jpgSince these items were too large for the back of the car, the hatch was pushed down as far as possible, and tied with a rope. It was a cold day, so the windows were up. About half way to the new house, she started feeling sick. She wound up turning those vent windows at her to force some air in her face, reviving her enough to make it to our new house. When my dad came home that evening, she told him the story, and wondered why she had been feeling sick. He laughed and said that the back end of the car created a vacuum and was pulling the exhaust right into the car, and she had been getting CO poisoning. And that she did just the right thing by turning those windows back on herself. And he added that next time, either leave items too long to fit for the moving van, or to leave the hatchback all the way open.
Thus was my first lesson in automotive aerodynamics.
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