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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Maybe it was an idea from back when trucks used to always have those little triangle windows?
I miss these. There’s many a day that i wish I had one of these vents on my work van
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.
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 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.
I know of a guy who died when his old Beetle rolled over on the highway. I wouldn’t feel confident in one at speed.
I’ve often thought that
wing mirrorsquarter glass should make a comeback. We must have solved the whistling problem by now.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.
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.
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