Netters: I think there were a lot of '50s & '60s model cars & maybe some latter imports that had thes sort of devices in the interior fendor front side-walls under the dash as well as the old late Subaru 360s & Honda 600s. I think these cars may be still made but whether you can get such parts for them here is something I can't answer. ( I had a '69 Subaru 360 and it had a cowl vent)
Don Lively ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harold Woods wrote: > Hi Netters. > A hot cabin is no fun. A friend did something about this when he built a > Jodel D-11. He acquired an automotive vent. This is probably from an old > model car. It was the kind that opened a hinged door into the wind. It was > often located in front of the car windshield and opened up into the wind. It > was manually actuated by a lever. He installed it at the top of his > windshield. > When you opened that little door up, ( approximately 3" x 5 ") you could > direst a hurricane of air at your self. It worked equally well on the ground > too as the wind blast from the prop hit it. Before any one gets too excited > about drag, there never seemed to be any penalty to airspeed when you > activated it. There was a good gasket around it's closed position. Rain > never entered. It was a simple arms reach to open/close it. His came off a > car but you could easily make one. > Regards, > Harold Woods > Orillia, ON. Canada. > haroldwo...@rogers.com > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html