<VV> Wipers, was: English> hardtop thread

[Harry Yarnell]

Correction; VW used the spare tyre air to pressurize the window WASHER.

Harry Yarnell
perryman garage and orphanage
perryman, MD
hyarnell1@earthlink.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "airvair" <airvair@richnet.net>
To: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk>
Cc: "Sadek Charles H DLVA" <SadekCH@nswc.navy.mil>; "'Thomas Stingl'"
<tsc01@corvair.de>; "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: <VV> Wipers, was: English> hardtop thread


> My dad once had a '54 Chevy with the standard stovebolt 6, powerslide,
> and vacuum wipers. Talk about a deadly combination! It was the kind of
> car that you had to stand on the gas to pull away from the curb. VW
> beetles could blow its doors off. It only had two throttle positions,
> idle and floorboard. In a rainstorm, the way you got anywhere was to
> stand on the gas til you couldn't see anymore, then let off so the
> wipers would beat furiously, then stand on it some more, etc.
>
> He loved the car so much that he made me drive it to college. I hated
> it. Took me a couple of months to scrape up enough to go buy my first
> Corvair, so maybe it served its purpose.
>
> BTW VW's ran the wipers off the spare tire air pressure. Bazzare!
>
> -Mark
>
> Alan and Clare Wesson wrote:
>
> > And there was no problem with non-functioning wipers with it open (you
> > just peered out through the open gap at the bottom) - and they didn't
> > really function at all, not because they were Lucas, but because they
> > were American Trico vacuum ones like on 50s Chevs etc., with the
> > difference that on 30 hp there was seldom enough vacuum to make them
> > work.
> >
> > It might seem amazing to you that in the country where Lucas are
> > based, it's American windshield wipers that people joke about -
> > strange, but true.
> >
> > (;-)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alan
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