Wireless Cab Greatest Thing Since Electric Wipers!

Ever use a manual wiper? They preceded vacuum wipers.

My first car a, VW, had vac wipers and ran into a storm in Denver and had to prctically hold head out the window to see all the way to Milwaukee. Back then being teens didn't realize weather moved West to East. If we sat a day things poss clear up.

Bad Order, you saving time and money with that MRC vs. a battery car. 

       
       


LOL..
You would of if you were a passenger in my 1960 Willys Jeep.  I never had a problem with the Vacuum Wipers…going down hill.

K.C.

 

No, I never used a manual wiper, but I read about 'em in automotive history books. 

 

But to be technically correct, the vacuum motor ran on atmospheric pressure, with the vacuum on the inside surface of the rectangular "piston".

 

In 1944, my family and I came to California in a 1928 Hudson/Essex Super Six (shown), and it had a vacuum tank which maintained a vacuum during the times when the engine was using it all from the intake manifold, so the wipers would never stall!

 

That car was built like a Steam Locomotive, and even looked like one!        (Note the crank-open windshield...most cars of that era had 'em.)

 

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LOL I was going to post the same. 61 Willys station wagon 3 speed, flathead 6 worthless wipers

Mine had the Hercules Flat Head 4, and a T-90 transmission..she was wound tight at 50 mph

K.C.

 

Well sir, I had 4 cars in high school: 

 

1934 Plymouth   (Paid $35 for it, ran great...had "free-wheeling", a stupid innovation.)

 

1941 Dodge    (An "old man's" car...my Dad insisted I buy it.)

 

1936 Ford   (Stripped out 2nd gear during a drag race...bought a used transmission from a wrecking yard for $8...had to remove it myself, which was OK.)

 

1942 Chevrolet   (Once a week, I would pull the valve cover on the Chevy and tighten up the valve lash, then take it for a high speed run on Vermont Ave.  On a good day I could get an even 70 MPH! 

 

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vacuum windshield wipers, ah what fun, just like the vaccum headlamp covers, when you stopped at a light no headlights!... what a trip. Then you guys would definitely the glass fuel bowl fuel filter...

 

 

Yeah, and we also attached "Brodie Knobs" to the steering wheel, so you could throw a neat, impressive one-handed Brody in loose gravel without the clumsy hand-over-hand motions.

 

They were also great for driving with your arm around your girl.  (But you had to put it on the left side of the wheel for that purpose.)

 

Ahhhh yes...there were also Fender Skirts, Appleton Spotights, Loud Mufflers, Curb Feelers, Lowering Blocks and Long Shackles, Wolf Whistles, Embroidered Dice on the Rear-View Mirror (that your girl knitted for you), Chrome Air Cleaners, Translucent Floor Shift Knobs (with a 4-Leaf Clover, a Naked Dame, or an 8-Ball), Rubberized Whitewall Tire Paint, and on and on!

 

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WAIT...I ALMOST FORGOT: The most popular automotive add-on in the 1950's were MOON HUBCAPS!  They were also the most frequently stolen wheel covers in automotive history.

 

I had a full set stolen from from my classy '42 Mercury Club Coupe, and I probably stole a few myself when a carload of us would go to strange neighborhoods at night looking for Moons to steal.