give your tips for keeping cool without A/C
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From: central FL, near the beach.
give your tips for keeping cool without A/C
for t-tops, while i'm sure everybody takes 2 off on cloudy days,
for hot sun, take only the right off. driver gets the shade and lots of airflow.
your tip?
for hot sun, take only the right off. driver gets the shade and lots of airflow.
your tip?
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Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (Matt Gruber)
During the hot summer months I plan my cruising for early mornings and late afternoons/early evenings with extended stops and eating during peak sun hours. Cruisin' tree canoped roads is also nice during the middle of the day.
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Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (Matt Gruber)
for t-tops, while i'm sure everybody takes 2 off on cloudy days,
for hot sun, take only the right off. driver gets the shade and lots of airflow.
your tip?
for hot sun, take only the right off. driver gets the shade and lots of airflow.
your tip?
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From: central FL, near the beach.
Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (Ken Lally)
i know you are only joking, but when i lived in NJ i actually thought that was cooler :nonod:
wasn't until i moved to FL that i learned to put it up and tie open the rear window :hurray:
wasn't until i moved to FL that i learned to put it up and tie open the rear window :hurray:
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From: Frisco TX
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Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (goofygrin)
With a 68 bigblock convertible, I must have the top down. I always wear a hat and try to remember to use sunscreen and I keep a towel and a bottle of water in the car. As i explained to my wife, it is most important to LOOK cool :cool: even if you are sweating your butt off! :lol:
also, I have noticed that if the engine temps are around 185 I get much less heat inside the cabin than if the engine temp climbs to 210.
[Modified by PRND21, 4:12 PM 5/24/2004]
also, I have noticed that if the engine temps are around 185 I get much less heat inside the cabin than if the engine temp climbs to 210.
[Modified by PRND21, 4:12 PM 5/24/2004]
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Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (bmar)
My tip is never drive a car with A/C, and have a spare shirt.
Seriously, I have never used A/C (except when driving with my wife) and have driven 7 years in S. Louisiana and 9 years in Dallas. I can drive in 5 o'clock traffic home at 105* outside and not have a bead of sweat on my head when I pull into the driveway. Now, my shirt is damp from the vinyl seats, but it's not too bad. I believe that my body has adjusted to my habits.
Oh, yeah, a hat is a must for my bald head.
Seriously, I have never used A/C (except when driving with my wife) and have driven 7 years in S. Louisiana and 9 years in Dallas. I can drive in 5 o'clock traffic home at 105* outside and not have a bead of sweat on my head when I pull into the driveway. Now, my shirt is damp from the vinyl seats, but it's not too bad. I believe that my body has adjusted to my habits.
Oh, yeah, a hat is a must for my bald head.
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Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (Matt Gruber)
Install block valve on the heater hose to the little nuclear reactor, aka heater core. :smash: Chas
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Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (Matt Gruber)
I bought some of those neck bands filled with that water absorbent poly fill.
Soak them is a cooler full of ice water for awhile to charge them up and then I wrap it around my neck and tie it inside my fire suit. Fit's under my Simpson neck brace and helmet. It keeps me cool and clear headed sitting forever in the run lanes waiting to go:)
I haven't had A/C for years so on my long trips I do the same thing. Cycling them through the cold ice water periodically. It's the next best thing to a full cool suite.
Soak them is a cooler full of ice water for awhile to charge them up and then I wrap it around my neck and tie it inside my fire suit. Fit's under my Simpson neck brace and helmet. It keeps me cool and clear headed sitting forever in the run lanes waiting to go:)
I haven't had A/C for years so on my long trips I do the same thing. Cycling them through the cold ice water periodically. It's the next best thing to a full cool suite.
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Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (Sharky Guam)
Go skimmy dipping in the pool (pool is never over 80* in NH) ....
then drive naked and wet with the windows open and rear window removed.
Just don't get pulled over. :crazy:
then drive naked and wet with the windows open and rear window removed.
Just don't get pulled over. :crazy:
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From: Deltona (son of Deland and DAYTONA) FL
Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (Matt Gruber)
you could always get a couple of those fans they used to have on school buses and bolt them to the dash :jester
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Re: give your tips for keeping cool without A/C (Matt Gruber)
I used to drive my 67 firebird in about 110 degrees weather home from work i would get a big cup of ice and chew it up on the drive home it actually kept me from dying