Re: Car seats   
     By: Mike Powell to Jim Haight on Tue Jan 24 2017 06:06 pm   
      
    >> Why is it that the oldest cars used   
    >>to blast heat at your feet but nobody can do this anymore?   
      
    MP> I had a 1967 Rambler that had the best car heater of any car I have ever   
    MP> had, and all the cars I have had have been at least 13 years newer than   
    MP> that one.    
      
    MP> Also, I can remember in that car (and other older ones I rode in), you   
    MP> rarely needed the defrost/defog. You could open the wing vents and point   
    MP> them at the front window. Sometimes even cracking the windows did the   
    MP> trick. You can't hardly sit in a new car anymore when it is just a little   
    MP> cold or humid without the windows immediately fogging up.   
      
   I had a friend in high school who had a Rambler with a GM 327 in it (towing   
   package?), push button automatic etc. He had dual thrush mufflers on it and   
   rejetted the 4bbl. We called it the scrambler. I think he got it used for   
   $30.00 from someone and spent more on the exhaust etc. It was quite the   
   sleeper. I remember someone trying to pass him on the right and he manually hit   
   a lower gear on the dash and the car sounded like thunder. Scared the hell out   
   of people when they heard it.     
      
   Yeah the defrost crap is overkill. Cars are programmed to slip on your AC to   
   defrost now, your feet are cold and there are  no wing vents to flick the   
   cigarette ashes anymore. But... I gave up smoking a long time ago :)   
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