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July 29, 2003
Classic Idea: Super Jet Air Scoop
An after-market product for cars without air conditioning, it would replicate the highly effective triangle wing-windows that old cars used to have.
It would be a piece of clear plastic that you'd put in the window that scooped the air at you for extra cooling. Would be sold at gas stations or given away with advertising logos on them so that when you looked out the window you'd see "ARCO" or whatever. Would appeal to the ever-growing market of working class/working poor people with crappy beaters, and now more and more of those old beaters have broken air conditioning and no wing windows. Sell for not too much. Liability issue, however, as we'd have to make sure they wouldn't fall out of the window and break someone's windshield behind you.
My mom's boyfriend actually made me a prototype of one of these which I used on a trip to California a few years ago. The problem was it was made of metal, and it was kind of scary because it had really sharp edges and I kept having visions of what would happen if it flew through the air and hit the person in the car behind me. SLICE-OH! Is what I figured. Right through the windshield and into the face. So I took it off. But it worked pretty well for cooling me off.
Those old wing windows worked great. Supposedly they stopped making cars with those wing windows because they made cars easier to break into, but I suspect darker motives.
Posted by mary at July 29, 2003 4:48 PM
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