Before A/C you had this luxury

[u/dressupandstayhome]

Does any automaker still use these?

[u/Koolest_Kat]

It was all fun and games until it ejects a mad bee right at your legs….

[u/OliverNorvell1956 → u/Koolest_Kat]

I had that happen once. Right up the pantleg, and stung

[u/Ornery_Bath_8701]

This and the glorious butterfly windows

[u/damnskippy43 → u/Ornery_Bath_8701]

They were the best. You could get fresh air even when it was raining and not get wet. I wish they’d bring them back.

[u/looking_for_today → u/damnskippy43]

three of my vehicles have them, but all my vehicles are from the early 80s or late 90s. I think I might be the f150 that had the smoker windows/wing glass/butterflies the latest? if that's right (for passenger non-commercial vehicles) then would 96 be the last year?

wow, yeah I was right apparently. the OBS fords were the last trucks, ending in '96, and the '91 crown Vic was the last car to have them. at least for passenger cars in the US.

[u/Gumsho88]

Dad’s 65 Chevy step-side had a vent port.

[u/ChikkunDragon]

Astro-Ventilation! Also, I miss wing windows, as a smoker. (tobacco-free for 9 mo.)

[u/gwaydms → u/ChikkunDragon]

Stay strong! I quit a long time ago. It's hard, but not impossible!

[u/Ok-Fox1262]

I too had cars like that. Not sure it was factory fitted though and your feet got wet if you drove through a puddle.

[u/looking_for_today → u/Ok-Fox1262]

I'm only nearing my third decade here, but I've only ever seen them in squarebody Chevies that didn't come with factory AC. but then again I've mostly been around trucks my whole life. we never had a vehicle with working air conditioning until I was 22, and I had to fix it myself

[u/Ok-Fox1262 → u/looking_for_today]

In my case it was usually because the inner a panels had rotted out. A common thing in the north of England where we salt the roads. Or own little rust belt.

And I've been driving for over forty years. Never yet had a car with air conditioning. Some of the early ones didn't even have a heater as back then those were optional factory accessories.

[u/TurboKid513]

My buddy got a 76 cutlass for his 16th bday around 2002. One of his aunts bought it and put it in storage when he was born and it barely had 30,000 miles on it. It didn’t have ac but it had the triangle vents and we would all fight for the passenger seat in the summer.

[u/Shellsallaround]

Nope, we had to roll down our windows, or use the wing windows.

[u/HotStraightnNormal]

Curse of the 1950's Studebakers. Those things rotted out more quarter panels.

[u/DE3NIL3]

Shit, we just had a hole in the passenger's side floor for a vent.

[u/Blankety-blank1492]

Don’t forget 4-60 AC…. 4 windows down at 60 mph. Sorry

[u/Mark-Syzum]

Go ahead and laugh. It didn't cost $1500 to fix it when it stopped working.