Airtight old cars

[LVSteve]

No worries about cracking a window when closing my doors.

That takes me back to my UK days. I drove a van variant for work occasionally. It was a slow, noisy draught with wheels attached. Fortunately, the one I had to drive didn't actually leak in the rain.

 

[Beemerguy53]

My Ford, drops the window about 1/4" when you pull the door handle. It stays down until you close the door and then it pops up into place. In so many ways, the car is smarter than I am.

One of my cars is a 2018 BMW M2 coupe...the windows do the same thing. My daily driver, a 2013 VW Golf R, is a 2-door sedan (the doors have window frames), and I can definitely tell if the sunroof is tilted up or a window is a little open when I close the doors.

 

[GypsmJim]

My 1980 Pontiac Coupe (I still own it) needs a window cracked in order to close a door. Back in the day I don't remember how the windows worked in my 1968 VW Beetle. What I DO remember is the last time I had to change a flat, when I put the factory jack on it the running board and fenders went up, but the tire didn't. I had to call Dad with an axle jack.

Fun car to entertain a girlie in the back seat, but not built for longevity.

 

[venomballistics]

Old trucker's joke: What's the difference between a Freightliner and a Jehova's Witness? You can close the door on a Jehova's Witness.

New truckers joke ...
How can you tell the lot is level...
The prime one driver is drooling out both sides of his mouth

 

[SMSgt]

My Ford, drops the window about 1/4" when you pull the door handle. It stays down until you close the door and then it pops up into place. In so many ways, the car is smarter than I am.

No, the Ford just thinks you're too lazy to drop the window on your own.

 

[MelvinWalker]

Old trucker's joke: What's the difference between a Freightliner and a Jehova's Witness? You can close the door on a Jehova's Witness.

Probably why they were always nicknamed "Freightshaker"

 

[DWalt]

I had a 62 Corvair and a 67 Beetle. I don't remember anything being airtight about them. I thought both were good cars at the time. Aside from being underpowered and oil burning, I really liked the Corvair. At the time, my main use for it was driving to and returning home from work, about four miles round trip per day. Good memories.

 

[Kinman]

They did everything slowly!

We had have a grade going West on 1-90 out of town that is quite steep. My '62 Westfalia Van was reduced to 25mph in 2nd gear to pull the hill, basically just me and my girlfriend. She drove it to college daily for nearly a year, even after we broke up I would stop by and check the oil and valve adjustments every other oil change. Someone along the way decided to paint it a horrible shade of brown, I had a pinstriper buddy of mine paint "Turd on the Run" on the engine cover. Someone tail ended her totaling the bus which fortunately was still on my insurance, she ended up with a much nicer free heat machine. To get around in those old V.W. vans you needed to have a crew, one to scrape the windshield in front, one to keep your side windows clear, someone to roll a smoke, etc.

 

[arjay]

That long drag up to the Eisenhower tunnel at 30mph on the way skiing with all of our gear on and the copilot scraping the ice off of the inside of the windshield. Good times