Don'tcha' wish they'd just STOP 'Improving' things?

[Peter 315]

Long ago - riding my motorcycle. Had a bee fly up the sleeve of my jacket. Try this - slow the motorcycle down - whack the arm where the bee is stinging you - try to maintain some degree of control over the motorcycle. Learned quickly - clamp the cuff of your jacket down tight and pull your gloves up over the jacket cuff.

Fortunately - no traffic - I only got stung twice - able to stop the cycle and not end up in the ditch.

I've had bugs fly into my open face helmet also. When I bought the 2018 BMW - bought a full face helmet.

Now, this is what I call "improving" things.

The joys of the open road with the wind blowing in your face............:laughing:

 

[Jstpssng]

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I've had the "Bee fly into the helmet" scenario. Even worse though was last summer. I was on my way home from my mother's house driving up a busy highway when I felt a tick crawling up my leg. I've picked thousands of ticks off me and my dogs over the years, but feeling him walking up my leg was too much. I managed to pinch him into my jeans until I found a place to get off the road and finish the job.

 

[ovrszd]

We called them wing windows also.

Smokers loved them. They could "crack the wing open" and all the smoke would get sucked out.

Yep...

 

[ovrszd]

Now you have me wondering what the crank on the dash was for. Looking at the pictures I took before they took the KB5, it doesn't appear that it does have the cowl vent. Could it be that either or both trucks also had crankout windows?



Actually, it was the passengers who loved that... along with the fact that we were travelling with considerate smokers.

I think there were some made with a crank. I just never saw one.

 

[ovrszd]

OUr neighbors bought one of these new. I don't recall every knowing what this was called? The center section of the rear window electrically raised and lowered.

 

[oosik]

Ticks are no problem. They will walk around for hours - looking for the "perfect" spot. Just remember when you get home - you have a tick on you or in your clothes - somewhere.

 

[bunyip]

I don't recall a specific name for the fold out vents by the feet.

The tilt windows as DI called them, I know as "wing windows".

Here they were called 'quarter vents'

 

[Diggin It]

We had a neighbor with a Monterey. Weird couple. Always reminded me of Boris & Natasha from the Bullwinkle Show.

 

[ovrszd]

Here they were called 'quarter vents'

The wing windows or the feet vents?

 

[ovrszd]

1963 (above) and 1964 Mercury Monterey with the Breezeway electric window.

Thanks for clarity. I don't recall ever hearing that. Breezeway electric window. Awesome!!!! Thanks!!!!