He and John in the blue 5 window also, this photo was taken on the 2015 All Deuce Run. John drove this very car to Peoria, it was red at the time. HRP
.........I guessed that the picture was taken at one of your All Deuce Runs, Danny. Ronnie isn't afraid to take his "32 on the long road trips. Sweet 5-window, great guy and lifetime hot-rodder.
The biggest mistake I made on my deuce sedan was to get rid of the vent hardware and bolt the lid shut. I wanted my a/c and heater up as far under the dash as far as I could get it so you wouldn’t see it . Kick myself in the ass every time it gets hot inside the car.
Granted that bolting the vent shut was a mistake, that was the one and only one you made on that car, I think it's one of the nivcest Deuce sedans on the Hamb. HRP
Thanks Danny! Although there’s nothing wrong with a beater like yours. And I mean that in a good way. I often wish I would have built mine as a beater.
When cruising out on I-90, in the South Dakota heat, whether its in my 47 Dodge or my 46 IHC firetruck, the simplicity of the cowl vent, is very much appreciated.
I really like cowl vents and opening windshields. I used to drive a 39 ford coe for hauling old cars home. One year in particular, the grasshoppers were really bad. The windshields would open really wide and the 2 cowl vents had no screens. The amount of grasshoppers inside the cab with me was shocking.... but a fun memory.
About 15 years ago, I bought a Cowl Vent Lid and Surrounding Trough from BROOKVILLE to replace one that had been welded shut and bondo ed over on a customers 3 Window, they supply the trough and about an inch of sheet metal past it .
I have always appreciated how effective a cowl vent is. I only disabled one in favor of a/c and the heat from the floor was the bad side effect.
I like vents,my Study's had some good working vents,my "J" not so much. My 28 roadster I run with windshield open at bottom about 1 in.
With my last Tudor, I cut out the welded shut cowl vent & welded in a good original I salvaged . Can't live with out it !
My "A"roadster has the gas tank removed and just a top from Brookville along with the rest of the body. Had I known of the availability of a cowl vent and attendant hardware, I would have gotten one for use in mine before body and paint were completed. My '40 Ford coupe has an operating cowl vent and an AC unit that right now needs a better valve to cut off the hot water from circulating through as a heater instead of cooling, as it reduces th cooling quite a bit. But I just leave it turned off and use the cowl vent and wind "wings" and it's comfortable to me. When I get around to it, I'm going to put an inline valve under the hood to shut of that hot water line, Just been otherwise occupied lately.
I've repurposed the fuel filler door on my 27 as a cowl vent. I have used a Citroen 2CV flap mechanism to open and close it. Keeping it as a vent has also made wiring a lot easier. Sent from my moto g(8) power using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Seeing the cowl vent wide open is part of the landscape of an old car as I sit in the driver's seat, just as important as looking over the long, pointy, rounded hood, or through a split windshield. It has it's functional purpose of course but it's quite ornamental as well. You can barely see the vent open on my 38 in the avatar. Plus it's cool to show kids or non car folk how people kept cool back then. Cowl vent open, Vent wings all the way out.. works pretty good even on a hot day. If I wear a white T-Shirt it's easy to see dead bugs on my chest as the vent wings are open and pointed directly at me.
Dave, My heater valve doesn't work like it should so I installed a regular in line valve to stop the water flow from entering the car, it works like a champ. HRP
It's not only the older vintage cars. I closed off my '57's inside vents when I added Vintage Air. One, because I had to for room, the other because I didn't think I needed it. On hindsight, I wished I had left that one intact. I also rubberized/closed up the screen under the (always open) outside cowl vent to help keep water out since I was no longer using the oem vents. I'm finding on a hot day, after a longer drive, I get what feels like hot air coming out from under the dash. My OT engine gives off a LOT of external heat, even though it runs comparatively cool internally. Case in point......my 2 1/2 car garage temps will go up 10 degrees in an hour after I park the car in it after a long drive. I recently checked the cowl vs the hood temps after an hour's drive, and discovered the cowl was actually 12 degrees hotter than the hood! So, one of my next projects is to redo the closed off screen so the cowl can vent. Hopefully, that will rid me of the radiating heat from the cowl, and actually improve my A/C performance. I don't know what A/C system you have, but Vintage Air Gen IV is a "blend" system, and the only time the hot water is shut off is when the A/C is set on MAX. In addition to the system's electronic shut off valve, I also added an additional gate valve to the heater inlet line so I could shut off the hot water entirely when I wanted.
Yes sir, on the All Deuce Run on the way home a wasp got sucked in and was buzzing around while I was truing to get over on the side of the interstate, just as I was coming to a stop I got nailed in the right knee cap. I also sucked in a June Bug but it was just a minor inconvenience. HRP