Na, they all come with this new thing called aircon instead, sounds like sales sprook to me though.

If someone offers you $20K for an old Kingswood ute, sell it. If they go down to $10K or less, make sure you don't fill the tank for them.

Imax1 said..
I had , not that long ago , an old Valiant , it had a 200 x200 closable flap door , either side at feet to let moving wind in .
Fantastic . Half open windows , kinda like air conditioning.
Worked great. No moving parts , no cfcs.

Can't do that now , oh no , someone will sue for some reason

Now I remember.


What we probably don't remember is the quality of the pre-emissions air that came through those boxes when following traffic. The old classics are good to see about but they all seem a bit smoky and on the nose now. What's the choice for the restorers. Put in a modern IC motor or go battery powered? A big job either way. Supply might exceed demand for old classics shortly. Take Formula's advice..

I was having this conversation a few months ago- quarter windows used to be standard. My 96 Hilux has quarter windows- but in general the quarter window is almost extinct.

Clarence

That's why modern cars don't come with vinyl seats to much emission of gas when hot .
By law that had to be changed but car manufacturers didn't say that they sold it all as free upgrades to cloth seats.

Imax1 said..
I had , not that long ago , an old Valiant , it had a 200 x200 closable flap door , either side at feet to let moving wind in .
Fantastic . Half open windows , kinda like air conditioning.
Worked great. No moving parts , no cfcs.

Can't do that now , oh no , someone will sue for some reason

This is mine, quarter windows and those under dash flap doors Imax, works fine .

lotofwind said..
quarter glass window ??????????????? lol
windows you have to wind up, round and round, with little handles ?????? lol Need a mechanical "key" to open????? lol
Thank god the olden day flintstone car days, with no Bluetooth, lane assist, or reverse cameras, are gone.

Sadly, a crap driver can almost nuetralise all that modern tech. A mate who drives like an idiot tells me his car is so great and has all these features. I got a lift with him once from the central coast back to Sydney and in light rain he was sitting only 2 car lengths behind another car at 110kmh when one left lane was completely empty.

I wonder when they are going to bring in an idiot detector? I guess there should already be that feature, but his car didn't have it. There should be some warning tone telling him he is too close to the car in front at that speed, which is sad, as a decent driver should already know that. (Sadly I know that his car has assisted braking and no doubt a gazillion airbags, so when he does run up the back of another car, at least it won't be as hard.)

Lotofwind you are going to have a problem if you ever get old. You aren't going to be able to tell about the awesome music or cars of your generation, because you missed out. Once people get tired of you blaming everything on the previous generation, what are you going to have to say?

Marsbars said..

lotofwind said..
quarter glass window ??????????????? lol
windows you have to wind up, round and round, with little handles ?????? lol Need a mechanical "key" to open????? lol
Thank god the olden day flintstone car days, with no Bluetooth, lane assist, or reverse cameras, are gone.

So much easier to drive and yet passing rates for a drivers licence are falling go figure????

And thats in autos. Not many people going for manual licences , Too hard , too tired ?

lotofwind said..

Marsbars said..
So much easier to drive and yet passing rates for a drivers licence are falling go figure????

That's because they actually test people now, not just give it to you at the police station like they did in the old days.
They did an experiment a few years ago where they gave 100 elderly 50 to 60 year olds the current written driving test, only 17 past it. lol.
Once people get over 50 they should have to pass a yearly driving test to prove they are still fit to be behind the wheel of a car.
Some of the old people you see trying to park their car at the supermarket is just plain scary......and their on the highway with us doing 100 k's, when they cant even park without someone guiding them.

You are lucky they don't have spelling or grammar included in the test

lotofwind said..
quarter glass window ??????????????? lol
windows you have to wind up, round and round, with little handles ?????? lol Need a mechanical "key" to open????? lol
Thank god the olden day flintstone car days, with no Bluetooth, lane assist, or reverse cameras, are gone.

Shows how young you are.....NB Many of the driverless car drivers are gone at that level (and spectacular fails!)

Mark _australia said..
i reckon last was he Troopie about 4yrs ago. None since then...?

Then again, nicephotog - why are you asking? Strange question.... You seem to make nonsensical posts often. Are you a chatbot regurgitating a HK ute ad?

How much do you want for the HK ute?

[ ( The pictured 67 HK at the beginning of the thread )

No it is not for sale !!!

- it is a relatives car - it was willed to him and his wife from mums dad - the first time i rode in it i t was 2 years old ]

If it ever does get sold it will be to a collector by Auction !
Until then it's in use , as both owners were/are farmers.

lotofwind said..
Was talking about all the other windows that you have to take your hands off the wheel(dangerous) to wind up.

Taking your hands off the wheel is dangerous? What stuffed up lesson taught you that? I hope that was just you trying to be humorous.

Anything like that becomes a secondary priority to driving. You don't just decide to wind the windows up or down as you are heading into a blind corner at night. The same way as you don't do the same thing with electric windows.

You can certainly drive without both hands on the wheel, but you don't do it at stupid times.

I think its worse now. People are so obsessed with their phones and get bored so they start checking things on their phone. Its not just a quick glance down now to check what the radio station is, its a full-on concentration on the topic, and then trying to reply back on a stupid keyboard on the screen.

I think car audio design has gone backwards. You need to use touch displays a lot now. Which makes no sense as a decent design could allow you to do a lot of things without needing to look at a screen.

In some ways the old school car controls were better.

lotofwind said..
Oh no.... an anonymous poster on the interweb thinks I might be ignorant lol

No I wasn't talking about the little playschool triangle window that you have to manually push open, lol
Was talking about all the other windows that you have to take your hands off the wheel(dangerous) to wind up.
Lucky now that no cars are made like that anymore. Was in an old school car the other day, would have been built way back in the late 90's, made me laugh at the little crank handle to open the window. ha ha haaa

Sorry lets go back to the original topic thread then, which is quarter windows

Your contribution on that was:

"quarter glass window ??????????????? lol"

Wow. Insightful AF.

quarter glass windows, no probably not.

But you can still be a Land Rover defender, with wind out front flaps.
Great for that 'bugs in your teeth' look.

^^I love you except for when u ask me to dress like your mum

Don't get why some are being soooo protective of the old fashioned little tringle windows ??
What was so good about them over todays full window ?? Was it because there was no AC in cars, wasn't invented back then ???

Some people seem to see their quarter glass as 3/4 empty instead of a quarter full.