'New' Car Part

[Elton]

Got a right result from a guy on eBay.

 

 

It's the mechanism to wind the front windscreen open on my Prefect. I absolutely loved driving it last year with the windscreen up, but had to wedge it open.

 

£25 well spent, I reckon

 

Now that Vauxhall seem to have reintroduced suicide doors, I wonder if we'll see a return to opening windscreens?

[ColinW]

The most amusing feature I've ever had on a car were the vacuum operated windscreen wipers on my 1959 100E Anglia. They were great, they went like crazy when you were stationary and then all but stopped on the slightest hill, very exciting on a wet motorway!

Their piece de resistance was when they went out of sync, something that happened quite often, and the left hand wiper grabbed the right hand one and threw it off the car onto the pavement.

[Rusty]

It's the mechanism to wind the front windscreen open on my Prefect. I absolutely loved driving it last year with the windscreen up, but had to wedge it open.

Are you sure Elton, it can't be a de-mister. There's no heating elements, warning light, complex circuitry or a potential huge bill to fix it

 

I’d love to see trafficators make a comeback on new cars, can you imaging what the health & safety police would say about that?

[chesters1]

one of my landrovers had individual wipers each having a motor ,they rarely worked when you really needed them but they had a knurled knob on the inside so you could move them manually ,you think using a phone is bad try driving along twisting a knob to see out of windows with just as much mist on the inside than out

Edited January 29, 2011 by chesters1

[Elton]

I think mine had a vacuum windscreen wiper, originally. It now has this really daft thing about 3" long which runs on electric. I think there's some law that if the windscreen opens, you don't need wipers.

[Elton]

I fitted that part yesterday. As the car originally had no seatbelts, I shudder to think how many people must have impaled themselves on these over the years! It points out right from the centre of the dash.