Another vote for wind wings. I still think they are a good idea. I like a good breeze blowing over me on a hot day.
Are you guys talking about the little triangles in front of the front windows,
or the rear ones like
http://www.pro-badge.org.uk/lard/images/GT6/sidec2.jpg
Are they both called quarter lights?
We had the rear ones in our tiny Datsun B210 and then in our 2-door Sentras in the 80s.
gigi your first picture.
We called them bat wings. My last truck had them.
Tell your truck to be glad that **HD **didn’t call it '15 years young."
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That would be called an exaggeration on my part, or a bit of humor, hence the Mad Men reference.
But older car interiors were designed for smokers. There might be more ashtrys in a 50’s auto than there are cup holders now. A big one in the front dash board, another on the back of the front seat, small ones in all the door handles. Not everyone drinks coffee now either, but you find cup holders in almost all new cars sold today.
See them refered to as cigarette windows here:
http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1374
And no, I do not and never have smoked.
I drive an older one than that.
just fyi… My 62 Chevy has 2 wing windows, 3 ash trays, and came with NO seatbelts. I’m told seatbelts weren’t even an option then, but cigarette lighters and ashtrays were standard eq.
Front seat belts were a $22 option, add the back seats for another $24. Seat belts were an option on all GM vehicles beginning with the 1955 model year through the 1963 model year. They were required in passenger cars in the US since 1964. Seat belt anchors were required since the 1962 model year for for 2 front seat passengers, you will find them under your car.
It’s not that your 1995 truck is so old. It’s that it’s a 30-year old design. The (non Super Duty) F-Series from 1979-1996 is essentially the same cab and bed, with two redesigns to the dashboard and front end in 1987 and 1992.
In 1979, air conditioning was still quite optional, especially on trucks, because in those days they were used much more as work vehicles than personal transportation.
Whatever their function, they definitely tended to leak. A friend of mine drove a '66 Dodge Dart sedan (in the mid 90s). The wing window on the passenger door leaked whenever it rained, creating a wonderful mildewy smell in the rug that could never be masked.
I’m 54 and had never heard the term “quarter lights” before opening this thread. I’m going to assume it’s a Britishism unless some fellow 'Merkins tell me otherwise.
/me raises hand, but I’m in the industry. I say “decklid” instead of “trunk,” and “dash panel” instead of “firewall.”
Whatever they’re called–I knew them as wing windows–Consumer Reports claimed they dragged a lot of air heavily polluted by car exhaust. But I do think it was the ubiquity of air conditioning that did them in.