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68shortstep · 08-13-2008, 05:43 PM

What can you say, besides: "COOOOOLLLLL"

(Sorry - somebody had to do it)

My uncle has a 1941 Packard for real woodie wagon with an old style automotive swamp cooler that hangs in the passenger front window. Looks like an old electrolux vacuum cleaner hanging on the window, outside the car. I'll see if I can find a picture, somewhere.

Puts out amazingly cold air at about 45 MPH & over. At a stop light you get absolutely nothing, though. Gotta be moving pretty good for the air flow to push through it, & be chilled by evaporation.

By the way, it gets about 200 miles per gallon, and the fuel for it is free at almost all gas stations ........... the swamp cooler --- not the Packard.

edit: here's its' twin brother on ebay right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VINTA...Z1218664946390

08-13-2008, 05:43 PM	#5
68shortstep Looks good at 20-ft ..... Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mtn Home, AR Posts: 707	Re: AC alternative??? What can you say, besides: *"COOOOOLLLLL"* (Sorry - somebody had to do it) My uncle has a 1941 Packard for real woodie wagon with an old style automotive swamp cooler that hangs in the passenger front window. Looks like an old electrolux vacuum cleaner hanging on the window, outside the car. I'll see if I can find a picture, somewhere. Puts out amazingly cold air at about 45 MPH & over. At a stop light you get absolutely nothing, though. Gotta be moving pretty good for the air flow to push through it, & be chilled by evaporation. By the way, it gets about 200 miles per gallon, and the fuel for it is free at almost all gas stations ........... the swamp cooler --- not the Packard. edit: here's its' twin brother on ebay right now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VINTA...Z1218664946390 Last edited by 68shortstep; 08-13-2008 at 05:50 PM. Reason: add photo