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We had a 1966 Chevrolet Malibu station wagon and a 1966 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 4 door hardtop. It is the same.
I had a 66 Belair sedan and the windows went all the way down as well as having front vent windows. Why did they do away with those?
As for later models...my 93 D body Caddy has the afore mentioned windows that go 1/2 way down as well as having a useless immovable pane in the same locale. If the useless pane of glass wasn't there, the window would go all the way down. I don't ride back there so I don't care, I open it for air circulation.
If the back windows in anything Ive ever owned that were able to go all the way down, were all the way down the air moving made such a loud "bumping" noise I couldn't stand it.
If the back windows in anything Ive ever owned that were able to go all the way down, were all the way down the air moving made such a loud "bumping" noise I couldn't stand it.
I once had a 1984 Buick Skyhawk coupe. The rear windows flipped outward like fish gills. This really helped lower the thumping noise. Lower front windows a bit, pop open back windows, and cruise along.
I had a 66 Belair sedan and the windows went all the way down as well as having front vent windows. Why did they do away with those? ...
Those front vents were killers (head trauma). I recall once, when I was a young newspaper reporter, going to the scene of a fatal accident in which there was very little damage to the car, but the driver's head had hit the vent frame. Thankfully they've done away with those.
I could be mistaken, but I think some of those rear windows were limited in travel for safety reasons too. "Back in the day" we didn't have seat belts nor child restraint seats. In an accident passengers just flew around inside the car or out of it. When I was 11 or 12, my sister and I were riding in the back seat of a '47 Ford 2-door when my brother t-boned a car at a rural intersection. I was thrown out. First thing I remember was picking myself up from the middle of the intersection and running to the nearest neighbor for help. (Thankfully, no one was hurt seriously.)
Look at the door outline and look where the rear wheelwell goes. Cars now days are just too short to have a full sized rear door with the wheel well behind it. Therefore, the window can't possibly be lowered. The rear windows in my quad cab Ram go down all the way which is nice but it has squared off rear doors allowing the window to go completely down.
I've noticed that many 4 door cars have rear door windows that don't go all the way down anymore. Why? At one time all the cars door windows went all the way down. My 2003 Malibu rear windows barely went below 1/2 way down. My 2015 Elantra rear windows goes almost all the way down with a small piece still sticking up. What changed that prevents the rear window from going all the way down like the front windows?
I think it's that the rear wheel area prevents rolling down all the way. Large cars may not have this issue...I don't know. I buy smaller cars, so the cab length is sort of short, particularly the back seat.
If the back windows in anything Ive ever owned that were able to go all the way down, were all the way down the air moving made such a loud "bumping" noise I couldn't stand it.
Didn't it take them long enough to make the sliding door windows actually roll.down? How hard was it?
It sure did. It wasn't hard, but they had to fatten up the vans to make space for them.
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