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914/4: 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 914/6: 70 71 72
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| Pat Garvey |
 Nov 14 2011, 07:55 PM
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Do I or don't I...........?  Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States  |
QUOTE(Jasfsmith @ Oct 1 2011, 07:18 AM)  QUOTE(Pat Garvey @ Sep 27 2011, 09:26 PM) QUOTE(Pat Garvey @ Sep 25 2011, 07:36 PM) QUOTE(Jeff Bowlsby @ Sep 22 2011, 02:05 PM) I find this particulary interesting, and think it works! I have the hogshair filters in my rear vents. Every year or so (when I DID smoke in the car, and the last was 1978) I would pull the vents & hogshair filters, wash them, dry them & replace them. Pat This is the filter (hogshair) and vent that I brought up. I've seen some 71's with the vent cap & no filter. Everything I've seen of 72's on had the hogshair as original. Are you SURE that it is hogshair and not gray matter from some human's body? <grin> With my initials (PIG), I am certain. Believe mine to be those a a distant uncle, though DNA testing would be needed to prove it. Gray matter is more prone to degredation, rendering it very smelly and not usable within several days. No, it's hogshair/boarshair. |
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| nathansnathan |
Nov 22 2011, 04:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 31-May 10 From: Laguna Beach, CA Member No.: 11,782 Region Association: None |
I was talking to a guy at the G&R swapmeet, NLA Six license plate, had a real early six, I asked him why he didn't have fresh air vents and he said really early cars didn't have them, that it would screw up the originality to put some in.
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| eric9144 |
Nov 22 2011, 04:28 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,734 Joined: 30-March 11 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 12,876 Region Association: Southern California 
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Early cars, 6 and 4, did not have the vents at the outsides of the dash face at all. They also had a center vent (additional defroster?) in the fascia between the dash and windscreen.
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| nathansnathan |
Nov 22 2011, 04:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 31-May 10 From: Laguna Beach, CA Member No.: 11,782 Region Association: None |
I think the vent in the dash is instead of the outer vents, for fresh air in.
I was talking about the plastic vent covers in the door jams. |
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| nathansnathan |
Nov 22 2011, 04:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 31-May 10 From: Laguna Beach, CA Member No.: 11,782 Region Association: None |
What I mean is, there may be a reason there are no covers in there?
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads/post-5727-1316653363.jpg) |
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| 1970 Neun vierzehn |
Nov 23 2011, 08:50 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,199 Joined: 16-March 06 From: cincinnati, ohio Member No.: 5,727 |
QUOTE(nathansnathan @ Nov 22 2011, 02:47 PM) What I mean is, there may be a reason there are no covers in there? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads/post-5727-1316653363.jpg) OK, pure conjecture on my part.......1970 & early '71s had empty holes (there's a redundant statement). Later 914s had the black plastic grilles inserted into the opening because.... A) little kids were putting pennies and pebbles into the openings in an effort to be be "cute" (rattle,rattle,rattle) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) B) the factory decided that the vent holes looked cheap and unfinished and added the little grille (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) C)early in the 914s' existence, no one really knew what those holes in the door jambs were for, so the German engineers spec'd those little black plastic grilles to substantiate the theory that those holes were really "venting" something and therefore needed "filters" installed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) Any other theories (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Paul |
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| davep |
Nov 24 2011, 07:04 PM
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914 Historian Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,143 Joined: 13-October 03 From: Burford, ON, N0E 1A0 Member No.: 1,244 Region Association: Canada  |
To keep nasty insects out. Did YOU want a wasp nest in the system?
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