![]() ![]() On my saturns the dash provided all the heat one would want during the summer. I’ll prevent at the cost of being ugly.ītw, Paul is right about vertical windshields. Avoid letting the heat enter your vehicle or having to pay to remove it. I drive pretty cool (not cool looking) in the nations air conditioning capital. On the other article on dark cars I put a picture of my truck with it’s summer garb. You have the option of light colors and tinted windows that work for your car. In a home a light roof, shade trees, good insulation, good attic ventilation, and tinted/properly shuttered windows all work to prevent heat entering your home. If you have the “cab forward/ big dash type car, the dash becomes a heat sink and you have to remove that heat with AC. All else being equal the dark car is hotter than the light colored car. Dark colors absorb the heat that light colors reflect. Insulation slows heat transfer it doesn’t stop it. ![]() I finally figured out he had re-roofed his home (darker) and added about a ton of heat load to his home. The next summer he called me back and told me it wasn’t working as well. I would like to take a stab at answering your question. There is a price for riding comfortably.īetween careers in the Navy and Teaching I learned air conditioning and still work with it. Maybe the Continental association was what this Comet tried to cash in on then again, by that time most Conti’s had air conditioning. And black was a popular color for the Contis. The grille has a distinct resemblance to that of the ’64 Continental–no harm in that. There’s about three inches less shoulder room inside versus the Fairlane/Meteor, so I’m just thankful my father wasn’t enticed by one of these of course, if he had been, it would have been the base 202 instead of the Caliente. Despite having the same basic platform and dimensions of the original 1960 Comet, it’s trying hard to look even more like a genuine mid-size car, especially after the failure and rapid disappearance of the truly mid-size Meteor.Īlthough its wheelbase is a fairly generous 114″, this Comet shares the Falcon’s narrow body. It’s a rather awkward name, given how back then most Americans didn’t have a clue as to its proper pronounciaton.īut then, this is a somewhat awkward car. Although the name is most often associated with the hardtop coupe or convertible, obviously there also was a sedan. The Caliente was a new top-level model in the 1964 Comet lineup. Needless to say, they acquitted themselves quite well and, as a kid, certainly raised my awareness of the Caliente–even in white–as a hot car, even if I didn’t know what “caliente” meant. In 1964, Mercury took the plunge into factory-supported drag racing with the 427-powered A/FX Caliente, which was analogous to the 1964 Fairlane Thunderbolts. There’s no way to know what’s under the hood it could be anything, from the base 170 cu. Sure enough no sign of A/C in here –although this interior does sport a T-handle Husrt shifter for the three-speed manual transmission. Did folks really like torturing themselves that much? This potential torture chamber reminds me all too much of our black 1962 Fairlane, which in 1965 was finally confiscated by the Iowa Child Protective Services, thus forcing my father to buy a sand-colored ’65 Coronet. (first posted ) Why did folks buy black cars in the pre-air conditioning era? Surely they must have understood the basic physics involved as to how much hotter a black car gets than one in a lighter color. ![]()
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