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On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 22:47, Jim Adney wrote: > > What I've heard is that the air tends to "pile up" there because it gets > "trapped" in front of the winshield. This creates a high pressure area at the > bottom of the windshield. > > Of course this would be completely different if the body of the car just came > straight back behind the hood/bonnet instead of rising suddenly upward in the > form of the windshield. > > I've been trying to remember what raindrops do on the windshield when driving > at speed. I know that above halfway, they clearly get pushed upwards, but I > seem to remember that in the bottommost area they tend to sit stationary, as if > there is not nearly so much airflow there, except at the sides, of course. > I have noticed that T-3's don't get many bugs on the windshield, as say my wife's Jeep Cherokee. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/