To: CedarDave
Things boomers know.
For the younger members, those bags hanging from the car are for your drinking water, the canvas bags allowed evaporation which cooled the water some.
18 posted on
07/05/2023 12:37:53 PM PDT by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
To: ansel12
Those things were life savers out on the ranch growing up. Actually worked pretty well even if the water was not exactly rocky mountain spring water tasty
37 posted on
07/05/2023 1:16:39 PM PDT by
rdcbn1
To: ansel12; All
I would hang my Desert water bag (canvas) in front of my radiator (’65 Plymouth Fury III) for desert road trips (Vegas, etc.)...thought it kept the car cooler too!
49 posted on
07/05/2023 1:55:28 PM PDT by
Drago
To: ansel12
Remember it well is as the window mounted swamp cooler on pops 1954 Buick in crossing Texas to California trip.
53 posted on
07/05/2023 2:15:58 PM PDT by
Vaduz
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