So... last week it got colder, and I was running around top down on Sunny days in the 40's.
First off, my new wooly hat is very nice.
The heater in the Mustang is also excellent.
The air flow in the car doesn't bother my head or face, but it comes between the seats pretty hard, and makes the back of my right arm really cold. No such problem with the left arm, though.
With that in mind, I'm planning a windblocker to fill the gap between the seats. It's going to be window screen, like the one I used in the Miata. To make it work for me, it has to be easily removed, so I can put my son in the back seat. I don't need it to work with him
in the car, as I'm not going to freeze him out on those chilly days!
Here's a (poorly
MSpaint-ed) diagram of what I'm thinking of:
The
black squares will be rip-stop nylon, canvas, or some other fairly tough material, hung from the posts for the headrests. The
yellow rectangles will be velcro, used to hold the windscreen such that I can pull it off to fold the seats. The
red line will be webbing, to give the top of it some strength and the blue lines are the outlines of the mesh panel, though this picture doesn't really show where the bottom of it will be. It will wrap around the transmission hump, and velcro to the carpet on the sides, shown roughly by the white rectangle.
By making it triangular, it will hang down entirely behind the driver's seat when I unhook it from the passenger side, which
may help keep my 3-year-old from destroying it!
Today I got the supplies for my Mustang windblocker project!
1" wide Velcro from Wally-Mart. $5. I still need to see if the hook side will grip on to the Mustang's carpet. ...it worked before in my Miata.
1.5" wide black nylon webbing from REI. $.30/foot. Looks like a seat belt, just a bit narrower. I will be using it along all the edges of the mesh, to give me something strong to sew the Velcro to and to give the mesh some strength.
36" wide fiberglass window screen from Home Depot. 84 inches long, $12
So, I have less than $25 in this project, all I need now is something to hang the whole thing from the headrests with.
Any suggestions?