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AutoPuzzles Today => Features, Stories and Photos => Featured Imagery => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on June 14, 2011, 05:13:24 AM
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AKA 'portholes', as seen on Buick's (and, as you'll see here) quite a few other cars. In their purest form, a means of letting air move through an otherwise solid panel. Over time, they became stylized representations of 'real' ventiports. This photo collection is open to all who wish to join in. However, please don't include contemporary automobiles, especially those with stick-on portholes from the discount auto parts store. Old customs, where the builder used real metal parts, and in many case, cut holes in the fenders to mount them, are A-OK.
Here is a selection to get us started. As you will see, some of these have previously been puzzle subject cars right here at AutoPuzzles. Enjoy! :D
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As you will see, some of these have previously been puzzle subject cars right here at AutoPuzzles. Enjoy! :D
...and a lot seem to be puzzles to me, as I think I didn't know them at all!
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Easily found by entering "porthole" in the search box. :)
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Packard's own, in the rear fender.
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Lil Tom's Plymouth, who wanted to be a Buick.
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According to one source, ventiports on the side of the cars were eventually discontinued, because:
"a california high-school principal complained that some of his male students used those on his Buick to relieve themselves"
(David Gartman in: Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design)
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Yes, I'm sure that's what happened
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Portholes on a TR in Paris.
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To let the tinworms out! :D
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:)
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Only on this photo I have found portholes at Crosley´s Hot Shot roadster...
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:lurk:
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A couple of Allards.
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And a Sunbeam-Talbot
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They were popular stick-on accessories in the '50s. This is a 1954 Ford Zephyr Mk1.