Joe West
05-09-2005, 07:24 PM
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:19:36 -0400
From: Mark Corbin <airvair@richnet.net>
Re: <VV> Rear Windshield
You mean you have the only dual cowl phaeton Corvair in existence? WOW!
Anyone who knows anything about automotive terminology knows that that is the
only car that can possibly have a "rear windshield," because the WINDSHIELD does
exactly what its name implies. It SHIELDs the passengers from the WIND.
What you are referring to is known as a BACKLITE in automotive terms. In lay
terms, it is sometimes misnamed a "rear window," which is crude and inaccurate,
but workable.
As someone who is employed in the automotive industry, such gross mangling of
words grates against my nerves like the proverbial "fingernail across a
chalkboard." OUCH!!!
- -Mark
Doug Mackintosh wrote:
> Who can recommend someone who can reseal my rear windshield,
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:19:36 -0400
From: Mark Corbin <airvair@richnet.net>
Re: <VV> Rear Windshield
You mean you have the only dual cowl phaeton Corvair in existence? WOW!
Anyone who knows anything about automotive terminology knows that that is the
only car that can possibly have a "rear windshield," because the WINDSHIELD does
exactly what its name implies. It SHIELDs the passengers from the WIND.
What you are referring to is known as a BACKLITE in automotive terms. In lay
terms, it is sometimes misnamed a "rear window," which is crude and inaccurate,
but workable.
As someone who is employed in the automotive industry, such gross mangling of
words grates against my nerves like the proverbial "fingernail across a
chalkboard." OUCH!!!
- -Mark
Doug Mackintosh wrote:
> Who can recommend someone who can reseal my rear windshield,