By Nate Risch
11/06/2017
Last week, the evaporator assembly finally went into the ’79 Euro 635CSi. Together with the compressor and condenser, this meant that the Big Three pieces of air-conditioning hardware were installed.
By Nate Risch
10/30/2017
Roadster tip No. 1: In the desert reaches of the American Southwest, you can fight the heat by slipping a soft-sided cooler into the passenger footwell—it helps if you have no passenger, of course—and cranking up the air-condition with all the cold air directed to the footwells.
By Nate Risch
10/28/2017
It was a brisk fall morning in New York City, one of those cold early October mornings where 50 degrees feels like below freezing, thanks to having basked in months of summer heat. The captain and I—the first officer—were standing at the curb of a mid-town Manhattan hotel waiting for the car service to take us to the airport.
By Nate Risch
10/28/2017
Last week, the dynamic of “it’ll never be easier than right now” got the better of me, and I delayed the evaporator installation in order to remove, rebuild, and reinstall the heater box. (Actually, it wasn’t “it’ll never be easier than right now.” It was “all the foam has worn off these flaps and it’ll leak more hot air than [fill in your least-favorite politician].”)
By Nate Risch
10/28/2017
You know how those electric-vehicle drivers whine about range anxiety—that is, they worry that their little battery-powered scooters will run out of juice before they make it home? Well, welcome to Texas, pardner—the place where range anxiety was invented.
