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Goodness!The day I bought my 65, we drove it home, 20 miles of it in rain and hail on the highway with no place to hide. It was coming down so hard I couldn't see to drive over 25 mph. Rain stopped so fast you could draw a line between wet and dry. Sun dried the car and it was spotless when I made it home. Pea sized hail, not a mark on the car, thank God!
I drove my old '68 Super Bee all the way back from a NeHOA meet in Chicopee, MA (back in the mid 80's) to northern VA with no wiper motor installed in the car at all one time (I had bought it with the previous owner installing the '69 SixPak setup on it, which doesn't clear 2 speed wiper motors).
Don't you know it came the rain storm from hell all the way back down I-95...
Car was dancing, wouldn't let me go much more than 45 or so.
We had bought a bottle of Rain-X and stopped about every hour under shelter to re-apply the crap, which worked halfway decent sort of.
Lastly, I taught my ride-along friend that day about reaching up under the dash and moving the wiper linkage by hand.
The George Washington bridge in NYC was a hoot; the Delaware Bay bridge was a freaking NIGHTMARE, all open grid metal and side winds and such. White knuckle ride...
Many, many hours later we arrived in VA. I peeled my hands off the wheel (death grip cramps!) and tried to get my eyes to focus normally; that took a while, too.
Thanked the Lord, tossed out my friends' stuff and headed on down the road another hour to my place.