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I've been driving around my old 450SL quite a lot this summer with the top off, and my hair blowing in the wind, but I have had a bit of a problem with the air currents in it. I typically wear my hair in a ponytail when at work, and to and from. I need to also wear a baseball cap backwords though when driving in the car. My head pokes above the windsheild a little bit, but that is not the problem. The problem stems from the amount of turblence that develops just behind the windshield. Right there, the wind sort of blows forward, carrying my hair forward and around my face. The fact that my head pokes above the top of the windshield helps a little bit, but I was wondering if there was a way to minimise this turbulence, such as adding a small airfoil to the edge of the mirror, or some other method to direct wind into my face, and keep the air from blowing backwords.
Anybody else drive a convertible? What do you do to combat this problem?
I have experience that's similar...as in a car with T-Tops. Nissan 300ZX.
The Z car comes with these "flaps" (for lack of a better word) that are on the sun visor. The flaps look sort of like vanity mirror doors like you see on cars, but have this hook on the inside. They clip up on the T-Top opening and deflect the air slightly up and over the head.
You may be able to buy or make something like that on your car. I know on the Z Car it works very well.
but I might need to have the exact Opposite effect. It seems that there is a low pressure zone just behind the windshield that "sucks" the air that travels over the windshield back into the seating area. This is creating sort of a vortex or something like a whirlwind that picks up my hair and blows it FORWARD.
I am thinking if I had enough air moving into the seating area, it could break this up. Having a bit of wind blowing my hair BACK would certainly cure this I think becaue all of it will be behind me, instead of blowing into my eyes and face
...If you do not want to braid your hair...
How about putting several ponytail hair bands at intervals
down the length of the tail?
Hey, When I drive my Daytona Shelby Z it has t-tops. I put my hair into a tail and then put on a knit hat with the hair shoved up inside. No hair sticks out to get tangled or blow into my face. People look at me funny somewtimes, but I just laugh at them when the turbo boost kicks in, and I leave them in the dust.
Works really good for me.
I also do this when I drive the other car with the sunroof open.
The solution I have found that works best for me on the Harley is a hair glove - a 12" leather or neoprene "tube" that you snap around your pony. They have a 20" one too. I am going to go for the neoprene one next time as the heavy suede one I have gets a little heavy. Available at any Harley dealer.