Keeping your cool during the summer is no easy task. Ingenious and inventive people are constantly trying to find new an innovative ways to stay cool. As summer draws to a close here are a few who have gone in new, inventive, and sometimes humorous directions in their quest to keep cool.

Houston based Civil Engineer Scott Dawson was sick of driving in the Texas heat without air conditioning. Too cheap or too smart to get the car's air-con fixed, he decided to save the $1200 and bolt a standard home unit to the roof instead.

A little rewiring later and he had what you see in the picture; an ugly box sat up top which increases gas consumption via the double methods of increased drag and battery drain. Two words: Climate. Change.

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06 VW Jetta TDI

That's funny, right there!

Now, he just needs to order one of those stick on sun roofs, and he can camoflage that thing!

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

A Darwin Award in the making...

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

I can't believe an engineer would do something like that. I thought they A. made enough money to get their AC repaired, and B. had more sense than to resort to "bailing wire and bubble gum" repair techniques. He oud probably make an appearance on The Red Green show. Is that still on PBS?

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Back in the 80's, I met a "Silicon Valley" engineer who had installed an rack mount style SAE home stereo power amp in the trunk of his Mercedes sedan to drive the speakers in his car stereo setup. He bought the biggest power inverter that the Lafayette Radio catalog sold. The twin VU meters were impressive.

Hell I cant believe its not rigged into a W123 with ACC.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi