What are these???

[thedahmer]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=320058567136&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=011

Sonic Wings??????????????

[BobT-47P15]

Gary, don't think I've ever seen such things. At first I thought they might be something that attached to the hood ornament, but probably not as there are 4. Wish there were more pictures from different angles.

[Plymouthy Adams]

looks more like scags on a surfboard

[Normspeed]

Too bad he only has 4. I need 7.

[thedahmer]

7?!?!?!?!! where do you put them??

[Normspeed]

maybe here...?

[BobT-47P15]

Norm, does that wagon go fast enough to need that helmet???? :D

[Normspeed]

Yeah, in my DREAMS.

[BobT-47P15]

I asked the seller of those sonic wings if they could take any more pics from different angles.

[Normspeed]

I've never seen anything like them before.

[Plymouthy Adams]

For once I have to agree with you...I will take a stab and say that these were probably mounted at the wheel opening..could have been a choice between them and curb feelers.

[Brad Lustig]

I've seen similar on top of rice rockets. My first thought was a curb feeler replacement, I hope they have some give if that's the case!

[gumpa_38]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=320058567136&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=011

Sonic Wings??????????????

These are the same thing I have attached to the wing windows of the doors I got in Colorado. I don't know what use they have but they are attached to both wing windows.

[FMSPEED49]

I've seen a similar product, mounted to the wing windows, to deflect the air, so you could open the wing without direct air coming in, maybe for a smoker so you could ash out the wing?, without getting cold air in the car, now why there would be 4 of em i don't know.

My 55 buick had somthing similar but they were sort of a green plexiglass looking stuff. I tossed em, they were ugly.

[FMSPEED49]

basicly same as these

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NOS-Vintage-Accessory-1974-76-VEGA-Air-Deflectors-RARE_W0QQitemZ270059773188QQihZ017QQcategoryZ42606QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[FMSPEED49]

Ok pulled some old photos of the buick, they were not on the wing windows, they were mounted to the front pillar of the door, they were designed to push the air away from the window, similar to the plastic ones you can buy at autozone and stick to your window frame, i assume there are 4, for a four door.

[BobT-47P15]

Perhaps kind of like these vent window wind deflectors, also called breezies.

[BobT-47P15]

And, of course, those breezies come in assorted colors in plastic. Ones in previous post are stainless.....that's what i have.

Then there are the headlight visors with jewel.

Or plastic headlight visors.

Or the chrome half moons for the top part of your headlights.

[james curl]

If memory serves me right they go on the outside lower front edge of the vent window so that when you opened the vent window to the fatherest point the rear edge would go it directed the air down toward the floor of the car instead of in your face. The front edge of the vent window pulls back to face the driver with the rear edge now in the foward position allowing the maximun amount of air to enter the car depending on the foward speed. The wind deflectors channeled the flow toward the floor of the car instead of the drivers face. For people too young or rich to remember travelling across the great southwest in the summertime without air conditioning this was the way you cooled the car. Both front vent windows in the full open position and both rear vent windows in the full trail mode with all other windows up.

[Dodgefran]

Actually...........they are steel scorlelabs. They are used on a 1929 Spiffweller Sedan

[bob_amos]

James, You might be right. I recall, many years ago, cars with something like these that allowed the vent wing to open and limit the air flow at the bottom. Air would rush in without them or would be controlable with them. Haven't thought of them in decades. Many decades. But, I still wonder what they are if that is not what they are for? Someone should buy them, that has the right car, just to solve the mystery.

[Normspeed]

You know, I was also thinking Spiffweller scorelabs, but I didn't want to be the first to suggest it.

Actually...........they are steel scorlelabs. They are used on a 1929 Spiffweller Sedan

[thedahmer]

OK I Googled "spiffweller" and there was nothing that came up here---and then scorlelabs.. nothing..

[Charlie Olson]

These are wind buffers that go inside the door window frames in the upper rear top corner of all four windows. They prevent the wind from making that buffeting/whooping ear irritating whump noise. I know this because the same technique is still used in cross country off road racing like the Baja 500.