Because I sometimes smoke in the car, I have the habit of leaving the front window or both of them about half an inch open to ventilate the jalopy for the benefit of the non-smoking majority. But because the car has roly-poly styling, with curved glass and pronounced 'tumblehome' at roof level, the sort of howling gales and lashing rain we've had today sprinkled the driver's seat lavishly with water. It wipes off the leather all right and soaks into the sort of suede stuff inoffensively.
But I remembered today while doing the wiping chore that cars of any size or with quality pretensions tended, when I was young, to have a sort of narrow fixed glass strip along the top of the window opening, outside the sliding window, that would have kept most of the water out. No doubt that is what those glass strips were for.
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