If you've ever driven a car with vacuum windshield wipers in the rain, you'll recognize this scenario. As you encounter an incline the wipers slow down, as the incline becomes steeper you step down on ...

Windshield wipers are powered by a small electric motor, usually mounted on the firewall or under the cowl (the area under the windshield’s base). The motor activates linkage that moves the wiper arms ...

Since 1988, New Port Engineering has been producing replacement kits for windshield wipers, taking those old vacuum motors and replacing them with 12-volt electric wiper kits. Instead of relying on a ...

Futuristic innovations were a hallmark of '50's and '60's General Motors concept cars, and Corvette—along with Cadillac—were usually first in line for a GM concept car innovation to make it to the ...

Anyone, and I mean anyone, who has ever driven in the rain in a vehicle that is equipped with vacuum-operated wipers knows they are pretty much useless. Perhaps the only thing that could be worse ...