My Thomas Cooler

[Joey Newell]

OKAY so some people have been asking me about that thing on my passenger side window. So here's its story, I bought it from this guy named Tom at a car show. It was $80, so i thought at first that it was an original Swamp Cooler! I was stoked because i have been looking for one but they are so hard to find. Well... as i started talking to the guy he was telling me that he had been making them in his garage. As we started walking to my truck to put it on he explained what all of the different parts were and how it doesn't really blow air into the car its for show. I still had to have it! so as we fit it on my truck he told me that this was the last Thomas Cooler he's going to make due to health reason's. so he told me to call it a Thomas Cooler. He said you might be able to find some of his stuff online.

Im hoping to try and make one they look pretty sweet!

what do you guys think?

Front is a hub cap off of an old car ( i wish i knew what kind) riveted down with some chrome trim piece.

Back is the center cap off of a big rig

The tube i think is a chunk of an exhaust pipe off of a big rig.

The vents are just pvc pipe and plastic with a slit to put the window in and some felt inside to protect the window.

The black and glitter is just some type of wrap. (I'm thinking it's something like a drum wrap)


let me know what you think!

[Joey Newell]

MORE PICTURES and yes that is my 1966 bench seat in my room lol

[Clyde65]

I think it is sweeeeettt!

When I was a kid, My Grandfather worked on this guys old Buick and it had one of those, I was too scared of the old guy to ask him anything, but that was too cool.