A week or so ago I took Mabel to a local car show. Unfortunately, it was very hot outside and the temp inside the car was even worse even though it was a short drive. I was looking around for window mounted or dash mounted fans and found many modern, plastic fans and blowers available. I wanted something that at least looked a little vintage but still worked well. I my mind, I was visioning the old school bus fans that were used to help keep the drivers cool. I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for, but I did find a ALEKO CF02 mini (6″) fan that looked pretty close to the look I wanted. It was advertised as having an adhesive base for mounting, but that part wasn’t true. This fan is pretty heavy, no way any adhesive is going to secure it. Anyhow, I ordered it, it arrived and I was pretty satisfied with the quality. But as I mentioned, for it’s size, it’s pretty heavy. Obviously, there was no way to mount it to the windshield, so I had to come up with a way to mount it to a flat dash without drilling any holes or doing anything to make it permanent. So after kicking around a few ideas, I figured I’d let the weight of the fan work to my advantage. I used a piece of 1/8″ scrap aluminum to make a bracket that would straddle itself between the top of the dash and windshield rubber, then used the screw for the dash pad to keep it from moving. After a few hit and misses, it worked like a charm. Threw on a little paint and it looks like it could’ve been there the whole time. The fan cost $16.99 on Amazon and I’ve got about 3 hours in the whole project. I’ll call this one a success…..

The 12 volt auxiliary had already been added. You can see how I did it by clicking here!