[DeTomaso] Vader window system?

[Richard Greenblum]

I have the Vader window lifts.  As soon as I found out about the brass gears, I installed them in both window and the headlight lifts.  Despite replacing the whiskers and several attempts by me and others to adjust the tracks, I could never get the windows to open or close all the way, nor could I get rid of the drag at the top of travel.  That’s what made the $750 palatable.  I didn’t do it for the speed, in fact, I’m not crazy about the speed because I think it’s a little too fast.

Richard
Austin, TX


> On Jul 27, 2021, at 23:42, Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
> 
>   All,
> 
>     Apparently this failed to go through first time?
> 
>   Mike
>   Sent from my iPad
>   Begin forwarded message:
> 
>   From: Mike Drew <mikeldrew at aol.com>
>   Date: July 27, 2021 at 16:43:24 PDT
>   To: John Donahue <demongusta at gmail.com>
>   Cc: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
>   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Vader window system?
> 
>   John,
>   It's a super-sexy, super-elegant engineering solution to what I
>   consider to be a non-problem, that being that the windows don't go up
>   and down fast enough. It replaces the entire gear-and-arm mechanism
>   with an exquisitely engineered cable-based system.
>   I've never seen the problem with the stock system when it works as
>   designed (using proper brass replacements for the crappy plastic gears
>   that can crack and fail). I have never once suffered because they
>   wouldn't go up or down fast enough. But some people feel the need to
>   have a glass guillotine in the door, that sends the glass up ZOOM that
>   fast. For them, the Vader system was invented (Ted Mitchell the
>   inventor was obsessed with Darth Vader, and his black GT5 license plate
>   was VADER).
>   It's a brilliantly conceived and executed system, which is
>   unfortunately expensive ($750 last I checked, for both sides).
>   Mike
>   Sent from my iPad
> 
>     On Jul 27, 2021, at 13:30, John Donahue <demongusta at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
> 
>     For those of us that don't know, what is the Vadar window system?
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Jack
> 
>     #4346
> 
>     On Jul 27, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Mike Drew via DeTomaso
>     <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
> 
>     Great thanks!
> 
>     Mike
> 
>     Sent from my iPad
> 
>       On Jul 27, 2021, at 12:14, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
> 
>       wrote:
> 
>     Mike,
> 
>     Rick posted on the PI Forum last year that he is still manufacturing
> 
>     the Vader window units and selling at $750 a pair.
> 
>     Email; mrhatfield06 at hotmail.com
> 
>     Cell (918) 346-8786
> 
>     Julian
> 
>       __________________________________________________________________
> 
>     From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf
>     of
> 
>     Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
> 
>     Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 12:08 PM
> 
>     To: De Tomaso Forum <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
> 
>     Subject: [DeTomaso] Vader window system?
> 
>     Guys,
> 
>     The late Ted Mitchell sold what was arguably the best aftermarket
> 
>     window solution, the Vader window lifts. With his passing, has that
> 
>     product left the market entirely? Or is Rick keeping them going?
>     I've
> 
>     searched the web and can't find anything, nor can I find contact
>     info
> 
>     for Rick?  A friend is looking for a set....
> 
>     Mike
> 
>     Sent from my iPad
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