[L84sky]

They'll be out near where the front of the door and the front quarter panel meet

Does anybody have a picture of the drain location(s)?

 

[L84sky]

need to get out to either side of the vehicle to get to the actual drains.

Can someone please show me where these drains are? I cannot find them.

 

[L84sky]

you should be able to run a garden hose down through the cow

Where does that water exit the car?

I see odd shaped openings on either side of the cowl vents.

The plastic cowl directs water into these openings.

I can see a drain hole inside each opening but I can't tell where that water goes until I remove the fender liners.

But I'm pretty sure those two holes are not the drain for the cowl vents. Where does that water go?

 

[L84sky]

I'm trying to envision what's behind the firewall by comparing my car to this parts catalog illustration.

There's drain holes at the bottom, under those ones in the picture above that lead out into the space between the wheel arch liner and the outer guard / fender

Are you saying the drain holes are near the hood hinges? And is there or is there not a drain hole inside the wiper access opening?

 

[L84sky]

No one is going to remove their cowl and inner fender liner to just to give you pics

I wasn't expecting that but I was hoping someone had discovered where the water exits the cowl area. I don't want to run a hose into the cowl opening until I have a good idea of where the water should be coming out. If the only drain holes are in the blue circles I should be able see them from the wheel well. I will remove my fender liners and take pictures after the weather warms up. Can I assume from your annotation there is no drain hole inside the wiper access area?

 

[L84sky]

once you pull the cowl and the fender liners, it will be pretty obvious how the water drains out

That's what I'm hoping. Before this thread I had no idea where to start looking. If they are under the fender liners I will find them.

We get a lot of tree debris here

This is not a maintenance issue for me. The car was parked under a carport for the first two years and garage kept for the last twenty. It has never been parked under a tree. I'm just curious about the design and construction of the car.

In my car you can actually hear water sloshing around

I hope it's not this bad: