>From: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
>
>So when rain threatened, I would try hard to get home to the
>garage with the top down. Then, if the morrow dawned clear, I had won. I
>usually made it, but I remember one day when the heavens opened, drenching
>me so quickly that it made no sense to bother putting the top up. Then
>the trick became to sit at a stop light, with the water pouring down, and
>try to fix a gentle smile on my face as if I would have life no other way.
When we first got the TR7, we tried to drive it everywhere (making good use
of our CAA plus membership). Driving this car in the rain was a most
unpleasant expereince, not only becase the top leaked but becuase the windows
were opaque! One day I was giving a presentation about an hour away from
here. I took one of my colleagues with me. The weather cooperated on the way
there, and looked like it might hold out out on the way back, so I elected to
keep the top down so that I could see what was about to rear-end me. Once on
the highway, it only took an instant for the sky to darken, and follow up
with lightning flashes and driving rain. The windshield wipers worked, and as
long as I kept it around 75 we didn't get wet, so we continued merrily along
with open top in a violent downpour. I thought it was terrific, and my
passenger found all this, well, interesting. The trouble was that the
slow-moving left lane bandits were particularly annoying.....
Jody
jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca - Toronto - '79 wedge with new Amco top
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