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To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: double locking hood
From: thorn <thorn@sonic.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:26:38 -0800
As Mark Dent mentioned, my '68 didn't have a secondary hood latch either, 
it used to pop up all the time while I was driving.

Being a young teenage dude, I finally got used to it and continued driving. 
It used to lay flat until around 80 or so, then it'd lift up a few inches. 
It never lifted more than a foot, even at HI speeds. I guess it became a 
dumb hat trick for friends, I wouldn't mention it and then could always get 
an alarmed reaction from the passenger.

I wonder if it got "pulled up" into a low pressure pocket that developed 
over the car, and if any "push" happened from under hood air?...

Thorn Filippelli
Santa Rosa, California
'70 2000 Solex
#13575

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 >> BTW, the double locking hood is unnecessary on the Roadster, or any car
 >with a
 >> front-hinged hood. Typical bureaucratic short-sightedness: "Require it on
 >all of 'em.
 >> Don't confuse me with technical details!"
 >>
 >> Gary McCormick
 >> San Jose CA
 >> '70 2000 SRL311-13291
 >>
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