When my 240Z was stolen in 1988, I rented an Escort from Budget Rent a
car and when I got on the highway (after having the car 5 minutes) the
hood flew open, cracked the windshield and almost bent in half. When I
returned the car after jumping on the hood a few times so I could see
out, they wanted to charge me for the damage!!! I had a friend of mine
who is a lawyer call them and tell them we were going to sue them if
they didn't backdown. They did but put a claim in to my insurance
company. I told the insurance powers what happened and they laughed at
the thought Budget was trying to collect.
Mike
BTW a tractor trailer was behind me when the hood flew open and Thank
God he didn't hit me!
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Katz [mailto:fredkatz@2xtreme.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 2:35 AM
To: Susan and Mark Miller; Datsun list
Subject: Re: double locking hood
I appreciate the Brit's cars too, as well as our roadsters for the
reverse
hood. Back in the late 1960's I borrowed my sister's Fiat. I was doing
60
in the fast lane on the freeway when the hood went WHOMP on the
windshield.
If you like thrills, try moving across 4 lanes of freeway while
blindfolded
to get to the shoulder! Cheap hood mechanism. Cheap sheet metal too; a
few
whacks to the hood and it looked normal again.
Fred
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> From: Susan and Mark Miller <marknsuz@pacbell.net>
> To: Datsun list <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Subject: RE: Re: double locking hood
> Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:45 PM
>
> The problem with having dual hood latches is that they are typically
> both installed in the car at the same time, and so will tend to age the
> same and fail together.
>
> I bought my wife a 1961 Nash mini Metro a couple of years ago (hey, it
> gave the Datsun something to laugh at) and had both latches on the rear
> hinged hood fail on the freeway one afternoon. My, but that really
> wasn't much fun.
>
> It is good to own a British built automobile every now and then to
> appreciate the way the Datsun is over designed in many ways. I'd sworn
> never to do it again after my MG midget but weakened. Ah well.
>
> Mark Miller
> 69 RHD fairlady 2000
>
>
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