For my complete MGA 1600 experience add;
* A sand blasted triplex windshield that turned white opaque when
headlights hit it.
* Side curtains that would flop outward at 45 degrees when the low
pressure from a passing truck buffeted it.
* Black hole darkness - rain and ice soaked back roads of
Pennsylvania.
Makes the Tiger seem like a completely civil all weather car.
Although it has done nothing to improve my "driving by intuition" skills
like the A.
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> From: Dave McDermott[SMTP:dave.mcdermott@cusys.edu]
> Steve,
>
> Does that bring back memories. Let's not forget it was the
> combination of a poor windshield defogger, the couple of years old
> yellowed
> sidecurtains and the very small and yellowed rear soft top window that
> made
> it such "fun" to drive in the rain. I think it would have been safer to
> have
> the wet left sleeve. The roll up windows are one of the many reasons I
> got
> my first Tiger.
>
> Dave McDermott
> Former 57 MGA owner
>
>
> At 10:48 AM 8/7/98 +0100, Steve Laifman wrote:
> >
> >
> >Cheadle, Bo V wrote:
> >
> >> [Cheadle, Bo V] Steve: In your day those vehicles without rollup
> windows
> >> were stage coaches. Welcome home, Bo.
> >> > (In my day, you couldn't be called a roadster if you had roll-up
> windows).
> >> >
> >> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >Almost correct. You remember the song from Oklahoma about the "Surrey
> with the
> >Fringe on Top". It had "Isinglass Curtains you could roll right down".
> Well,
> >want to guess what the MG and Jag side curtains were made of?
> >
> >You could always tell a dedicated Sports Car driver by his wet left
> sleeve,
> when
> >it's raining.
> >
> >The "Modern Cars", like the Healy, had sliding perspex. Soft life.
> >
> >Driving one of those cars with the top and curtains up has been described
> as
> >"being in an endless canvas tunnel that leaks." Very close description.
> >
> >
> >Steve
> >--
> >Steve Laifman < One first kiss, >
> >B9472289 < one first love, and >
> > < one first win, is all >
> > < you get in this life. >
> >
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