Re: top speed?

["Nathaniel J. Leon" <connectcds@home.com>]

Irv:

Don't down rate your "unscientific experience". Your obversations about
a convertible with the top up and top down are exactly correct and based
on accepted principles of aerodyanmics.

It is one of the reasons why many open top race cars have very short
wind screens. The windscreen on a convertible is essentially a flat
plate which is very draggy as compared to a box with the same frontal
area and a windward depth of twice its height.

Niel Leon - CDS
with Mr Hyde in Stasis