- 1. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Morrison <gofastmg@juno.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 23:41:26 EDT
- On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:00:13 -0500 "Eric Kutzli" <ekutzli@netins.net> Eric, Just tell him it's a common affliction amongst the LBC crowd. We all do it. Rick Morrison 72 MGBGT 74 Midget
- /html/mgs/1999-04/msg00415.html (6,505 bytes)
- 2. Visors (score: 1)
- Author: G Graham <ggraham@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:25:45 -0500
- On a lighter note . . . . Does anyone have a set of MGB sun visors aching for a new home? I have the hardware mounted on the windscreen frame, but nothing to put in them. TIA Gary 74B (running on 4 c
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01525.html (7,107 bytes)
- 3. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: "Dan Ray" <danray@bluegrass.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:49:04 -0600
- I have a feeling you won't find anything better, used that is, than the floppy originals that I have. I've looked, and visors are one of those things that you just don't find "good used" (like ashtr
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01539.html (8,167 bytes)
- 4. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Tegler " <wizardz@amdyne.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:57:05 -0500
- I rebuilt mine for the same reasons, ..couldn't find decent used ones and the price of new ones just didn't flush. I carefully split the edge open at one end (pin end not swivel/mount edge) and remov
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01542.html (9,243 bytes)
- 5. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: "Dan Ray" <danray@bluegrass.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:43:37 -0600
- Hey! Now THAT is a technique! I'm gonna do it....and photograph the whole procedure for my homepage-in-progess. AND add some sort of thin padding to get it back to original. I asked a long time ago
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01544.html (10,370 bytes)
- 6. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Tegler " <wizardz@amdyne.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:20:28 -0500
- hey I've only been on the list since Aug '98 ..never saw anyone ask. Padding... well... Mine look fine without any tape the cardboard to the metal frame that is on the pivot rod and too the frame. My
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01549.html (11,095 bytes)
- 7. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: JstBob@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:43:44 EST
- When I redid my visors years ago I found that a piece of carpet pading worked wonders in filling them out. A bit of stiff cardboard gave them the proper form. They look great in my closet, for as Dan
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01650.html (7,513 bytes)
- 8. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: G Graham <ggraham@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:10:11 -0500
- I'm kinda tall and my head sticks up in the wind stream. With the top down, and the visors up, they deflect enough air to make it a bit more comfortable. And yes, I _am_ over 40! Gary 74B
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01661.html (8,028 bytes)
- 9. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:40:09 +0000
- I would be really fascinated to know if any/many actually have these sun visors a) fitted; and b) ever in the 'down' position? My 'B didn't have visors when I bought her but I can't imagine using the
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01672.html (8,516 bytes)
- 10. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: "Dan Ray" <danray@bluegrass.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:24:46 -0600
- Mine were fitted on my '73 until I took them out to refurbish them. They're only useful occasionally, but the car came from the factory with them, so I intend to keep them there. I'm 5'10" and I woul
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01700.html (8,871 bytes)
- 11. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Joanna Adler <joannaadler@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:45:24 -0800
- I use my visors when the top is down to block out the sun when I'm driving into it. Joanna
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01701.html (8,835 bytes)
- 12. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:40:56 -0800
- I'm with Eric on this one. I'm 6'1" and have the seat almost all the way back, and I wish the front 1/3 of the hardtop was tinted plexiglass so I could see stoplights, overhead signs, SUV license pla
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01712.html (10,081 bytes)
- 13. RE: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Perry Robinson <PROBINSO@flower-mound.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:52:08 -0600
- Interesting discussion: When I bought my '61 MGA a few years back, it had clear, blue tinted lexan,(plexiglas) sunvisors, and wind wings (attached to sides of wind screen). I was told by the previous
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01716.html (11,353 bytes)
- 14. RE: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: John Steczkowski <stecz@Crossroads.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:59:01 -0600
- I've thought about making smoked plexiglass visors for both my MG (although the original visors are still in pretty good shape) and for my Porsche (which is notorious for the visors becoming more blo
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01717.html (11,546 bytes)
- 15. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 07:53:10 +0000
- Or in other words (and as others have written)... this is why God invented the peaked cap... and NO, we don't wear them backwards!! Thanks Max. Eric '68MGB MkII
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01721.html (7,728 bytes)
- 16. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:52:28 -0400
- I am 6'1" and every morning driving to work, I use the visor in the down position on my 76 B. The 67 has no visors - which is a powerful reason for not driving it daily. I encounter a 3-4 mile stretc
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01724.html (9,346 bytes)
- 17. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:00:14 -0600
- Funny thing is I took my visors off and stached them away. I'm 5' 5" and the things were in the way when looking up at traffic lights and no use for sunblocking. In the daytime when the top's down I
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01728.html (7,760 bytes)
- 18. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott McKorkle" <bmc@aa.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:49:59 -0800
- I, too, am 6 feet tall. I cannot use the visors down--my field of view is nearly completely eliminated. They are nice to deflect the wind (during colder weather) while in the up position, as well as
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01736.html (9,047 bytes)
- 19. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Kutzli" <ekutzli@netins.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:34:24 -0600
- I'm six foot four. The visors were like limp trashbags when I bought the car. They are now landfill fodder. (I did keep the seat tracks. They are in a box in the basement along with the blocky 74 rub
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01750.html (8,953 bytes)
- 20. Re: Visors (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Morrison <gofastmg@juno.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:01:55 EST
- Did something similar on the Midget, except wasn't smart enough to use tinted plexiglas (I never claimed to be smart). One thing I did do, thought was to make them a bit (about 1 1/2") wider to put m
- /html/mgs/1999-03/msg01753.html (8,026 bytes)
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