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
----------
> 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
>
>
|