At 11:05 PM 3/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I've seen a TR7 with a "wussy" air screen that was convertible top-grade
>clear plastic snapped on (using convertible top-type snaps) to the roll bar
>cover. You could barely tell it was there, unless the light caught it. I
>really want to do it to my cars too!
>
>And yes, you can unsnap it a block before you arrive at the club meeting :)
>
>Gregory W. Smith http://www.cvn.net/~gsmith
>Member, Central Pennsylvania Triumph Club
>1980 Spitfire 1500 "for the wife" :)
>1980 TR7 Spider v8 (in progress)
>1980 TR7 30th Anniversary Edition (deceased)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-spitfires@autox.team.net
>[mailto:owner-spitfires@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Growe58@aol.com
>Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 9:36 AM
>To: spitfires@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Miata
>
>
>
>In a message dated 3/19/99 11:18:08 PM EST, savercool@msn.com writes:
>>
>> P.S.-i.e.-the same kind of people who would buy a convertible with a/c;
>&/or
>> the kind of people who actually put the top down-but leave the windows
>up!
>> (Don't even get me started on those wussy air screens Mercedes have in
>the
>> back!)
>>
>I always figured that if weather conditions dictated a choice of top up or
>top
>down/
>windows up, go for the latter. BTW, top down/windows up creates a fierce
>backdraft;
>for some reason passenger side window only up seems to be actually better.
>
>As far as the "wussy air screens" go, I built my own out of pvc piping and
>window
>screen. Once I knew they existed, I just "had" to build one - some sort of
>Field of Dreams-like personality failing, I guess. I experimented with it
>for
>a while - it came
>in real handy one frosty December night when me and the missus bundled up to
>look at Christmas lights - but frankly it's an aesthetic nightmare. And the
>little voice
>inside my head - should I be admitting to this? - keeps telling me "if you
>want a
>serene cockpit, why don't you just get a Buick and be done with it?"
>
>Anybody else out there who's tried a draft deflector aka wussy air screen
>and
>willing
>to publicly admit it? Also is there anybody else out there listening to the
>little voice
>inside their head and willing to publicly admit it? (Boy, am I flapping in
>the wind or
>what?)
>
>-Greg
>
>78 Spit (daily driver)
>72 Spit (someday...sigh...someday)
>
>
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