In article <3C7A19C2.2BD6E0EA@rave.ac.uk>, James Carruthers
<j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk> writes
>Skip straight to the quesiton and avoid the ramble --> ***
OK
>
>*** But my question is - where do the windows go? - surely the soft top
>doesnt just curl around and go inside?
Bizarrely, yes. I've never really understood why Triumph didn't come
up with a better solution for this. After all, the Spitfire may have
been designed by an Italian (and it never rains in Italy, of course),
but it was built in UK, and it hardly ever *stops* raining here.
When driving, rainwater only tends to come in at the very top of the
leading edge of the side windows, and then not a great deal gets in, so
it is hardly worth worrying about. When parking, however, try to face
the car into the wind, or quantities of rainwater will blow in all the
way along the trailing edges.
> If it goes on the outside then
>you can't get out with the windows up? I feel Im missing something
>here.....
No, not missing anything, just discovering another of the joys of owning
a Spitfire. :-)
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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