the secret to keeping your hair from getting
mussed by the wind when motoring with the top down
is to remove all hair from the top of your head.
just ask me, i know from experience.
mike
'60 bugeye
an5l/34964
-----Original Message-----
From: FunE4MG <FunE4MG@aol.com>
To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
<spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 4:00 PM
Subject: Backdraft excluder
>Hi Gang,
>While walking home from school today, I was
passed by an old SL model
>Mercedes, and it had a screen in place behind the
drivers head to keep the
>wind from buffeting the driver from
behind...here's my question:
>Has anyone ever tried to put one of these on a
Sprite?
>It shouldn't be too hard to build one out of a
tubular (conduit) frame and
>somehoe attach screen material to allow a
rearward view, and yet block some of
>the wind. You could install it in the top bow
sockets, and in addition to the
>wind wings that can be shaved down from an MGA,
should make driving the Bugeye
>more enjoyable and maybe even relieve the Healey
Hair syndrome.
>Ideas? Comments?
>
>I await all input, both complimentary and of the
flame variety from purists
>who say that the wind blown look is part of the
mystique....
>Cheers,
>Tom
>
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