To all who have invested in an metal radiator shroud,
No criticism intended, just curious if there was some functional
advantage. I pulled a perfectly good valve cover off to replace it with
an alloy cover only because I thought it looked cool, so I can relate.
Jim Davis
Fortson, GA
CF38690UO
CF37325U
"Kai M. Radicke" wrote:
>
> > I'm obviously missing something here. What's wrong with the black
> > cardboard shroud that came with the cars? Other than the fact that the
> > cardboard shrouds weather over time I can see no functional advantage of
> > the metal items. While mine is a subjective view, the cardboard looks
> > better than the "heavy metal" shroud, but as always, beauty is in the
> > eye...
> > Jim Davis
>
> Well in my case, my TR-6 was missing the cardboard radiator shroud when I
> purchased it. Considering that my car is not a show car, and I do quite a
> bit of work on it I wanted something that would look nice, be very durable,
> and would clean up well. Not to mention the fact that cardboard readily
> absorbs moisture and retains it quite well too...
>
> As for beauty, it looks much better installed as seen at
> http://pages.cthome.net/BobD/winter_98.htm
>
> --
> Kai M. Radicke -- kmr@pil.net
> 1966 MGB -- 1974 Triumph TR-6
> http://www.pil.net/~felix (pix soon)
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