Hey Kiddies forget those towels for the inside of the windscreen when
raining. Just get a spare windscreen wiper blade and use that on the
inside. Years of topless motoring created that solution. Works better AND
faster than any towel ever made. I keep mine in the little space between
the windscreen and the dash cover.
Larry
PS I tape over the inspection stickers as when thay get damp you can't
read the writing anymore. And the get rotten and fall off. However that
doesn't explain why somebody stole them a couple of weeks ago. Maybe had
to do with that "Exempt" emissions sticker.
At this exact moment in time 8/2/00 23:16, kgernert@triad.rr.com made the
profound statement:
>On 2 Aug 2000, at 0:12, Tomsaudi@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Am I the only person here missing out on driving his/her MG this summer
>> because of the rain? Here I am in August, and I could not even guess the
last
>
>> time I drove my MG. It's either always raining, I'm out of town, it's too
>> humid, etc, for me to enjoy the car. What makes matters worse is that this
is
>
>> my first full summer with the car.
>
>Sorry to hear about that, Tom. But my advice, too, is to just drive the
>thing. This is
>my first summer with my B, too, and this week was the first time I drove
>it in the
>rain. (Bought the car last Fall.)
>
>I've always avoided driving it on days where rain was fairly likely, until
>this week.
>My other car is out of commission at the moment, so I'm driving the MG all
>week.
>Of course, the first day I took the MG "because I had to", I got rained on
>big time in
>the afternoon. I managed to get off the road and get the top up moments
>before the
>downpour started.
>
>Fortunately, I found that the blower fan works well on both speeds, and it
>was able
>to keep the windshield defogged nicely. And I sure was glad I took time
>before
>leaving home in the morning to apply Rain-X.
>
>Yes, the top does not fit like it should, and I got leaked on. But, as my
>wife asked me
>earlier, "What happens if it rains?" All I could answer was, "Well, the
>car gets wet."
>Now that it's happened once, it's not such a big deal. It's worth it for
>the top-down
>time I get in between the rain!
>
>As for the humidity, it gets pretty stifling here in North Carolina, and I
>just the MG
>anyway. But then, only a small part of my 36-mile commute is in stop-and-go
>traffic -- the humidity (and warm floorboards) is much easier to deal with
>at
>highway speeds.
>
>Tom, I encourage you to just get out and drive the thing. You might want
>a couple
>old towels handy, and an umbrella just in case, but you'll be glad you did.
>
>
>--
>Keith Gernert
>79 MGB
>--
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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