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Re: Fender off, DPO! DPO! DPO!

To: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Subject: Re: Fender off, DPO! DPO! DPO!
From: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@byu.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:43:11 -0700 (MST)
I think they installed the winscreen with the paint still wet.  The rubber was 
stuck pretty good to the body, do the point some of the paint peeled off.  But 
yeah,  looking back on it, doing about 95-100mph with the windscreen not bolted 
on right, it's a little scarey.  

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Max Heim wrote:

> Man, I can't believe you were driving around with the windshield frame 
> loose. I'd think that as soon as you tried to clamp the top header clamps 
> it would have pulled the windshield loose. But then maybe you never put 
> the top up... <g>
> 
> Andrew B. Lundgren had this to say:
> 
> >I found out why the DPO  (Not my father-in-law by the way, he never 
> >worked on it, just drove it once in a while...) didn't bolt the 
> >windscreen back on.  HE BROKE THE FRAME OFF! Idiot.
> >
> >Thanks for letting me vent.  Add a drivers side windshield frame brace 
> >or what ever it is called to the list of things I need.
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the red one with the silver bootlid.

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