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Re: stowaway top needed / hoods

To: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>, MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: stowaway top needed / hoods
From: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:47:41 -0700
Max,

You miss the whole point !   When the physically intense top-putting up 
manoeuvre has been completed the MG passes the Miata whose driver is inside 
an expensive gym working off his fat accumulated by extreme inactivity.


At 09:57 AM 6/1/05, Max Heim wrote:
>on 5/30/05 8:25 PM, Bob Donahue at bobmgtd@insightbb.com wrote:
>
> > Are the stowaways easier to put up and down?
>
>hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa...
>
><ROTFL>
>
>Well, I think you'd be amused by the reaction of the Miata driver in the
>next lane, while you got out of the car, opened your trunk, struggled with
>two three-armed infernal contraptions for several minutes, further struggled
>to insert the combined apparatus into the tonneau-bar sockets, returned to
>the trunk to unfurl the top and flop it over the ungainly skeleton, attached
>the fasteners in the precise sequence necessary, cursing and bruising your
>fingers on the header clamps in the process, then beat on the stretcher bar
>for several minutes, then snapped the remaining snaps into place.... oh,
>forget about it, the Miata is several miles down the road at this point...
>
>No, the stowaway top's advantage is definitely not ease of use. I would say
>it is for someone who raises the top only occasionally, when strictly
>necessary.
>
>
>--
>
>Max Heim
>'66 MGB GHN3L76149 (yep, stowaway top...)
>If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>
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>

Regards

Barrie Robinson
barrie@look.ca 




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