Chuck:
Scarlet it is.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles A Harris <harris_simmons@juno.com>
To: sbauserm@actsnet.com <sbauserm@actsnet.com>
Cc: ldmcjr@zebra.net <ldmcjr@zebra.net>; morgans@autox.team.net
<morgans@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: windshield
>Steve,
>Has your lovely Red car settled on her name yet? For Arlo et al.
>Morgans primary customer along with the times has changed. When many of
>us aquired our cars, inexpensive competition and fun was in our minds and
>Morgan had many inexpensive competitors at that time. I think that
>Morgan, as most manufacturers of the time, considered seven or so years
>as the useful life of their products. Now Morgan is looking at customers
>who have stretched that useful life to over ,say, fifty years and so the
>cost escalates with the technology and demands placed on the firm. I
>still prefer the simpler cars even if it does mean a tad more
>maintenance.
> None of my windshields seem to be very brittle. They are however not
>necessary to the good operation of the car and as they, like bumpers are
>somewhat effeminate, just don't mount them, easy if you wear glasses, or
>just use Aero screens. I just had a great day with Matilda, waxed her
>for the first time in years (so we could take pictures for her new
>insurance policy,) Great day for getting a sunburned scalp. Keep it up
>El Nino.
>Chuck Harris
>'66 4/4
>On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 07:26:44 -0600 "Stephen F. Bauserman"
><sbauserm@actsnet.com> writes:
>>Tony:
>>
>>I missed the first part of this thread, but as to windshield glass
>>being
>>more brittle with age, I remember reading somewhere in one of my
>>Mercedes
>>publications that the issue was with the thin layer of plastic in the
>>middle
>>of the glass that became brittle.
>>
>>As I recall, the tech note said that car windshields are laminated
>>with a
>>layer of soft plastic in the middle to keep them from shattering.
>>Over time
>>under exposure to UV the plastic becomes hard and the glass will
>>shatter.
>>
>>Steve Bauserman
>>67 Morgan 4/4
>>83 Mercedes 300SD
>>96 Cherokee Country
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: L.D. McLaughlin, Jr. <ldmcjr@zebra.net>
>>To: Morgan Mailing List <morgans@Autox.Team.Net>
>>Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 12:12 AM
>>Subject: windshield
>>
>>
>>>Arlo -
>>>
>>>That windshield with the 1967 date on it was probably the date that
>>size
>>>was first used - If you look at the amber and red plastic brake
>>lights, you
>>>will probably see the date 1969, which was the first year that style
>>was
>>>produced... I think they are still being used today...
>>>
>>>I, too, cannot imagine glass becoming more brittle with age...
>>>
>>>Tony
>>>
>>>=============================
>>>L.D. McLaughlin, Jr.
>>>Daphne, AL, USA
>>>
>>>ldmcjr@zebra.net
>>>http://www.zebra.net/~ldmcjr/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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