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1. Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:18:00 -0700charset="iso-8859-1"; Just took my second drive in the TR3B. Re-bleeding the brakes helped a lot. So... I decided to give it more speed this time. And here is what I learned -- when driving with no apron and no windshiel; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00068.html (7,507 bytes)
2. Re: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 13:32:15 -0600charset="iso-8859-1"; i'm in my garage today, re-assembling chassis parts and came in for some day-old pizza. checked email and read your letter. thanks for the great laugh and reminding me that it's just a freakin' hobby; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00070.html (8,301 bytes)
3. Re: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 16:53:07 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"; Really..the perspective is something I always need to keep in mind. If I didn't want aggravation, I'd just drive a Civic all the time. Hell, my Miata was a reliable little Japanese/LBC, but it wasn't; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00072.html (9,329 bytes)
4. Re: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 17:44:40 -0700; Yikes! Wasn't there actually a driver in a race killed in just this fashion by the bonnet of his TR3? Or was that tale apocryphal? Geo Hahn 59 TR3A; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00079.html (7,789 bytes)
5. RE: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 15:06:03 -0400; Your post was terrific! A bit of humor whilst engaging this hobby goes a long way, doesn't it? Crying and laughing along with you, Gary '75 TR6 Remanufacture Completed lot. and much; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00106.html (8,112 bytes)
6. Re: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 20:47:51 -0700; I had the exact same thing happen to my 60 TR3 years ago except I was running about 55 and it didn't hit my head. It just went flat against the windshield and snapped a hinge just ahead of the hinge; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00128.html (8,921 bytes)
7. Re: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 17:49:14 -0700; Not much chance of that happening on a Spitfire! :) Joe Curry -- "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00130.html (9,843 bytes)
8. re: lesson from drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 22:15:58 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"; Years ago, I had a similar experience with my '59 TR3a. I had just replaced both bonnet hinges ($25 each in the mid-1970's from an Atlanta British car yard but still quite expensive for a college kid; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00136.html (8,744 bytes)
9. Re: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:01:42 -0400 (EDT); Maybe not. Maybe the Spit's bonnet is too heavy to do what a Herald bonnet almost did to me many, many years ago. I'd just gotten the "replacment" bonnet primed and mounted onto my Herald, but Mr. Wa; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00139.html (9,100 bytes)
10. Re: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 20:30:45 -0700; Probably a combination of the "airplane wing" effect and the air being funneled into the engine compartment through the radiator opening. I'd love to have been a casual observer! :) Joe -- "If you c; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00141.html (10,248 bytes)
11. Re: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 10:33:49 -0400; I remember my old GT6 (well it was new then) used to get very light on its front tires at around 80-85 mph. When passing large trucks pushing a lot of wind in front of them, it was touch-and-go wheth; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00157.html (10,040 bytes)
12. RE: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:46:07 -0700charset="iso-8859-1"; A TR3A hood will also "sail" at freeway speeds with no hinges. Not high enough to be a real problem, but certainly high enough to be scary. Randall - "Threw the Tshirt away ... it was stained <g>"; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00175.html (8,351 bytes)
13. RE: Lesson From Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 11:52:48 -0600; So did my '69 TR6's bonnet until I replaced the locking mechanism. .....Bob mailto:bob@nwstar.com http://www.nwstar.com/~tr6; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00178.html (7,793 bytes)
14. Lesson from Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:29:43 -0400; Nothing's changed - my TR6 gets light like that at around 100-105..... I mean, I think it might...not that I've ever driven it that fast.... Dennis Culligan /'76 TR6 CF57948U - TR6IUMPH/ Highland/ DN; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00188.html (8,087 bytes)
15. Re: Lesson from Drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 17:52:49 -0600; It does, at least mine does, but the air dam, or reverse spoiler that I have beneath the frnt bumper helps considerably, I think. At least I have no problems with the air pressure when I pass semi's; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00197.html (7,701 bytes)
16. Re: lesson from drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 08:15:55 -0500; Been There, Done That! When I bought my tr3a some idiot who didn't have a key to the hood replaced the locks with "pop machine" security locks. These are not ment to handle the wind stress. at 40 MPH; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00236.html (9,420 bytes)
17. Re: lesson from drive #2 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 12:45:00 -0400; When my 57's bonnet blew off somewhere on Long Island a long, long time ago, the woman driver following me drove over it, even though there were clear lanes on both sides! I remember jumping up and d; /html/triumphs/1999-10/msg00239.html (7,909 bytes)

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