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RE: MGA Hood Horse Hair (?!?)

To: "'mgs@autox.team.net'" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: MGA Hood Horse Hair (?!?)
From: "Unger, Larry @ MAN" <UNGERL@Reston.UnisysGSG.COM>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 96 15:33:00 EDT
>I have been told that, originally, MGAs had a pad of horse
>hair/felt glued to the wood board in the very end of the hood.
>When you closed the hood this pad laid across the radiator
>and prevented the air from going above the radiator and forced
>it to go through the radiator thus increasing the cooling.
>Moss people knew about the pad but don't carry it.  Anyone
>still have this pad?
>
... contact Todd Clarke, of Clarke Spares & Restorations, at
(215) 348-0595 ... his stocks a reproduction of this and many
other hard to find bits for the 'A' ... if you don't have his catalog
ask him to send you one.

Safety Fast,

Larry Unger
'62 MGA MkII Roadster

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