Oh, yeah, you're right... I guess in my case the paint is already so bad I
wouldn't even blink.
I remember once riding the Washington State ferry to Bremerton. Nice summer
day, top down, my buddies and I (yeah, three of us in a B -- college kids)
on deck sightseeing. The captain blows the whistle, so we go below to
prepare to disembark, since we are parked near the front, just inside.The
boat docks, the gate opens, and we start to roll out... just as a Puget
Sound squall hits. The driver is frantically looking for a place to pull
over and rig the top, but we're in the middle of the flood of cars getting
off the ferry. A big fat raindrop hits me square in the eye and knocks out
my contact lens. Inside of two minutes we're parked and scrambling to get
the top up, but there is already half an inch of standing water in the
footwells. Just as we're doing up the header clamps, the sun reappears.
Clothes and carpet soaked and steaming, contact lens lost forever.
Yeah, I love that stowaway top... really. <g>
on 6/1/05 10:27 AM, Dodd, Kelvin at doddk@mossmotors.com wrote:
> Max:
>
> You left out swinging the assembled bows over the car and watching the
> post on the other side of the car rip the paint off the body as the bows
> start to fall apart.
>
>
>
> Kelvin Dodd
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf
>> Of Max Heim
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:58 AM
>> To: MG List
>> Subject: Re: stowaway top needed / hoods
>>
>> 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...
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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