I quite agree, Tim, better to drive the car with the hood up, than not at all.
I did my trip to the Le Mans Classic this year and had the roof on all the
time- I had the passenger seat and footwell full of camping gear and didn't
want to have anything whipped out by the slipstream. Also the weather was not
at it's best, which would have meant erecting the hood every night anyway.
Given that many of those in Audi's survey have probably got modern cars, with
electric hoods, it does seem perverse that they never go topless.
Gerry
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:28:13 +0100
Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Audi survey
From: t...@lambdapi.plus.com
To: mogta...@listbox.com
Over the last few days I've been driving my Mog quite a lot with the hood up,
mainly because I've been carting stuff around that I don't really want on open
display when I leave the car parked, and with the weather being changeable it's
easier to put the hood up and down that wrestle with the tonneau cover. On a
couple of short trips I've left the hood up even when it's not been raining,
and do you know what? It's not bad at all!
It's undoubtedly true that a Morgan with the top down is a vastly more pleasant
experience, but that doesn't mean that a Mog with the hood up is an unpleasant
experience, far from it.
I know full well from many years Morgan ownership that the 'hood down at all
times' thing is usually meant in a light-hearted way, I participate in the
banter myself, but I'm left a little concerned that some people might feel they
can't or shouldn't take their Morgan out with the hood up. I was particularly
disappointed one autumn evening a few years ago, when I attended a Noggin. The
weather was a bit rubbish, rainy and not what you'd call warm, so I put the
hood up and set off. The Noggin was packed, loads of people there, but sadly
mine was the only Morgan in the car park. Everyone else had come in other cars.
If people are using their tin tops instead of their Mogs just because the
weather's poor, then that's a sad state of affairs in my eyes.
Drive your Morgan. Enjoy it. Putting the hood up allows you to drive your
Morgan more and enjoy it more, then that IMO can only be a good thing.
Tim
On 13 September 2012 22:45, david taylor <davetaylor3...@googlemail.com> wrote:
If you don't put it up it won't leak either!
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Gerald Wallace <gerwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just read an article in MOG magazine. According to a survey conducted in August
by Audi, 64% of Britain's convertible owners either rarely or never take the
roof down!
MOG mag invites comments to edi...@mogmag.co.uk
Gerry
ps I'd guess 75% of Mog drivers never put it up in the first place.
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