oops. I should have read down one more post before I wrote mine about leaky sports cars...
-frank Keith Whaley wrote: > Having grown up owning a number of British sports cars, I remember the > honored "rain rags" all of my friends and I kept stuffed here and there > in our cars. > It was part of the mystique, and while a royal (s'cuse me) pain, it was > part of the experience, and one put up with it. > My first sports car was a 1957 Triumph TR-3. I took delivery in early > evening, and drove home in the dark and in a downpour, with the smell of > those leather seats and dash covering, and the pitiful little windscreen > wiper trying valiantly to keep the deluge wiped away! > Side curtains not quite sealing off the splashing from adjacent > motorcars, and just generally having the time of my life! Couldn't take > the grin off my face with a wood plane! > A succession of sports cars followed that one, and each provided a > little better weather sealing, but yes, they all DO do that! :-D > > Just like all Jaguar's leak oil from under the dash, onto your pants > leg. You put up with it or you trade off for more mundane > transportation! I'd rather put up with trying to seal the leak... > > keith whaley -- "Jazz is about capturing the moment" -Herbie Hancock
