Postby Hasbeen » 26 Jan 2009 00:30
Back in the 60s, when, in the rain, you put up the hood of my
Morgan+4, it did not seem to reduce the amount of water comming in,
it just reduced the number of places it came at you from.
My first couple of 7s, with folding roofs were like that. Every pot
hole you hit brought a squirt of water from under the things. I
rather enjoyed the memories it brought back, but after a 500 Km trip
in one of them, in the rain, you were very damp.
My current car has a twin glass panel pop up sunroof. It is really
quite brilliant. With the drivers window 3/4 open, & one sunroof
panel popped, the ventilation is excellent. It is draft free cooling
in hot weather, but it's in the wet that it really shines.
So long as you don't drop below 50KPH, you can leave one up, & no
water comes in. With the drivers window open about 1/5Th, very
little water comes in, particularly at speed, [much less than with
the sunroof closed], & the windscreen, & all other glass is kept fog
free. This is a pretty good trick, when we can get 100% humidity,
30oC temp, with an inch per hour rain. After a recent 500Km drive,
in moderate to heavy rain, I was remarkably dry, as was the inside
of the car.
It takes an hour or two work, every few months to keep the thing
from leaking, when standing in the rain, but its well worth it.
Hasbeen
