Miata Mailing List: November 1995, Message #50
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   From: Phredd 
Subject: Might as well leave the top down.
   Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 16:17:55 -0500

'Drove my car in the wet for the first time today. 'Can't say it made me 
feel like Gene Kelly. "I'm siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitin' in the 
rain" would not have been as popular a set of song lyrics, I'd venture to say. 

The top leaks. You wouldn't say it leaks badly. You wouldn't say that 
unless you were sitting in one of the seats inside while it's raining 
outside. There's a fairly constant drip from the breaks in the weather 
stripping on either side where the top folds back when you put it down. 
It drips right onto my upper arm. I imagine the other side would drip 
right onto my wife's upper hip.

I mention this because I think I saw a recent post wherein someone had a 
simple solution for this malady. I didn't save the post because it didn't 
occur to me that it was something I'd be facing in a car with fewer than 
15M miles on it. Wrongamundo, barometer breath. 

Actually I'm not even *absolutely* sure I really saw such a posting. 
Sometimes I think I have water on the brain, too. But, if somebody really 
did make such a posting (and, you know who you are), please post it again 
or email it to me. It's a real pain in the neck trying to steer while 
balancing a bucket on my shoulder.

Keep the Revs up!

Phredd

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Fred Donour, Jr.
XCIII Red A - (Li'l Darlin')

Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Virginia
License plate (rear only, of course): "MX-5"
Team MCA (theoretically) ~ Team Voodoo (modified)

God's Miata is Red!