Miata Mailing List: January 1997, Message #86
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Subject: Re: Driving in the rain (was RPMs & Downshifting)

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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:23:44 -0500 "John Freas"  writes:

>Previously on Driving in the rain, SAMUEH01@MCRCR6.MED.NYU.EDU (Herb 

>Samuels)

>said...

>

>> If it begins to rain very hard its possible to use your right hand 

>to lift

>up the 

>> top at 50 mph and latch it.

>

I tried to put the top down on my first Miata once, going less than 30

mph, slowing and coming up to a stoplight. It nearly ripped my arm off,

and I decided to wait until I was fully stopped to put the top down from

then on. I'm also too wimpy to even raise the top from the driver's seat,

let alone at 50 mph! Yikes!



Nonetheless, I have found that driving in the rain, top down, is a unique

sort of thrill. Other drivers look at you like you're crazy, but it's

really quite fun, and as long as you're going 50 mph or more and it's a

light to medium rain, you don't get terribly wet.



Cleaning the raindrop marks off the inside of the windshield and the

rearview mirror is a bummer, though!

--Les and George, who are used to people looking at them like they're

crazy.

Nevada, MO (100 mi. south of Kansas City near the Kansas line)