[alfa] Re: Re: Tops

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Smith's heaters. If your Healey had one of those pathetic cylindrical 
models with the two half-moon shaped doors like the one fitted to my 
old Jag, it would keep the right side of your right foot warm for the 
first 50 miles, after that, forget it (of course, by the 50 mile 
marker, the Jag had already broken down, so I guess the Brits would 
consider a heater that worked longer than the car would run to be a 
milestone of reliability). My old Giulietta Sprint (which I wished I 
still had) didn't have much of a heater either, but at least it would 
warm the cockpit - eventually, and it actually could demist the 
windshield! I always thought it ironic that the British who lived in a 
northern climate with fairly cold, raw, and wet winters, couldn't make 
a heater as good as the Italians who lived in a much milder climate.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'
(CA Lic# 'TIPO116')




On Nov 21, 2004, at 11:23 AM, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:56:30 -0700
> From: "John S." <roadtrip999@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: [alfa] Re: Tops (NAC)
>
> George - I believe the logic behind the poor convertible top design 
> was that
> Jag knew the Lucas electrics wouldn't work in the rain anyway.  Seemed
> little point in putting a lot of British "hardest-way" engineering 
> into the
> top. BTW, my old Austin Healey 100 was the same way. The most pathetic
> excuse for a convertible top that I have ever seen. And don't start me 
> on
> the utterly worthless heater.
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