Convertible Driving Re: Why?? Re: <VV> convertible question

[henry kaczmarek]

Convertible guys

Since I am having enough trouble getting a hardtop finished, a convertible 
Corvair is probably long in my future, if at all.

But I was wondering how many Converts also came with AC???

One of the things I enjoy is driving my 83 Riviera Convertible in the summer 
with the windows up, top down,  and the air on---probably makes me look like 
an idiot, but it's comfortable and I don't care.  Also drive it in the 
winter with the top down, windows up and the heat on.  Same situation.

HANK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <FrankCB@aol.com>
To: <airvair@richnet.net>
Cc: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: Convertible Driving Re: Why?? Re: <VV> convertible question


> In a message dated 2/15/05 4:42:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> airvair@richnet.net writes:
> <SNIP>I've found that convertibles are really only most comfortable at 
> dusk,
> but that's just my preference. Some people are sun bunnies, and drive
> with the top down any time it's not raining.<SNIP>
> Mark,
>    I'm with you on that.  Much of my top down convertible driving was done
> at dusk and at night or on cloudy days.  I remember the first time I 
> stopped it
> traffic with the top down in New York City in the summer at night and felt
> heat coming down on me.  Surprised, I looked up and found a highway 
> overpass
> above me that was radiating heat (absorbed during the sunny day) back down 
> on me
> at night.
>    In the bright hot sun, I frequently drove with the top UP but with the
> back window DOWN to improve the ventilation since I never had A/C in any 
> of my
> convertibles.  Actually the back window down had some other advantages.  I
> remember when my wife went out with a neighbor and our 2 little boys to 
> buy 2
> Christmas trees and ended up with both trees stuffed into the car through 
> the back
> window opening.  Of course, that time of year it was a bit cool driving in
> NYC with the back window down<GGGG>
>    Thanks for reminding me,
>    Frank Burkhard
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