First highway run

GR. Troy Sloan in Cali makes some very nice "cruisin' windows" that plug right into the side curtain holes in the door top. I've never used them so I don't know how much wind is cut down @ 70 mph but they should remove the side blast. Could be used with a home made rear wind deflector to calm things down a bit. Do a search and it should pop right up.

Here is the link.  https://www.speedsterowners.com...dows-available-again

High res. pictures here---> http://kvan.hopto.org/Speedster/CruzinWindows.htm

Great to get that shake-down cruise under your belt! Its a confidence builder as far as having no qualms in driving that bad boy anywhere! Glad to hear you both enjoyed some top-down cruising. 

Here's a couple pics from our time cruising the Rockies a few years ago out of Loveland and through Fort Collins. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip around Colorado (including Denver and Colorado Springs).

Jim,

My brother and sister-in-law got married in that church in '70. And you should see it in early summer when the snows are still on the peaks...awesome! That highway is a great 'top down' drive. I assume y'all were either going to or coming from Estes Park? Either way it is one great drive.

Big Thompson canyon, hwy 34 east out of Estes to Loveland, following the Big Thompson river used to be a hoot drive in either direction from the canyon mouth up or down, not so much anymore, sadly, since the floods in '77 wiped out most of the lower portions of the old roadway and the flood a couple years ago really tore it up and the CDOT since has reworked the roadway and the river basin. Still an enjoyable drive though...just not as much fun as it used to be until you get to the upper canyon.

Al and Troy, I really like Troy's 'cruzin' windows' but he even states they are not made for CMC's and that is what I own.

Besides 'they ain't as "original" as wind wings would be'(being sarcastic...LOL)

There was actually a wedding going on at that church while we were taking those pics. We had lunch in Estes Park and spent the night in Loveland.  We were visiting some friends, Dusty & Sharon Johnson, and had a great time checking out Pleasant Valley Saddle Works.

I think I read that some of the buildings by that church were destroyed by that flood a couple of years ago. What a shame!

On the way to CO we stopped in Moab, UT, to say "Hey'" to a few Range Rover friends 4-wheeling there. Also did a sunset cruise through Arches National Park (spectacular).

saw this morning a pair of wind wings mounted on a 356 and remembered your post.  here are the pics...  they looked nice.

Lfepardo, thanks gives me some ideas for the mounts. I've cut out a cardboard template for the Lexan...and think it may work. The template is very similar to those on the coupe.

Gary

There is that dash-mounted center radio thing again.  Late '40s early '50s version, bent window car.  this one is beautiful, and must be worth a fortune.

I think the wind-wings are a cool idea. I'd like to see how they come out, Gerry.

I'd be curious to see the way it mounts to the windshield frame.