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Caption should read "Leaving Carlisle PA after long Speedster Weekend." I dragged Dale's Red MGTD up one year from DC and we stopped near Carlisle for gas - a local farmer said "oh you guys are here, I've got to get back home and plant the garden, as rain is surely coming". He wasn't wrong - that year all were flooded in at the Marriott.
Been there, swum that......
I've always liked how the headlights are half full of water in that picture.
Sure hope they were wearing galoshes...
This is no fun and friken scary as hell. The rain blows back to the inside of the windshield and wipers do nothing for that...Been there, done that!
Nothing like pulling up to a red light driving a speedster an having to lift both feet as a tidal wave comes forward.....
Carlisle 07 was just like that, following Lane making you turns all night on E!
Thank goodness for that little shimmy sponge we all got.
Good Times!
I did a bunch of "windshield sponges" for the Carlisle raffle (if I'm thinking of the same thing - I think I made over a dozen over a couple of years), and a lot of people looked at it, even with the pithy description of what it was for, as a throw-away until their windshield fogged up on the inside and they used it out of desperation. Then, Lo and Behold! The darn things de-mist that glass like magic. All it is, is a non-cellulous sponge wrapped in a coat of real Chamois and sewn up. I think "Eddie Baeur"(sp?) used to get $20 bucks for the same thing.
I've still got one left (the prototype) right under Pearl's driver's seat. Works great!
Stan Galat, '05 IM, 2276, Nowhere, USA posted:I've always liked how the headlights are half full of water in that picture.
I like how Speedster drivers are always optimists.
Those headlights are half full - not half empty.
actually if U look that is Michael Phelps driving,,,im wondering if he has the windshield wipers on
Real men don't need windshield wipers......
Even with windshield wipers, it takes real men to drive a Speedster -- just sayin'
That's because even when they are working, they don't work. And . . .
I have proven that you only get wet in a Speedster in the rain (with the top down) if you stop. Above about 40 or 50, with the full tonneau buttoned up on the right side, I'm tellin' ya, it ain't so bad.
PS: Love that pic, seen it before. Properly captioned . . .
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Gordon wrote: Real men don't need windshield wipers.....
Tom Blankinship can tell you his story of inop wipers on the PA Tpk. and being totally blinded with big trucks around him ~
....and no shoulder to pull off on. Not an experience I want to repeat.
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I meant Sham-Wow, aka chamois sponge...That thing saved me that night, Thanks!
add suds and one has the making of a full cold tub- how sad.
Dude, can you pass that lighter again?