Speedster Required equipment

There is a guy north of me in New Hampshire that owns this get-up.  He wasn't wearing it the last time I saw him but it was in the car.

What no silk white scarf?  Cory had a similar outfit - required by his minimal plexi windshield. I have one of these but sure is hard to keep on at speed (haven't had issue sitting in garage!)

Let me, one again, endorse this "getup."

The Halcyon Mark goggles with the split lens are the thing to have when running a cut-down perspex (or other) windscreen, and they're boffo as well when motoring top-down in temperatures below 50F. Add the matching "Snoopy Hat" with wool lining and a weathered leather bomber jacket with a zip-out lining, plus a pair of good gauntlets (ski gloves will work--but they're always the wrong color) and one can speed around blissfully in any open car even as the temperature dips into the 30s. 

Plus you look the part. 

Never has appropriate period fashion so perfectly meshed with absolute function. 

Yes and it does wonders to keep your scalp from hurting and wonders for your hair when you take it off, hence a needed cap when you stop and go somewhere

This is my cold weather driving gear.  Nowhere near as cool looking, but it gets the job done.

No skidoo suit  

here is the link to the equipment FYI 

http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop...x?PlateIndexID=30648

Actually I now have a roadster that has been made for a tall torso so finally my head is below the windscreen so I am good but it would be very period correct for you speedster guys.

I do use the white scarf -- and silk it is too.

Roy too.

BTW, the Mark 6 and Mark 9 Halcyons are more like $100 (or even $85) than the $200 Moss wants. I got my leather flight helmet three years ago for about $65 from an online vender called Ragwings and Tailwheels, but that seems to be defunct now & I don't see anything of similar quality out there on the inner webs just now.

Ed you might find this site to your liking and they even have a tartan scarf for you to use in the winter time....  

http://classicpartsltd.com/black-leather-helmet.html

There is also this supplier that seems quite good 

http://www.classicgoggles.com/...egory_Code=flyerhats

Yeah, that's the hat you see out there now: zip ears. Cotton lining. Mine's velcro ears (not as cool; not period) and some kind of synthetic fuzz/fur lining that is very warm. It also has a long "mullet"-like neck flap. That's the key. You see a lot of these that strap under the chin and leave a big ol' gap above your collar. You don't want that part of your head to be cold, and on a chilly day, it will be.

I drove in 35 degree F weather for an hour with the top down and my hat and my throat area was certainly pretty frozen... I guess I need one of your scarfs Ed.

In the fall and winter months I do usually roll with the tartan scarf (red, of course), and a mock turtleneck. It is the only way to go when driving 200+ miles in mid-late October on the mid-atlantic seaboard.

Speaking of which: You guys--some of you guys--ought to do the Air & Auto Classic next year in VA Beach. This is a PCA event at a private airfield that is devoted to war birds--which they fly during the show and sometimes give rides in. Some really nice alloy there & a nice ride to-and-fro. In-town hotels are cheap too, post-season. And they now have a "best replica" category that is rumored to be very easy to win.

The only part of me that gets really cold, when driving in cold weather, is my hands, no matter what type of glove I wear. 

This wasn't a problem 10 years ago.......old age rears it's ugly head again.

Time for a pair of heated gloves.

Something like this:    http://www.precisiontandems.co...nierheatedgloves.htm