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Posted: June 04 2008 05:36 PM
 
Ken Springhorn (aka REBORN55) [ View ] [ reborn55@msn.com ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ]
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Getting ready for trip to Indy. Will have top down sometime over the weekend(weather permitting). Wife has strange concept of driving with the top down and the windows up.(doesn't want to mess hair up) told her no way--top down/windows down. How about you guys and gals--any preferences. Just for fun.
 
 
 
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Posted by bigdude  -  06/04/2008 05:48 PM
I dont know but seeing that car makes me wish I would have kept my 48 ragtop!
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Posted by Ghengis  -  06/04/2008 05:51 PM
Seeing convertibles, T-top cars and or jeeps with the tops down or off and windows drives me nuts. I say you either want a convertible or you don't.


My $.02
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Posted by REBORN55  -  06/04/2008 05:52 PM
I am just having some fun with the question. took the wife and 2 grand daughters for a ride Sunday and it was too windy for the youngsters in back seat. Wife tried rolling windows up and we kind of joked about it
Ken [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] De soto, Illinois
 
Posted by jimmothershead  -  06/04/2008 06:07 PM
Rosina would only cruize if the top drops. We wear red Air Ride hats. Back in the day it was choppers, Vettes, roadsters, ski boats.

Oh, yeah, she has been around since 1958.......

See ya at 35th Nats East this week
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Posted by jimmothershead  -  06/04/2008 06:07 PM
Nice ride !! How much ?
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Posted by driver48  -  06/04/2008 06:19 PM
I love it. I've got (2) 48 chevy sedans and love them. I really wish I had a convertible. Hope to see you in Indy, if you are here thursday afternoon there is a kick off party in greenwood at a muscle car museum that is worth the trip.
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Posted by DaveHughes  -  06/04/2008 06:23 PM
I keep mine down whenever I can-If yours is like most rod convertibles it is as noisy with the top up as it is down... I know all that I have had were. Most conv-cabriolet owners will tell you the same ( if there tellin the truth) nice car!!
DaveHughes [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] seaman, Ohio
 
Posted by meangene  -  06/04/2008 07:23 PM
the first time i had the 37 out at the frog follies had no top yet and the wife being a hair dresser did her hair before we went to the fair grounds ,we took off and the first thing i saw was her reaching for this blue plastic grocery bag to put on her head as not to mess her hair,do i have to say what i said,the hair got messed so windows up is not that bad(yea rite)!!!!
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Posted by Red's Place Custom & Restoration  -  06/04/2008 08:26 PM
get yourself a ragtop, put the top down let your hair blow in the wind while you still got hair to let blow. Have had a convertible since 1970 until a few years ago. Really miss the hot days in the afternoon when we would just go ride with the top down in the cool evening breese. Nice car enjoy indy
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Posted by gman0046  -  06/04/2008 08:56 PM
Dave, you should have bought my 46 Ford Convertible. It had a Hartzcloth top with a headliner. No noise at all.
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Posted by DaveHughes  -  06/04/2008 09:27 PM
gman a 46-7-8 ford convertible will likely be in my future.. you had a dandy and I dont believe i have seen it since you sold it?? where did that thing go?
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Posted by DavyJ  -  06/04/2008 09:30 PM
Top down.....windows down.....it's the only way to ride.
Still driving the wife's car, cause I am slow. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Niagara Falls, Canada Charter Member since February 2005
 
Posted by ahotrod33  -  06/05/2008 06:17 AM
Windows up????? What windows??????
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Posted by cr55  -  06/05/2008 07:54 AM
Got a friend with a Chevelle convertible, I don't think he's ever had the top up!.GOOD LOOKING RAGTOP KEN...........CR
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Posted by dakotah  -  06/05/2008 08:25 AM
Reminds me of a gal I used to know ,liked riding w/her top downLOL
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Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  06/05/2008 12:49 PM
aw come on now. most of you guys dont care because you aint got no hair until you sunburn that dome .
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Posted by mb  -  06/05/2008 12:57 PM
Windows down and the boot on too. Had three convertables and always took time to put the boot on too.
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Posted by PurpleFlameGuy  -  06/05/2008 01:31 PM
Top down,windows down. I drive a highboy roadster no windows and top is at home in the garage. Last year I drove 65 miles home from York in a thunderstorm.No top.Just drive fast, you don't get wet, but if you have to stop it is rough. But you should have seen the thumbs-up I got from everyone, Not just rodders. Drive Em, And be safe, Den
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Posted by gman0046  -  06/05/2008 01:58 PM
Dave, that 46 Ford Convertible was a great rust free all steel car that sat just right. It had the best of everything. It went to Alabama. I haven't seen it since I sold either. Probably should have kept it. I can chalk it up to one of the many mistakes I've made. My 56 Bel Air is anothersuper car that may be up for sale in the near future. I just don't know what I want to drive next.
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Posted by DaveHughes  -  06/05/2008 02:58 PM
that 46 was a super nice car- But so is your 56- it would be hard to find a better one. Are you goin back pre 48 or ?? I think I am gonna sell my bike and c5 vette convertible and buy me another pre 48 DRIVER with no shiney stuff underneath. I am so sick of the trailering thing -yet dont want to clean it up underneath everytime i go around the block..had my fill of that..
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Posted by gman0046  -  06/05/2008 03:23 PM
Dave, I might go back to pre 48 just not sure yet. If I do it will be something thats a driver, doesn't have to be shiney anywhere, just comfortable with out all the fuss. The trailering has got to get old fast not to mention the high cost of diesel for your big Ford truck.
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Posted by 30 A pickup  -  06/05/2008 09:26 PM
When I built my 46 Ford convertible, I had it driveable. The interior was not done yet (no top either). I left my house at 6:00 am to go to GoodGuys in Charlotte, 75 miles away. Had a blast!! Came home about 11:00 that night, cold again. Oh yeah, it was 28 degrees!!! That is the only time I ran with the windows up. Still did not help much. It was COLD!!!!!!!!!


Lynn
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Posted by dixie  -  06/05/2008 11:39 PM
TOP DOWN WINDOWS UP IS A SURE SIGN OF OLD AGE. iTS SO DAM HOT DOWN HERE I PUT THE TOP BACK ON.
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Posted by TYCHOOCHOO  -  06/06/2008 02:32 PM
Hey Dixie I heard today that it hit 98-99 this week down there. I noticed when I was there that most FL people that stay there year round have hard tops at least where I was. Just something I noticed. ...Tommy
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