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I took a little roadtrip this morning to avoid some honey-dos that had been building up. Dropped the top and drove over to visit my buddy Dave and check on the progress of his TR8 and Lotus Esprit. The Esprit is an '88, turbo 4-banger. Dave let me drive it. What a thrill, what a screamer. He has the engine bay on the TR8 sprayed with Emron and will be starting his custom, simplified wiring harness. After looking at the wiring diagram for the 8, I can see why he wants to simplify. At any rate, time to go home and face the music, she should be home from mass. Well, the skies opened up and I knew I only had one redlight on the 4-lane between Dave's house and the 45 miles to my home. It rained cats and dogs and Miatas. Let her rip. The faster I drove, the dryer I stayed. People in their 2-ton SUVs thought I was nuts. It was wonderful. The skies cleared as I pulled off the road to my little town. That's what an LBC is for. A cure for insanity.

Bill
 
Funny, my article for my column on Friday was about driving classics in the rain -- also noting that convertibles tend to have a speed at which the rain doesn't hit you.

We had 33 days in a row of rain out here -- a record. I tried driving my '69 Corvette two weeks ago and got it sideways leaving a parking lot because it was so slick!
 
Non-stop in the rain is a great and almost dry ride. In the desert we get thunderstorms that rain buckets but last only minutes and cover only a couple of square miles. My first choice if I can't miss them is to keep moving -- sometimes help to slide down in the seat like when it's just the aeroscreen on there. Yes, 'normal' people don't get it.
 
What do you mean. I consider myself to be perfectly normal and I totally understand /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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