Preferring open top motoring in the winter. Madness?
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I do despair with the general population and what they are prepared to quote as if it's fact. Bell's palsy is damage to the 7th cranial nerve, known as the facial nerve and results in impaired function of the muscles of facial expression that it supplies. It can't effect any other area of the body such as the arm.
A stroke is characterised by damge to the brain, usually by haemorrhage or ischaemia (impaired blood supply) and can affect the face and the body, usually on the side opposite the damage.
Obviously, driving with your window down will not cause this! But don't take my word for it as I have only practiced medicine for 22 years😜
A stroke is characterised by damge to the brain, usually by haemorrhage or ischaemia (impaired blood supply) and can affect the face and the body, usually on the side opposite the damage.
Obviously, driving with your window down will not cause this! But don't take my word for it as I have only practiced medicine for 22 years😜
GC8 said:
I tried to go to work in my MX-5, but it was full of water. Not sure how this happened and Im debating whether to add antifreeze to each 3" deep puddle until I can sort it out.
No Winter open top motoring for me just yet...
Your roof water drains are blocked.No Winter open top motoring for me just yet...
They come out the sills in front of the rear arches, IIRC.
I usually enjoy frosty drives in the S2000, but for some reason I've not actually had a chance for a while.
The only thing I find is that my brain sometimes freezes and my reactions get slower after a while - it's weird.
Man of gas said:
I do despair with the general population and what they are prepared to quote as if it's fact. Bell's palsy is damage to the 7th cranial nerve, known as the facial nerve and results in impaired function of the muscles of facial expression that it supplies. It can't effect any other area of the body such as the arm.
A stroke is characterised by damge to the brain, usually by haemorrhage or ischaemia (impaired blood supply) and can affect the face and the body, usually on the side opposite the damage.
Obviously, driving with your window down will not cause this! But don't take my word for it as I have only practiced medicine for 22 years??
Thank you for your explanation. I'm just passing on what I was told by my GP (his diagnosis and its possible cause were supported by his colleagues). It is very difficult to differentiate between facial paralysis as a result of Bell's Palsy or following a stroke.A stroke is characterised by damge to the brain, usually by haemorrhage or ischaemia (impaired blood supply) and can affect the face and the body, usually on the side opposite the damage.
Obviously, driving with your window down will not cause this! But don't take my word for it as I have only practiced medicine for 22 years??
john2443 said:
MarshPhantom said:
Anyone on here?
No, but I drove my Spitfire all year round with the roof off unless it was raining, including when it had snowed. I did put it in the garage or put the roof up when it snowed though!(This was when it was my only car and wasn't a classic, it was only a few years old)
I came out one night to find my X-1/9 like that.
The leatherette on the seat cracked when I sat in it...after digging it out.
Patrick Bateman said:
Can anyone recommend decent gloves that aren't proper driving gloves but still give decent grip of the wheel?
I have a set of fleece gloves with really grippy rubber pads on the palms and index finger tip that I bought about 5 years ago from Decathlon for a fiver - anything similar is perfect down to well below zero.Yesterday I had the roof down. Car said 4.5 degrees, but the sun was out, the winter rubber is on and it has heated seats so it would have IMHO been some kind of crime not to.
I'm now 2 months into Boxster ownership. Along with the car I bought a hard top to use over winter. Quickly realised the joy of winter top down driving so sold the hard top on. With the heated seat on, decent russian hat on bonce and vents pointed to hands I'm finding it a joy.
Currently have the plastic rear screen soft top but replacing that with a glass version to allow me to drop hood when it's at freezing or below; happy days indeed.
Currently have the plastic rear screen soft top but replacing that with a glass version to allow me to drop hood when it's at freezing or below; happy days indeed.
In the 70s I ran a '34 Lanchester. No heater. Routinely froze. Recall one journey in the fog, screen wiped over with a potato but still froze, head out of the window to see where we were going, future parents-in-law in the back no doubt wondering what the heck....
More recently, a TR6. Heater, but not great. I guess with a decent heater it could be quite enjoyable.
In the TR6 I did once make a 100 mile journey with the top down in winter. After a few miles it was not enjoyable. Despite a (rear) wind deflector and a pompom hat and long Johns and two woolies and leather gloves and a flying jacket, I froze.
Started looking into heated gloves and heated seats, then decided there's a time for everything, and in a TR6, winter ain't it.
V8
More recently, a TR6. Heater, but not great. I guess with a decent heater it could be quite enjoyable.
In the TR6 I did once make a 100 mile journey with the top down in winter. After a few miles it was not enjoyable. Despite a (rear) wind deflector and a pompom hat and long Johns and two woolies and leather gloves and a flying jacket, I froze.
Started looking into heated gloves and heated seats, then decided there's a time for everything, and in a TR6, winter ain't it.
V8
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