RE: 'Open Season': PH Goes Topless For Winter

[Agent Orange]

Petrolhead_Rich said:

Garlick said:

Bored? Never, but while Will enjoys towing stranded cars with the Defender (he actually did) we'll be driving roof down

You can unbolt the defender roof quite easily, that would be proper British topless motoring!!

(You can also go tow people out!!!)

Love this thread!

Yes you can unbolt a Defender roof easily. Getting it off the Landy is something else - though that might have had something to do with me being 8 and more of a hindrance than a help to my father.

I also seem to remember a fair old amount of swearing when it went back on too.

Maybe go for the SAS Landy look?

Edited by Agent Orange on Friday 3rd December 14:47

[Stuart]

Fane said:

Has to be done...

Do you have any other option though?

[neil_bolton]

and a very st video but shows the commitment...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neil_bolton/425036014...

[.Mark]

Garlick said:

Before someone posts it, here is a picture of me with the roof up in the sunshine.....along with a Griff doing much the same.

I'm sorry, genuinely.

We're used to it

Will join in the fun too once I can get the car out the garage.

[Stuart]

Not my car, and it was taken a couple of years ago, but bloomin 'eck was it cold.

[977]

Challenge accepted, I'll see if I can get the TVR out tomorrow. As far as I'm concerned, torrential rain and dodgy neighbourhoods, are the only excuse for having the top up.

In the mean time:


[edited for image fail.]

Edited by 977 on Friday 3rd December 14:14

[a11y_m]

I've endangered my life so many times with the wife - she hates having teh roof down unless it's +20degC, i.e. never in Scotland. She's got this theory that the only person happy driving in a car with the roof down is the driver, and insists that the passenger(s) ALWAYS look miserable. Tough, I say. WTF's the point of a roadster if you don't put the roof down???

The shiny ground is black ice, I fell on my arse exiting the car for this pic, -3degC IIRC:


And me being a dick and ignoring the "Road may be unpassable in winter conditions" sign, and being faced with this 5 miles later down a singletrack road

[Jobbo]

-3? Pah, it was -8.5 with the roof off on my journey to work today. I accessorised my suit with a scarf and woolly hat.

[Stuart]

a11y_m said:

She's got this theory that the only person happy driving in a car with the roof down is the driver, and insists that the passenger(s) ALWAYS look miserable.

My wife is definitely smiling in that pic.

[OlberJ]

Snow you say?




Videos too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYF3sKfliSA

[a11y_m]

Jobbo said:

-3? Pah, it was -8.5 with the roof off on my journey to work today. I accessorised my suit with a scarf and woolly hat.

Yeah I know, shocking

Worst I've experienced was a heavy hail shower - temperature was fine as was driving at 40mph+. It certainly encourages you to overtake any slower cars sooner rather than later as the hail fecking hurt...

[a11y_m]

Stuart said:

a11y_m said:

She's got this theory that the only person happy driving in a car with the roof down is the driver, and insists that the passenger(s) ALWAYS look miserable.

My wife is definitely smiling in that pic.

I've told mine she's wrong, but as you know wives are rarely never wrong.

[mash]

In the S when my ex GF lost the roof I drove down to Dorset in some of the heaviset rain I have ever experienced. When I arrived there was an inch of water slopping around in the footwells. Needless to say I was somewhat damp too.

I have the roof off the Chim most mornings, but chickened out recently. Maybe I should use this time off work to go and dig a tunnel to the garage instead of doing this......

Great thread BTW, will post pics soon.

[RichB]

adycav said:

Cock Womble 7 said:

adycav said:

I had my sunroof open today, does that count?

No.

Don't see why not - that Fiat 500 is only a saloon with a large sunroof, hardly wind in your hair motoring is it!

[Garlick]

OlberJ said:

Snow you say?

You seem to be missing the rear of your car?

[JamieBeeston]

Garlick said:

OlberJ said:

Snow you say?

You seem to be missing the rear of your car?

Free flow exhaust mod?

[Agent Orange]

Garlick said:

OlberJ said:

Snow you say?

You seem to be missing the rear of your car?

Midway through a v6 conversion

[MantaMike]

From our European road trip a couple of years ago.. somewhere in a very cold Czech Republic.

[OlberJ]

Garlick said:

OlberJ said:

Snow you say?

You seem to be missing the rear of your car?

Do you know, i thought it felt a bit light at the back end.

Edited by OlberJ on Friday 3rd December 16:55

[Cock Womble 7]

Hey, where's the "open-topped" graphic thingy next to my long-running thread?