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Just Getting Started
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Simple but basic question from a fledgling +8 owner who inherited the car in the Summer so has never messed with the hood or side screen's.
Yes, yes I know some of you will be driving around this Winter with the hood down through sleet and snow. However for the more delicate amongst us can the car be driven with the hood up and screen's off as a happy compromise? Any risk of it taking flight over 50mph?
Would welcome opinion on other's experiences.
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Roadster Guru Member of the Inner Circle
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Roof down & sidescreens on. Half tonneau in place, and wrap up well. Some of the best days are early morning with a clear blue sky and frost on the ground. It's really good.
DaveW
'05 Red Roadster S1
'16 Yellow (Not the only) Narrow AR GDI Plus 4
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Salty Sea Dog Member of the Inner Circle
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I, and a pal of mine, will drive with hood up sidescreens off.
Has to be very cold / very wet (or moderately wet if SWMBO is in car) for me to put sidescreens on...
Cheers,
Graham (G4FUJ)
Sold L44FOR 4/4 Giallo Fly
'09 Gen2 MINI Cooper ragtop
'90 LR 90 SW
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Talk Morgan Expert
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I LOVE driving the race car with the roof up and side screens off... always makes me feel really vintage 
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Talk Morgan Enthusiast
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Hood up, side screans off is my favourite set up. I like the look of the car with this arrangement although it is far from cosy, plenty of breeze gets in. I would not like a motorway journey set up like this too much buffeting.
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Moderate or good, occasionally poor Talk Morgan Addict
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Moderate or good, occasionally poor Talk Morgan Addict
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You've just got me thinking... what ever happened to my side screens?
2011 Morgan 4/4
1932 Austin 7 Chummy
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Part of the Furniture
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Part of the Furniture
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Roof down & sidescreens on. Half tonneau in place, and wrap up well. Some of the best days are early morning with a clear blue sky and frost on the ground. It's really good. the same here.  but I have never tried it 'the other way'. (ah! that reminds me of a joke........)
Steve A11OGE Red 1989 4/4 4 seater
'A Morgan is for life, not just for Sundays'
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Salty Sea Dog Member of the Inner Circle
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... always makes me feel really vintage You'll have an allotment next... 
Graham (G4FUJ)
Sold L44FOR 4/4 Giallo Fly
'09 Gen2 MINI Cooper ragtop
'90 LR 90 SW
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Goodwood Drifter Talk Morgan Addict
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when the sun is hitting hard,  you have to ride hood up/sidescreens down, otherwise you end up like Boshly, errrr, like a cooked lobster I mean,  and sadly then you also have to speed to keep it cool that's why Hopwood has airco in his Aero8, he's not allowed to speed  all names possible link-able to members of this forum are pure coinsidence and should not be taken personal 
Steven
sold: M3W, Aeromax,V6, 4/4 4seater
now: +fourLM62
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Learner Plates Off!
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Learner Plates Off!
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Hood up, side screens off is a very pleasant way to travel.
But when it gets cold and wet, whilst I admire everyone who wears waterproofs to keep dry and/or rugs and eccentric head wear to keep warm, I simply put the roof up and sidescreens on.
Brian
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