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That’s really cool! Is that a surface warfare badge over the switches to the left of the steering wheel?
Vicenç - (bee sense)
Pembroke Pines, FL
1986 Aston - BCW Model 52 - "Montse II"(1983 FiberFab MiGi II - "Montse")
Surface Warfare? Good grief! NO! A THOUSAND TIMES, NO!
I am retired Navy, – spent 24 years in the SUBMARINE FORCE. They are SUBMARINE GOLD DOLPHINS.
(I started out, enlisted, on a WWII diesel boat and retired as an officer from Nukes.)Sorry, Roy! Didn’t mean to offend. I know how I get when people call me “soldier.”
Semper Fi!😉Vicenç - (bee sense)
Pembroke Pines, FL
1986 Aston - BCW Model 52 - "Montse II"(1983 FiberFab MiGi II - "Montse")
OMG!!!
I thought I was the only Jarhead on this site. I served in Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children (USMC) from 1958 till 1969. When were you in?BillBad Bill
Ed, it has been many moons since I had a Brooklands racing screen. As I recall, they mount on two posts that are mounted atop the hump in front of the driver. I believe they are designed for the screen to be easily removed by loosening two signings.
Is that right?
Do you remove yours when your windshield is up?There’s a couple stanchions that bolt into the top of the cowl and then a pinch thing to hold the swivel thing which is tightened with wing nuts.
It could be removed, maybe, without too much hassle but I’ve never moved them since I installed. If anyone asks why I’m looking through the Brooklands screens and the original windshield I tell them it’s an old car and it needs bifocals.Bill,
I was in from 1983 until 1993 and then in the Reserves until 1996. Quantico; Camp Pendleton; NAS Sigonella, Sicily; back to Quantico; and then Cherry Point.
Semper Fi, Brother!
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Vicenç - (bee sense)
Pembroke Pines, FL
1986 Aston - BCW Model 52 - "Montse II"(1983 FiberFab MiGi II - "Montse")
Hey Ed,
I love the line about the “old” car needing bifocals………hmm, my car is about 4 years younger than me so while I need progressive lenses, Emma can get by with bifocals….!!!!I got talked into saving some shipping costs and going in with Royal on an order to Moss…..so I’ll soon (Thursday) have a racing screen to install on Emma (my BCW). If you don’t mind, I’ll steal your line about bifocals — if I decide to keep the Brooklands racing screen installed behind the windshield.So it sure looks like there will be a few more tipped windshields, goggles and driving gloves (and Snoopy hats) at Carlisle this coming May….!!!!83 degrees here today and looking like good test drive weather of a fine new racing screen this weekend….JackBy the way, I’m also an “anchor klancker” Bubble Head Submarine Sailor (1968-1977 USS George C Marshall SSBN 654 Gold Crew). Anchors Aweigh to y’all —
(we really did not have an equivalent to ERAH!! like the Marines (run silent run deep and all that….)…..and never made it to the halls of Montezuma or to the shores of Tripoli……just Rota Spain and Holy Loch Scotland……and New London, CT.JackGood on ya, Jack! Of course everyone can use that line. At least until people start looking at you funny & spoiling for a fight.
Speaking of which….I been to New London. Got in a war once there at a place called the EL & Gee club.Band was called Pajama Slave Dancers.This did not make the country any safer. Free-er, maybe, but not safer.I had to stop, take a “well here goes” sigh and watched the you-tube video of the Pajama Slave Dancers —in a word — LOUD…….
And even more amazon is that this thread started with comments on the weight of a FiberFab kit — and has morphed into daydreaming about the good times in New London, CT…..with a lot of other non-related-to-Fiberfab-weight stuff– including some interesting stuff about Brooklands wind screens.…..What a great country!!! What a great website!!!!!Thanks for giving permission to steal your line about bifocals.I’m grateful for your service. I’m of the opinion that in order to have peace sometimes you just have to bust a few heads, and glad there are still “a few good men” out there able and willing to do it.
Ed’s comments remind me of something that happened here in the DC area quite a few years ago, when I picked up the paper one Monday and read about how one of “those” places got busted up over the weekend by a group of young men with very large biceps and remarkably similar haircuts, and the local Marine unit commander would assure the press that his boys were under strict orders not to instigate anything of that nature. For some reason I even remember the CO’s name: O.K. Steele. With a name like that, you knew the guy was destined to make O6.
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