Only a bit of cardboard wired in place to the rad cap.
No need to over engineer things.
Hopefully tomorrow morning will be what it says it is - cold but dry and maybe bright.
Austin day at the White Lion Classic Car Meets
Saturday, 8 November 2014
Covering radiator for now
Only a bit of cardboard wired in place to the rad cap.
No need to over engineer things.
Hopefully tomorrow morning will be what it says it is - cold but dry and maybe bright.
Austin day at the White Lion Classic Car Meets
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Cars of the 50's and early 60's were commonly seen with aluminium tinfoil blanking off part of the radiator grille in winter. It's a quick and easy way to reduce airflow to the radiator without the risk of anything catching fire or hitting the cooling fan. My own Somerset came with a radiator blind installed similar to a roller blind. It was pulled out, or rather extended from it's fixed container during winter, then retracted again in spring. I'll bet those blinds are very rare items today.
ReplyDeleteWow.. I know someone who has a grill muff on their Somerset. The guy I bought mine from actually. But I hadn't heard of a radiator blind before. Something like this I suppose: Westminster radiator blind?
DeleteYes that's exactly it Mike. I sold it via ebay to the spares chap for the Austin counties club who's name escapes me now. Mine was a low mileage 1953 car that had sat unmolested in a barn for 40 years. The rad blind was fitted to the car when found. By the looks of the fittings it was designed specifically for the job as the mounting points lined up exactly with holes on the inner cowl of the Somerset. There was a large market for after market add ons in the 1950's however, you could get anything from draught deflectors for the windows to an exhaust tailpipe deflector to make the exhaust smoke face downwards!
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