In a message dated Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:21:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Samuel L. Walters" <slwalters@earthlink.net> writes: << Volks, I first learned that you could use the heater as a way to provide extra cooling when reading Sports Illustrated back in the late 60's (I think this is right). It was a story about the heavyweight fighter George Chuvalo (spelling?) - who I think was Canadian. There was an part describing his early fighting career when he and his wife would drive alone to some of his fights. Their car was overheating en route to a fight and even though it was summer they turned own the heater and it would cool off some<snip> >> My freshman year in college I drove an old (even then)MG Midget that, amoung many other charming quirks, required the heater to run in the summer to avoid overheating. Thank goodness it didn't have a top! Chuck |
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