I had the top down in my '99 GT when it was 28 degrees, and snow flurries. We had a Christmas Tree box standing up in the back seat...It was cold as hell!

 

Right now it is 59 degrees in New England. Too cold.

 

the top goes up????



I'll ride with it down to around 40ish.....

 

I don't have a convertable but my friend does and she got hers last winter and we rode around on a saturday night with it down probably 30-38 degrees. Not that bad in the front, but felt bad for teh people in the back.. HA!... yeah but we got stared down and laughted at.... i laughed to though.....

 

It gets a little too cold here to drive in the winter with the roof down (how does -40 sound? add the windchill & it's -50C).

In the UK I used to drive my MG Midget to work every day with the roof down, year round. I remember being sat in traffic in York with fresh snow coming down, roof down of course, & a bus load of Japanese tourists taking pictures of the "mad Englishman".

 

This guy looks pretty cold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSM9MP9O2z0

 

That was great I think I remember that commercial!!!

 

I've had a couple convertibles that weren't, really: no top. Not too bad here near the coast, ocean keeps the temp pretty stable. Each of those no-top cars was my only driver, and I lived in Arkansas and San Bernardino, California. Neither had a heater. I dressed flight-crew style for longer runs, just warm and tolerated it down to four or five below freezing for twenty-minute or less commutes. Foolish youth, true, but I never lost a finger or nose to frostbite.

I haven't had occasion to drive this '06 top-down at anything under about 55 degrees F. That wasn't too bad, even at highway speeds.

 

Hell it's been 27 degs to low 40's here in the day and there is still bikes (with out windjammers)on the street, I haven't put my trike away for the winter yet.

Pat

 

I've read somewhere that if it's too cold (don't remember how cold, and the car has beenparked outside for awhile) and you put the top downyourisk crackingas it gets into its folded position and putting up again later can do the same.