Glass art from the sawmill
03/06/2025
The things I've had to listen to because my Mercedes-Benz 300 TE has a retrofitted sunroof. You know: those slightly rounded universal rectangles that you could have sawn into the roof of your used car without air conditioning at almost any petrol station in the 1990s. Always ugly, always depreciating, always leaking. That's what they say.
The fact that I have never experienced a factory-fitted sunroof that ventilates the interior so pleasantly and without any noise, even at 120 km/h, is ignored. Likewise the fact that the roof is the only sheet metal part that has not yet had to be extensively repaired after rusting. And in car washes, only the car is still showered, not the driver.
Fortunately, I was recently able to add another argument to my portfolio: It's racing accessories! In the fifties, a Swiss hillclimb racer installed two additional Plexiglas hatches in his gullwing - so that he could look uphill better before cornering. Unfortunately, it is difficult to change the position of a glass roof at a later date. That's why mine only helps before a loop...
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