Truth or old wives tale ?

[petew]

  Have to get a friends 55 Sunliner from my shop about 12 miles down the road to the body shop. The hood is off and I have heard in the past that this can promote overheating .
I have driven the car some since getting the fresh drivetrain in and it seem fine . Anybody had a bad experience related to leaving the hood off ?

Pete

[Jeff Norwell]

Total BS

[petew]

Thanks Jeff

[hiball3985]

Has no effect on a 57. I ran without for the first 250 miles after installing the new engine..

[junior58]

May even run cooler due to loads of airflow

[Ecode70D]

Running that car without the hood will not make it overheat.  I can't even remember how many times I did that and there were no overheating issues.  .