Hats?

I really don't have a favorite hat. I keep a moth eaten tweed snap brim hat in the garage for when I drive one of the MGs. I don't wear a hat in the Jag, it's a coupe. I wear a full face helmet when I ride the motorcycle and I wear a ball cap from one of the ships I've worked on when I walk the dog. If I'm just farting around in the shop, yard or in town, I don't wear a hat at all.

None of my hats have any Marque emblems on them.

Dave

I had a most excellent Classic Motorsports ball cap that I lost, I think at last year's challenge. I really should get another. Great hat.

I have a VW ball cap laying around somewhere, which is kind of baffling since I haven't owned a VW since about 1994.

At one time I had a very nice MG ball cap, but I don't know where it walked off to, either.

Apparently, I don't have good hat skills.

I had a Volvo 1800S ball cap I wore out, so now I use a Summit cap (which I have only because it was free). Therefore, I voted No.

As a balding guy, I tend to wear a hat a lot when working on my cars. I hate getting grease, grime, rust, and anything else on my pate. Also, being in SoCal, it's sunny and a sunburn up there hurts.

Most of the hats I wear are the freebies I've gotten over the years from coaching my kids' ball teams. I take particular pleasure in getting the Red Sox cap covered in muck.

Otherwise, I generally think that folks that wear hats with marque logos either don't own said marque or have family/friends that have no idea what to buy them as gifts.

There are likely many more Ferrari hats in circulation than actual Ferraris.

I wear my MG Safety Fast green and tan baseball cap all the time. I also have a plaid and very British looking cap that I like to wear in the MGB, but the bill doesn't stick out far enough on sunny days. In the Miata, I wear the Shinsen Version cap that came with the car from Mazda.

I used to have a really comfortable, all-black ball cap. We got it as a sample somehow. Well, one day the Mini overheated, and I didn't have any rags in the car. The cap is still somewhere in the garage, but I haven't worn it since.

I have a nice "Jefferson 500" hat that Brian Redmond signed for me earlier this year. He's a nice man and a funny character....we were both born in the north of England so we talked about that for a while.

I don't wear the hat too often.....it's more of a "show off" thing.

My "normal" hat is a baseball cap from my FIRST Robotics team. I been working with the team for over 10 years and I guess I like to show that off.

I have a 2003 Ferrari F1 hat signed by Schmacher that my friend Steve austin, not the rebuilt astronaut but the owner of Steve Austin's Automobilia (steveaustinsautomobilia.com), gave me for my birthday a few years back. It was one of my all time favorite gifts.

I had a hat with an embroidered Corvette emblem when I was a kid. I don't recall if I still owned the hat or wore it while I actually owned a Corvette some years after purchasing the hat.

I had a hat with an embroidered Corvette emblem when I was a kid. I don't recall if I still owned the hat or wore it while I actually owned a Corvette some years after purchasing the hat.

I prefer a full brim with chin strap for the highway and a baseball cap in town. The full hats have no logo but the caps are free and have something or other that advertises the business. I do have one Abarth, one Fiat and a few club caps that are in the mix.

Cheers Ron

I cant stand hats. The feeling of one on my head drives me completley nuts. Unfortunatley I have to wear a hard hat at work.

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ditchdigger wrote:

I cant stand hats. The feeling of one on my head drives me completley nuts. Unfortunatley I have to wear a hard hat at work.

Dougie

(Great picture Dougie! Looking at that reminds me that the 60s has to be the best era ever in road racing. The cars, the venues and the participants seemed so much more interesting then).

Concerning hats, I have a weakness for acquiring baseball hats (which we call them in New England, as opposed to “ball caps”), and I have more than I’ll ever be able to wear out in my lifetime. I only have one with a car brand (Triumph, of course), but others with geographic locations (Ft. Lauderdale, Venice Beach , LA, Chicago, London, etc.), race tracks (Lime Rock, Mosport, der Nurburgring), race organizations, car magazines, one of Burt’s “Elkhart Lake/The Last Open Road” hats, various wineries/vineyards, Newport International Polo series, and others. Some fit and look better than others so I have a few favorites that feel right on my head, and even though I’m a Triumph car guy, I rarely wear that hat.

I wear a cheap straw flat-brimmed hat when working the course or the yard - at least until the wind comes up. Then it's swapped for a gimme ballcap from the local electric co-op. I don't wear a hat while driving, but then I don't have an open car. At work, I often have to wear a plastic hard hat, and recently switched to the wide-brim style for a little more sun protection. An Army career left me wanting to call them helmets or brainbuckets. I don't currently own a cowboy hat. Too much bother to keep it nice.