Okay, it becomes clearer .. the hardtop I bought had a kludge of
turnbuckles for latching the sides, not buckles.
This is an aftermarket Parrish hardtop, not a factory hardtop. Anhyone
know: Would the side buckles be different, or did they have the same
hardware if I find any side buckles?
On 1/18/06, Barry Hayes <bhayes@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I just bought a hardtop for my '67 Alpine V a few weeks ago, and got
> it in place last night.
>
> I don't see where the rear turnbuckles are supposed to hook into --
> there's a horizontal bar about the right diameter and about a
> half-inch long, looks like part of the ragtop assembly, behind the
> chrome behind the door. It looks as if the turnbuckle fits pretty
> close through a corner-notch on that and might be able to hook that
> rod -- zat it?
>
> By the way, I ran up to San Francisco to look at the hardtop on
> craigslist -- someone had been storing beer cans in it, and lots of,
> shall we say, "fluid" was between the top and the headliner. So it was
> free to anyone who didn't mind installing a new headliner ..
> -Barry
>
> --
> bhayes yat cs dot stanford dot edu is what you should put in your
> contact files -- it'll forward to me no matter where I move
>
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