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Re: [Roadsters] Hardtop

To: "Eddie Wu / SAKE RKT" <datsunroadsters@yahoo.com>,
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Hardtop
From: "Gary and Cindy Ault" <aultgc@att.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:07:35 -0500
Eddie,

Your experience matches mine.  But, I have to ask, why own a roadster on 
which you need to keep a hardtop?  If I needed to keep a hardtop on my 
roadster to drive it, I would get a different car which performs better, 
like a 240Z or an RX-7.

Sure to provoke controversy....

Gary
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eddie Wu / SAKE RKT" <datsunroadsters@yahoo.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Hardtop


> My hardtop (manufacturer unknown) hardly touches the paint.  It doesn't 
> sit on
> the rear trim (u-bar) but instead, the hardtop sort of rests on top of the
> softop hardware/twisties.
>
> The hardtop has been on my Roadster about 99% of
> the time for the last 2-3 years.  I removed it occasionally when I do a
> complete detail on the car which is about 1-2x a year.  There is some 
> marking
> on the paint, but nothing that I haven't been able to buff out.
>
> -Eddie
> SAKE
> RKT
> '66 1600
>
> --- On Wed, 3/30/11, David B. Stanton <dstanton1@bak.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From: David B. Stanton <dstanton1@bak.rr.com>
>> Subject: [Roadsters]
> Hardtop
>> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>> Date: Wednesday, March 30,
> 2011, 3:35 PM
>> I bought my Dynoplastics Hardtop new
>> when I bought my 1970
> 2000 new.  It
>> certainly damaged the paint, and forty one years later,
>> with
> the original
>> factory paint still on the car, I know of no cure.  On
>> the
> other hand, you
>> don't see the damage when the hardtop is on the car (very
>>
> rarely the case).
>> Dave
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