I used to hang my old Datsun Roadsters hard top from the garage ceiling. It
had some pretty beefy mounts to bolt to the car so I used these to suspend
it from the ceiling with rope and pulley's. It naturally wanted to rest
upside down so I used a plastic tarp to protect the headliner from dust. As
a safety I used a truck bed netted cargo rope just lightly under it to
provide additional holding power (in California - earth quake capital). I
didn't want it to land on a car or my head. Funny thing was, I only had it
on the car when I brought the hard top home, and next when I sold the car.
Complete waste of money for me as if it was raining I would simply drive my
primary car!
Peter S
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <dougbert@rcn.com>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 5:51 PM
Subject: Spit Hardtop Questions
>
> Hello,
>
> I am now the proud owner of a factory hardtop for my Spit.
> Maybe some other hardtop-owner can answer a few questions?
>
> 1: The parts catalog shows a short metal tube on each of the
> front attaching bolts. It looks like these are used to fix the
> spacing between the front edge of the hardtop and the top of the
windscreen frame.
> Without them, you would crush the rubber gasket as you tightened the
bolts.
> TRF wants something ridiculous like $10 for one of these, and I could
> cut them myself from 50 cents worth of metal tubing from the hardware
store.
> Does anyone have one that they could measure, and tell me how long it is?
>
> 2: Beneath the rear window, there are three snap fittings. What is
supposed to
> snap there? I guess it would be some sort of cover for the folded-up soft
top.
> Is the normal soft top cover supposed to go there, or is there a special
cover?
>
> 3: Do I need to unbolt the rear edge of the soft top from the body before
I put
> on the hardtop, or is it designed to fit over the soft top?
>
> 4: (The inevitable question:) What's the best way to store this thing in
> a garage without scratching it, denting it, or getting the headliner
messed up?
> It would be sort of cool to have it suspended over the car by a
block-and-tackle
> arrangement, so it could be lowered into place, but this sounds like more
trouble
> than it is worth...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Braun
> '72 Spit
>
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