All,
I'm researching a different design for the soft top that will correct this
problem and give the flexibility of choosing a real glass back window. If you
have any interest in this idea, let me know. It won't be original but it will be
quite easy to go back to the original top.
Ben Miller
--
'79 Spit - "Bitsy"
Corvallis, Or.
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-Broncos football is not a matter of life and death. It's WAY more important
than
that!-
James Carruthers wrote:
> Skip straight to the quesiton and avoid the ramble --> ***
>
> Using the great Mr Gosling's instructions, the removal of hardtop and
> fitting of soft was easy peasy.
>
> However I should have followed MHM's advice - and waited a little longer
> - as the drive back to college yesterday was possibly the worst weather
> I have ever driven in, in the spit. No sooner had I put on the soft top
> - the weather got bad.
>
> It was seriously raining - the type of rain where you try and prod the
> wiper stork up - because the fastest setting feels like it's on slow -
> or just incase your car happens to have a third warp speed setting. The
> type of rain where driving consists of following the 2 red lights in
> front.
>
> It was also very very windy - the type of wind that has you wondering if
> the soft top could possibly work as a kite and make your Spit really
> fly.
>
> However my radio was tuned to a station which was playing 80's
> "classics" - which had a rather surreal feel to it. And I've found the
> acoustics are far better with the soft top.
>
> *** But my question is - where do the windows go? - surely the soft top
> doesnt just curl around and go inside? If it goes on the outside then
> you can't get out with the windows up? I feel Im missing something
> here.....
>
> James
>
> 1977 Pimento Red Spit
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