In a message dated 8/13/2001 9:32:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
geopro@cyberdrive.net writes:
> Why don't you have a flap, maybe with some velcro dots sown on the tonneau 
> to cover
> the zipper. Unless the cover sags pitifully it would cut down the rain 
> intrusion
> considerably.
> 
Good Idea George.  There is a great upholstry shop in town.  Might stop by 
and see them.  Or next time I am in Dayton, OH, my father-in-law is an 
upholsterer. He might be able to do it.  I have been thinking also of a 
design for an east-to-pack cover that would slip over the whole cockpit, with 
a slot to slip over the windscreen.  Magnets in the lining around to hold it 
to the body.  That would place a total sheet over the cockpit, covering the 
tonneau and zippers in those times when the car is parked and hard storms 
approaching.  I have a tonneau cover bar that keeps the cover pretty tight, 
but some pooling does occur in front of that, even though the cover IS tight.
--David C.
 
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