In a message dated 10/18/2003 10:38:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jmwagner@greenheart.com writes:
> It was a hardtop that made a Spitfire into a hatchback of sorts. He
> was clear, it was not a GT6... To install this hardtop, you would remove
> the Spitfire trunk lid and fuel cap. The fuel cap was repositioned.
> There was some sort of a drop in the back of the top, that cut back, (I
> asked if it was something like a TR7 rear window and he said, "no, not
> quite like that, but you have the idea...") It sounded like quite a
> unique hardtop. (It reminded me of the TR4 Dove, but this is
> definitely just a bolt-on affair.)
>
> Does anyone know who made this? If they're still being made? If anyone
> has one to sell? Anyone have pictures of one? (even without info,
> pictures would probably help in the quest for what he is looking for.)
>
Justin, take a look at (and pass along to your friend) this URL: <
http://amicale.com/spitfire/hardtop1.htm
>
>From the Amicale Spitfire (French Spitfire Club) web site. There are quite a
few different aftermarket hardtops of various shapes depicted in photographs.
I'm not sure if any one of them is what your friend might have had, but then
again... ?
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