> Is it any quieter with the factory steel hardtop on,
Not in my experience. It's a different kind of noise ... less high
frequency whoosh and more low frequency rumble, as the steel of the hardtop
transmits all the vibration of the car to sound.
> Also, the faster you go in the old TR, the more the side curtains get
> sucked out by the airstream. It has got me suspect of the mounting screws
> holding the side curtain brackets into the wood inside the door. Do these
> brackets have a tendency to rip out? It seems like a guy could have a side
> curtain get sucked off by the vacuum from an oncoming truck going by.
I solved that problem easily ... never use sidecurtains !
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Randall
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