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Re: [TR] TR3 Tonneau Cover

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Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 Tonneau Cover
From: Dave1massey@cs.com
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:33:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Full-name: Dave1massey
Indeed.  And it seems you always want to put up the hood or tonneau when 
the weather is no longer sunny.

The top on my TR6 fits great!  The history on this top is that it was 
purchased by an acquaintance back in the mid 70's but before he could put it on 
his car got T-boned and totaled.  So he put it on the shelf.  20+ years later 
when I was redoing my TR6 he dug it out and gave it to me.  But the time it 
was installed on my car the stretch was gone.  Upholsterers like to set 
these things up nice and tight.  A saggy top looks like a sloppy installation.  
When you do that with a new top that means stretching it.  But after a few 
years and after the elastomers evaporate the top no longer stretches and, 
hence, no longer fits.

But when they are made too short to begin with...

Dave

In a message dated 8/18/2013 7:20:35 PM Central Daylight Time, 
bobannand1@eastlink.ca writes: 
> The only problem with fitting the hood or tonneau in the sun is that they 
> are a bastard to put on when it is cold and wet.

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