Hi, David --
It's all relative. my Midget is easier to latch than the Healey, but it's
necessary with both cars to use some muscle to put the latches in place.
With the Miata, you just push a button on the latch, and it opens over
center. Push the lever back down, and the latch grabs the striker and
pulls the top home all by itself. It couldn't be any easier.
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC USA
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE"
'66 BJ8 HBJ8L/36666 "TARHEELY"
'63 BJ7 HBJ7L/20111 "HEALEYUM"
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
than to speak, and remove all doubt" -- Mark Twain
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> From: Lancer7676@aol.com
> To: byers@cconnect.net; spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: BCW Sightings
> Date: Saturday, May 29, 1999 12:48 PM
>
> In a message dated 5/29/99 8:48:43 AM EST, byers@cconnect.net writes:
>
> << Compared with the struggle to latch the Healey or
> Midget tops >>
>
> Hmmmmm---Steve--My '79 Midget is no trouble whatsoever to latch the
top--I
> don't remember any problem with the '67 3000 I used to own long ago. Of
> course both have folding frames with the top attached, unlike earlier
models.
> Could that be the difference?
>
> --David
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