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Re: Hard Top

To: "Gordon Glasgow" <gsglasgow@attbi.com>, <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Hard Top
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 06:34:10 -0500
You don't need the spray, water works fine. I remember putting on a striping
kit on my 1st 240 and they recommended to use water to position the stripe
and then squeege it. Jus make sure all the air bubbles come out by using a
pin if air does get trapped.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Glasgow" <gsglasgow@attbi.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: RE: Hard Top


> You mean this stuff?
>
http://www.griotsgarage.com/search.jsp?searchtext=77890&search.x=16&search.y
=7
>
> Gordon Glasgow
> Renton, WA
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Paul
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 7:58 AM
> > To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Hard Top
> >
> >
> >   I think I remember seeing what you are talking about.  Kind of a clear
> > contact paper that provided some protection from stone chips but easily
> > peeled off.  Now if I could only remember where I saw it?
> >   I run a hard top on my 1600 mainly because I still haven't had my soft
top
> > mounted yet.  Before I set the hard top on, I rub on a heavy coat of wax
to
> > help protect the paint.  And I never leave it on long.  I also replaced
all
> > the weather stripping when I first got the top.  Along the bottom edge
where
> > it meets the body, I used a very heavy profile to keep the top up off
the
> > body.
> >
> > Paul
> > OROC
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com>
> > To: <Chris.Brucciani@ercgroup.com>
> > Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: Hard Top
> >
> >
> > > Has anyone tried a kind of plastic film applied to the area where the
top
> > contacts the
> > > body to protect the paint? I remember seeing something like that
applied
> > to the front of a
> > > Porsche RS at the Historic Automobile Races at Laguna Seca some years
> > back.
> > >
> > > Gary McCormick
> > > San Jose, CA
> >
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