Benevolent Listers,
My BJ8 restoration is nearing the 20 year mark and I'm still having a
serious problem with the convertible top and the mounting brackets.
Sometime before the turn of the century I replaced the rear wheel arches and
welded the old brackets onto the new arches - NOT - in the right positions.
I've fiddled with the convertible top umpteen times and just lately have
decided to tackle the bracket location problem. My car is completely painted
and virtually everything is installed, but the top will not close properly
and I'm bound and determined to solve this problem once and for all.
Ideally I'd like to purchase new brackets but apparently they are not
available
anywhere so I guess I'm going to have to cut them away from the wheel
arches and start over again. There are no pictures in any of the dozens of
Healey books I've purchased over the years and nothing I've been able to glean
from this list's archives or other Healey forums.
So . . . in a fit of desperation, I'm appealing to the good folks on
this list for any advice, photos, dimensions or even vague remembrances as
to how this can be fixed before my driver's license is revoked due to old
age.
Bill
BJ8 29298
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