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RE: Hardtop Installation

To: "Bill Tubbs" <piperbill@isp01.net>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Hardtop Installation
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:21:48 -0700
References: <005401c21d85$1aad0e00$8500a8c0@finnland>
At 8:45 PM -0700 6/26/02, Bill Tubbs wrote:
>Gerard and David:  Thanks!  I found the parts on my current Moss catalog
>(page 138 of SPM-0204).  Thank you both for the quick response!!  I'll order
>those and see how this thing fits.  Dumb question -- I trust all the softtop
>goodies come out before the hardtop goes on, right?


No, it should sit on the lip around tha back and clear (for the most part)
the part where the softtop is permanently fastened at the back. Fold the
top as you normally would, but the top boot will not be used unless you
make sone judicious cutouts. You can remove the soft top if you desire.

Send pics.

Gerard

>
>I need to restore the rubber and replace the rear window, but the top's in
>pretty good shape and actually looks okay on the Midget.
>
>Thanks again!
>
>Bill
>
>-----Original Messages-----
>
>There is an "L" shaped bracket (well, sort of) that attaches to the three
>bolts that hold the top frame in place. A single bolt holds the two
>brackets together.
>
>Gerard
>
>
>Bill, my hardtop for my 1974 attaches just behind the B-post using the
>brackets for the tonneau bar. Moss # 402-565 on page 130 of catalog spm-13.
>I had the same puzzlement when I  first attached mine. Found the brackets on
>a spare shell I had. If you looked at the Windblocker that someone mentioned
>last week, it attached via the same brackets.
>HTH
>David Lieb
>Chicagoland MG Club

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