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Re: [Healeys] Factory Hard Top!

To: <bighealey@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Factory Hard Top!
From: john spaur <jmsdarch@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 21:12:42 -0700
When I lived at Lake Tahoe in the Winter of '71 the hardtop was great 
to have. Then spring came and I stored it at my parents house far away from me.

At 01:46 PM 5/5/2009 -0700, bighealey@charter.net wrote:
>Mark,
>
>Come run a rally with us in the snow then tell us how pure you want 
>to be.  I get your point but there are times when a hard top is 
>really practical.
>
>Cheers
>
>T
>
>---- Mark LaPierre <lapierrem@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I have made good use of every hard top that I have ever 
> owned.   Sold all of
> > them and put
> > the money into something really useful for the car or  kids 
> future.    They
> > are a PITA to store and the usage doesn't equal the expense at 
> all .    May
> > pay off when you sell but it has to be to a real purist
> > cause the casual observer/ driver,  wants a top down car not a 
> hard top car.
> >
> > Just my 2cents on experiences with hard tops.
> >
> > FWIW,   for more room,   remove hard top.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jack Feldman" <qualitas.jack@gmail.com>
> > To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 2:42 PM
> > Subject: [Healeys] Factory Hard Top!
> >
> >
> > > Just got my hard top back from being restored. The purists can vent now
> > > since I had it painted black to go with my Colorado Red over Black paint
> > > job. Knowing this is to last forever, I had the headlining done 
> in a black
> > > textured vinyl.
> > >
> > > The problem I have is in getting in and out. When I had my 
> bugeye I had no
> > > trouble getting in and out when the hard top was on. But that 
> was 45 years
> > > and 30 lbs ago. But I was also two inches taller than.
> > >
> > > While I have figured out how to do it, when I do get in, my 
> 5'7" is about
> > > 2
> > > inches from the headliner.
> > >
> > > What do six footers do to get in and out, and how do they fit in?
> > >
> > > Someone told my that Donald Healey was 5'6" and than might explain why he
> > > had a special coupe made for him rather than a hard top.
> > >
> > > I have an idea of how to store it, but I wonder how other folks who have
> > > hard tops store theirs.
> > >
> > > Jack
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