The only advantage I can think of to fit both tops simultaneously is for
transporting the car to it's new owner. I would suspect that when a new car
was ordered with both tops from the factory, this might have been how the cars
were delivered to the dealers, no?
Take care,
Jeff in San Diego
1968 Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: A particularly dumb question about hardtops
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, at around 09:14:46 local time, Richard Gosling
<richard.gosling@exprogroup.com> wrote:
>OK, that explains it, I never had the alternative brackets so I never
quite
>understood how they worked.
When I started the restoration of my hard-top, I went out and bought
absolutely every fixing that it was possible to attach (and they're not
cheap!); that being the case, I made sure I worked out how to use them.
<g>
>
>Still, I'm not sure what the point is.
Nor am I. I suppose it would be of use if you had nowhere to store the
soft-top when it was off the car (it won't go in the boot), but it
doesn't take up that much room in my mother's garage, or so I keep
telling her... Besides, if that was the situation, where would you
keep the hard-top when it was off the car?
> Once my hard-top is on it stays
>there for 6 months, and once it comes off it stays off, so the 2 minutes
I'd
>save by not having to undo the extra 4 bolts that hold the frame on is
>hardly worth it.
Agreed. I can't see me ever wanting to put the hard-top on with the
soft-top in place again.
ATB
--
Mike
Ellie - 1963 White Herald 1200 Convertible GA125624 CV
Connie - 1968 Conifer Herald 1200 Saloon GA237511 DL
Carly - 1977 Inca Yellow Spitfire 1500 FH105671
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