[Spits] Help with hardtop!! Please!!!

[Frank Drummond]

Harve,

Here is the secret that I discovered with mounting the factory hardtop on my 
72 Spitfire.

The car starts to sag in the middle from metal fatigue after all these 
years.  Not much, but enough for the distance between the rear holes on the 
car and the holes over the windscreen to shorten.  As a result, the holes no 
longer line up with the hardtop.

The solution,  place a bottle jack under the frame rails midway between the 
wheels on both sides of the car.  As you jack up each side evenly, the 
weight of the end of the car that is heaviest will cause the car to lose its 
sag and the distance between the front and back holes will lengthen allowing 
you to get the bolts started.

Do it carefully, remembering to block both the front and back wheels since 
depending on jack placement either the front or back wheels will start to 
leave the ground.  Good luck.

Frank Drummond