In article <200104061824.f36IOEe27852@dymwsm12.mailwatch.com>, Mitchell,
Doug (D.B.) <dmitchel@ford.com> writes
>How does it look with the hood up? That's what it looks like
>with a black hard top.
Ah, but that's my point - it won't. The hard-top is a very different
shape from the soft-top (much flatter, and less organic), and I'm
concerned that it will look daft painted in a non-matching colour. It
is extraordinary how shape and colour can affect each other.
> My Magenta Spit has an after-market top
>in black, and I don't think I would like it with a magenta lid.
Your after-market hard-top (if it is similar to the ones in the Rimmer
catalogue) is closer in shape to the soft-top, and therefore will almost
certainly look wonderful. Magenta is not my favourite colour, so if I
had your car, I'd probably *want* a black top to distract the eye from
the colour of the rest of the car! :-)
ATB
Mike
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Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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