In a message dated 98-01-23 04:48:50 EST, emakris@hol.gr writes:
<<sure beats leaving the car in the soft top as no razor
blade can slash the metal hardtop, hopefully.>>
<<According to the Production Trace Certificate from BMIHT, the hardtop I
have is the one the car was shipped with, back in 1966, to its original
dealership destination.>>
These two statements do not compute. The factory hardtop is not metal, it is
fiberglass.
<< This is all I know about MkIII and MkIV hardtops:
MkIII: rear aligning brackets, flat windscreens, square design,
"thick" rear seal (because the MkIII body is flat) and
two metal rear seal retainer halves. The side bracket has
a channel where the bolt moves forward and backward.
MkIV: no rear aligning brackets, flat windscreens, square design,
"thin" rear seal (raised MkIV body) and no retainers. The
side bracket has only a hole for the bolt.
Don't know about MkI or MkII hardtops because I don't have such
a car, >>
All Sprites, have different hardtops, four different ones, none are
interchangable, they are all different shapes. There are different windshield
attachments, different side attachent brackets, different rear attachment
brackets, different windshield shapes and seals, different sidescreen/ window
profiles and different rear scuttle shapes and seals. Several of these things
changed on each model. You cannot simply change seals and make one fit
another,. You many get it to stay on the car, but that does not mean that it
fits.
Bruce Gearns
MkI, MkIII and MKIV hardtops
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