[Healeys] Factory Hard Top!

Bob Haskell rchaskell at earthlink.net
Mon May 4 04:08:29 MDT 2009


Jack,

The black textured vinyl on my BT7's hard top is on the outside :^)  I"m 
6' 9" and I modified the lower seat frame so it's an inch closer to the 
gearbox and back a couple of inches.  That allowed me to raise the pivot 
point for the seat back and tilt it back a fair bit.  The car has a 
dished 15" Mota-Lita steering wheel which helps with the leg room.  My 
hair will brush against the headliner.

Bob

Jack Feldman wrote:
> 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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