[Spridgets] Skimpy Tonneaus

[dlancer7676 at comcast.net]

What the heck is going on? Are tonneau covers going the way of sugar (5 lb. bags now 4 lb.) and coffee (now 11.5 oz. in a pound)? Just after I bought my '79 Midget, I purchased a used tonneau cover from a car guy in Knoxville. The fabric was fairly heavy and the tonneau fit very nicely, and had snaps on the tabs that hung over the windows. I measured and installed the matching snaps on the doors just below the windows, and when everything was snapped up, the tonneau was pretty darned secure. 

That original tonnau finally went the way of sun and use damage and I had to trash it, thinking I will just buy another on ebay. So I purchased one that was reportedly for a Sprite or Midget. The picture had the pockets in the right places--two for the headrests and one for the steering wheel. But when I tried to snap this tonneau on, the snaps on the tonneau wouldn't quite reach the snaps on the car. and the tabs over the windows had NO snaps on them, and there was NO WAY, once the few snaps it would reach in the rear were engaged, it would reach the FRONT snaps. 

So I went back to ebay and bought another one--described for a '69-'79 Sprite or Midget. It is really nice, a;though the fabric is somewhat thinner, and all the rear snaps are snapped, but the tabs over the windows/doors are TOO DAMNED SHORT, coming to just over the windows themselves, and there are NO snaps on these either, to secure the tonneau over the doors. 

Why is there no standard for producing a tonneau cover? These that I am buying are not NEW tonneaus, so (as far as I know) are not made in China or Taiwan. All I want is a tonneau cover that will engage ALL the snaps on my car, INCLUDING those that I installed on the outside of the doors, just below the windows. 

Anybody else having trouble with ill-fitting tonneaus? 

--David C.