[Spridgets] Skimpy Tonneaus

[Larry Macy]

In all the years I have owned my Midget, I have never had a tonneau  
that fit over the doors as you are describing. I have been through  
about 6 tonneaus (or more) and I suspect that the one you had that you  
could do that with was "modified". I can not be sure about that, but  
that is my experience.

Larry

On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:26 PM, dlancer7676 at comcast.net wrote:

> 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.
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