[Tigers] Follow Up to my Dumb Questions regarding hard and soft top bow to windscreen weather stripping.

[Larry Mayfield]

Sunbeam Specialties told me today that the seals are interchangeable. But
when I said that on the soft top they were a 4 alarm booger to get into the
"C" channel because of the screws holding it to the front bow, he said
screws should be rivets!  Wha.? I have owned this car for 50 years now and
although I purchased it used, it only had a few thousand miles on it and the
rag top was original.  Could my memories have dimmed that much from the very
first time I changed the soft top?  Do any of you folk have your rag top in
original condition and where the seal location is visible and can look at it
and verify rivets vs screws?  If rivets are OEM then I know who it will go
back together, lol. Screw for temp install to hold then rivets alongside the
screws to  fasten permanently.  Or replace the screws in the OEM holes with
rivets, one at a time. This is, of course, my MK 1, last 4 vin #s 1136. 

 

Thanks kindly, ya'll

 

mayf

 

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