[Tigers] Pilot who owned a Tiger and Ferrari in Woodland Hills in 80s

[Jay]

Anyone here an airline pilot who owned a Tiger and then a Ferrari, and lived in Woodland Hills in the 1980s?  Or anyone know who that might have been?

I was just recalling that I purchased a Dynoplastic hardtop from you/him then.  At the time, he had sold his Tiger and bought a Ferrari, and still had the hardtop.  I bought it for a whopping $75.

It’s funny, it didn't have the rear quarter windows. The front and rear clips were basically L brackets with J bolts in them. Years later, when I had money and restored my Alpine, I bought a decent factory steel hardtop and restored it to match perfectly, all new rubber, all new windows and all correct brackets. I finally ditched that silly $75 top.

Then I came to realize how great that Dynoplastic one was. Glass rear window and sooooo light. Easy to put on and off by myself. Easy to hang up on the wall. Quick to put on and off if the need arose.

And now instead I have a supremely heavy hardtop with plastic rear window, that I can still put on and off myself - but with quite a heft to get it up and off. In fact, I think I've done it only once or twice since restoring it. Of course that's mostly because I greatly prefer top down driving and don't drive it in the rain.  

Sometimes they say the simpler life is the better life.  So maybe the simpler hardtop is the better hardtop. 

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