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HELP,I have asked this question in the past and perhaps was not as clear as I should have been. Apparently about 1956-57 the big healey (100/6) was still built at longbridge. During those production runs a number of cars (4 Seaters) were built with a convertable top with bows (frames) that were attached to the car. The attachment point for the bows (Top Frame) was just to the rear of the doors on a fore and aft slider that allowed the enough travel for the bows to be pushed back behind the the rear seat backs so that the top and bows would rest in the same place, concealed behind the rear seat backs, as the later 100/6 and mark 1 3000'S. The front attachment point of the bows remained fixed in the "sliders". Unlike the later cars that use a single hole to affix the bows, and also shared the tonneau bow (Frame), the Longbridge top , due to the permanent slider, had a seprate receptical for the tonneau bow, located just in front of the slider, and behind the door.Because of the slider the normal flat area dips down to accomodate this mechanisim. When not in use the tonneau bow can be pulled out (like the early 3000), and can be tucked behind the rear seat over the top.The top on this car is new, but obviously was designed for the later 100/6 and 3000. The bow (Frame) angle for the new top is different, slightly, from the later frame. Suppliers do not seem to recognize this difference so they keep sending the top designed for the later 100/6 and early 3000 types. Having owned a 3000 in 1960, when new, I am very familiar with the frame that that has a hole which accomodated both the tonneau and the top frames. Does anyone have any idea about how difficult it would be to convert the sliding arangement to the later design/?IE Make it a flat area with the single hole. Is it worth it? I am just tired of trying to explain this to suppliers.and I think the later type top is easier anyway.
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