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I was just wondering about the difference in tops from a 2-seat car verses a 4-seat car. I was thinking that the cockpit openning in both cars was the same it was just what the rear shelf treatment was like. "either seats or shelf".
Then I wonder what would it take to change a roadster hardtop to a convertible hardtop. If it is just the corners at the lower rear of the window openning; Maybe some reshaping with some fibreglass work would do the trick.
Or should I just turn this light bulb out!
 
Klick!!---------Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
vette, im with keoke on this one as well, by the time your done fussin with the cuttin,fittin,and fiberglass you could have built a full scale copy of a w.w.II p.t. boat! get the right one even if its rough, given time one will show up, and this is comming from a guy that makes his own wrenches.
 
where's your sense of adventure.
 
vette said:
I was just wondering about the difference in tops from a 2-seat car verses a 4-seat car. I was thinking that the cockpit openning in both cars was the same it was just what the rear shelf treatment was like. "either seats or shelf".
Then I wonder what would it take to change a roadster hardtop to a convertible hardtop. If it is just the corners at the lower rear of the window openning; Maybe some reshaping with some fibreglass work would do the trick.
Or should I just turn this light bulb out!
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Not sure if they still make them but a company called "Finish Line" makes a hardtop for a AH. It'll fit either BN or BT models. Looks good and by the time you add up all the costs of resto you would be better off.
Good Luck.
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/whistle.gif Vette:


Turn the Light Bulb out!--- Turn the Light Bulb Out!--- Turn the Light Bulb --t!--- OTOH, you might also consider turning it OFF!-------------------------------Keoke-- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
A direct quote from the "Healey List"
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To: <Healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: hardtop identification
From: "Peter Svilans" <peter.svilans@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:33:24 -0400

The four-seater hardtop sat on the aluminum cockpit surround, raised from the shroud to wheelarch height, but the two seater hardtop sat directly on the rear deck which was below wheelarch level.

Therefore the aluminum lower rail of the four-seater hardtop rises up over the wheelarch and continues dead level around the back to the other side. The two seater hardtop lower aluminum rail rises up over the wheelarch but then drops back down an inch or so to the level of the rear deck.

This makes the plexi rear window deeper on the two-seater. Other points of difference are the thick chromed-steel tabs that take the J-hooks are much longer (3.5") on the two-seater. The chromed J-hooks themselves are straight on the 2-seater, but are bent at the threads on the four. The rubber sealing strip is also different.
Best regards
Peter
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