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OOOhhhh!! Pretty-pretty!!!
 
One more try....
 

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Oooooooooh, now that red one is niiiiiiicccccceeeeeeeee!!!!!
 
I guess I have to try too?
 

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Yeah! Must have been having a "White Sale" even though I see one colored one snuck in!
 
And look at the tops close, they are not vinyl they are canvus????????

What you think??????
 
In 1958 there wasn't such a thing as vinyl, at least in widespread commercialization. Canvas would have been normal. My parents had an A40 Sports slightly earlier than the Bugeye and it definitely had a canvas top, I have pictures somewhere. This was in Malaya where the sun and the humidity wreaked all kinds of havoc on all parts of the vehicle.
 
I did see a different shape and size.
I'd like to know how you'd trace an oil leak on that parking lot.
 
Since they're all scroll-seals it'd be likely the whole place was one big slick anyhoo! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif


The frogeye photo gives a new meaning to "Field of Dreams"!!!
 
Yeah, imagine the fun you could have after hours, all under the umbrella of 'quality control' of course.
 
My first bugeye, a 60 in 1963 had a vinyl top?
 
The side curtains on all those cars are interesting too (I did see a set of just the metal frames for such as those on ebay recently)! When did the aluminium frames and sliding Perspex panels start,does anyone know?
 
Can't remember when the sliding ones started (mid 1960 build, I think). My 1960 has the original soft type. The build date is November 20, 1959. I quite like them, actually, and will eventually get them recovered. They fit pretty snugly, and don't rattle around.
 
The rattling is the biggest drawback on the sliders. How do you handle tolls and getting into the car with the soft type? Do they open somehow? The slider I have now actually are from my old '64. The BE came with no curtains, or hood for that matter, though interestingly the metal strips for the front AND rear of the hood were found buried in the boot thankfully. They would have been hard to come up with if I hadn't found them I think!
 
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