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Sent the green TR8 vert to the upholstery guy yesterday for new carpet. First time anyone else has touched it in 23 years. It was in storage for 18 years before I bought it and started a total restoration. Probably better that I let a pro do this for me. He has to work around the roll hop and carpet up and over the back deck. I chose to delete the rear vinyl panel that goes behind the seats, and just carpet that area. When I get it back, I'll set it installing the new tan canvass top. Then it's back to the upholstery guy to get a canvass top cover made that will fit around the down tubes of the roll bar. I still have to come up with an idea for fastening the front edge of the cover to the rear panel. With the vinyl rear panel gone, there will be no way to mount the snaps without drilling thru the metal. Not a good idea when the gas tank is just aft of where the snaps would go.
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Somebody else is working on my baby
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tr8todd said:
Can you get your upholstery guy to reinforce the carpet and install snaps - maybe a thin wood panel?
Just a random thought...
Mickey
Not in that area. I will have one piece of carpet that goes up the rear panel and over it. I went to a lot of trouble filing in all of the indentations in the sheet metal. The rear area is getting a generous layer of padding under the carpet to help with sound deadening. I removed over 40 pounds of the heavy black stock deadening material back there as well as all of the brackets that secure the stock carpet and rear panels. I'm thinking about either bungy type tethers that mount lower than the snaps ordinarily would, or just having a longer top cover that extends down to below the gas tank danger zone.
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Sounds great, pictures when you get it back, eh!