what looks better hard or soft?

[simyarg]

I don't usually have much to offer the other menbers here but I do have some pictures of my car with a vinyl covered hardtop. However, once I got it stored in the garage roof that's where it been ever since. Happy Easter.
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[Another Peter]

I actually prefer the hard top to the soft top. My preference would always be for a body coloured one.

Might have something to do with the fact that my soft top doesn't fit too well.

In addition, the soft top sports a nice tear down the driver's side when some numpty (me ) lowered the soft top in the early days of ownership not realising that there was a proper way to do it which did not involve brute force!



Regards

Peter

[StokeyStag]

In order of preference:

1) Topless
2) Hardtop (body colour - at least on mine)
3) Mk1 hood
4) Mk2 hood

I put 3) and 4) just to add another dimension !

Mark

[milothedog]

I didn't have a hard top for mine but was lucky enough to buy (for another member and at a sensible price) a virtually rust free, just some paint scabs, Mk1 top in gloss Black. that didn't work with the Blue for me so I thought it would look great in Silver and painted it. It didn't work either, I didn't even unmask it and bought some Sapphire Blue in the end and it looks perfect.

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Ian

[jakesmig]

Have to say I don't do hard top, had one with the car when I got it, sold it pdq, because I go with the hood down any day of the year if the weathers' decent, but if I had one I think body colour is the way to go, although I could be swayed by the vinyll as on johns white Stag, which opens up questions on what colour vinyll etc.
Better of sticking to rag top only, but then you can get various colours of hood...............................
Buckit, im off t'pub.
john

[ALABAMA ANDY]

Hard top........
And body coloured every time.
Looks like a proper GT & in that guise is without a doubt the prettiest British 70's car (in my worthless opinion anyway).
The chrome door frames (why on earth DO these cars have door frames & if they have to, then why not wind down in a Beetle Karmann Cabrio style ? ) look perfectly suited & are replicated by the chrome rear quarter windows, roll bar side trim & all the other chrome trim it comes with.
Plus with the tinted glass & heated rear window, the uneducated will more than lightly think it IS a GT rather than a Cabrio.
The fact that it is a Convertable to me is just a Bruicy Bonus.
I'd be happy to drive it Hard Top on looking this cool all year round.
The one peeve I have is the Hard Top is Soooooooo damn heavy to lift off & awkward to store (in my front room).
Mind you........ it still leaks like a soft top around the edges anyway.
You gota love British Leyland......