Hardtops

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I want a vinyl covered one or refurb mine and cover it in vinyl as I've got a brand new Webasto vinyl sliding sunroof that I bought for a 1600E years ago and have a crazy idea about fitting it into a Stag hardtop. My hardtop is good but requires repairs to where it fixes down behind the B posts has anybody tackled this repair?

Dave

look in DJT photo album,im sure he has done that repair

dave

[mike@thenook]

I want a vinyl covered one or refurb mine and cover it in vinyl as I've got a brand new Webasto vinyl sliding sunroof that I bought for a 1600E years ago and have a crazy idea about fitting it into a Stag hardtop. My hardtop is good but requires repairs to where it fixes down behind the B posts has anybody tackled this repair?

Dave - I've been thinking about doing the very same with my hardtop but I'm just not sure about how the
locking catch would sit above the t bar, could you get to it?
i saw a guy with a TR6 once with a webasto 'd hardtop and I thought then what a good idea but of course no T bar to get in the way.
I often wonder why now no modern cars have a good old webasto roof instead of glass or metal. The openings are often far too small and our discovery 3 being a typical example. Huge roof with a tiny sunroof opening and a mass of glass behind it. Now with a full length webasto it would be brilliant!
Let me know if you do the job Dave, I'd love to know how it comes out.

Cheers

[Dave M]

Hi Mike
Never thought about the opening handle hitting the tee bar, will have to see if there's a way around that, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Would have been a shock if I had cut the hole out and then found I couldn't open the sunroof

[mike@thenook]

That's the sort of thing I'd do Dave!

[Dave M]

That's the sort of thing I'd do Dave!

I will be disappointed if I can't do it Mike as I've had this idea for a while and the sunroof for even longer. I now need to look at the sunroof to see how the handle works, had it about 30 years and I've never opened the box. Wish I had kept the 1600E I bought it for as well��

[mike@thenook]

Yes,

I feel like that with the 3 GT6's I had and the two Vitesse's - never realised then!

[TR5convalescent]

Someone else here posted a pic of their white car with a black hardtop a year or so since. It looked fantastic!

[Dave M]

Yea that's the look I'm after, very 70s retro.

[Motorsport Micky]

Dave - I've been thinking about doing the very same with my hardtop but I'm just not sure about how the
locking catch would sit above the t bar, could you get to it?
i saw a guy with a TR6 once with a webasto 'd hardtop and I thought then what a good idea but of course no T bar to get in the way.
I often wonder why now no modern cars have a good old webasto roof instead of glass or metal. The openings are often far too small and our discovery 3 being a typical example. Huge roof with a tiny sunroof opening and a mass of glass behind it. Now with a full length webasto it would be brilliant!
Let me know if you do the job Dave, I'd love to know how it comes out.

Cheers

The Webasto fitment removes a huge amount of material and compromises the roof strength by preventing the transference of across roof stresses which is designed into modern factory shell stressed designs. Hence that's why the "good ol Webasto" is a thing of the past.

Micky

[DJT]

Someone else here posted a pic of their white car with a black hardtop a year or so since. It looked fantastic!

Black suits many colours. This is the same top fitted to different Stags:

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[Dave M]

Black suits many colours. This is the same top fitted to different Stags:

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Looks really good Dave.

[milothedog]

The Webasto fitment removes a huge amount of material and compromises the roof strength by preventing the transference of across roof stresses which is designed into modern factory shell stressed designs. Hence that's why the "good ol Webasto" is a thing of the past.

Micky

I also seem to remember seeing some cars where the roof panel had started to tear diagonally outwards from the front corners of the sunroof aperture due to body movement and loss of rigidity of the roof panel. Still like them though

Ian.

[Dave M]

I also seem to remember seeing some cars where the roof panel had started to tear diagonally outwards from the front corners of the sunroof aperture due to body movement and loss of rigidity of the roof panel. Still like them though

Ian.

Useful info Mikey and Ian, can't see this being an issue with the Stag hardtop but I am surprised it hasn't been done before. I have seen a hardtop with removable sections similar to a Toyota MR2 but not a Webasto.