Hard Top

[Excaliber]

With the windows OFF I don't think cockpit heat would be 'that bad'. I used to run my soft top a LOT here in Hawaii just for protection from the sun and to keep COOLER. Heck I even RACED with the soft top on (there is NO shade at the race track, period)!

I'd run it, I'd just remove the side windows. How do hard\soft tops look? It depends on the car and the top. I always thought my Excalibur looked pretty good with the soft top up. Not sure that would hold true for the ERA. I think THIS hard top would look good on most any replica (or even a continuation Shelby).

[map]

MrBruce FIA roof..
More pic's on the FiberGlass page...
http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2095964314

[Gav]

I have had my eye on one of those 'Le Mans' roofs for some time, but it will not happen until the car is rego'd.
If I can't get one of them to fit I'll be making my own.
It might be dry out here, but the sun is too hot for open air driving in the summer!

[Rebel1]

Gav, Like you I like these hardtops. Here is an english one.

http://www.v8cobra.co.uk/hardtop.htm

But, gotta tell ya. A little birdie told me that Homebush is making one.

Cheers

[Gav]

Are they horn or what?

[demicobra]

Hey Rebel,

What do you think of these hard tops?











All Kirkham`s

Regards

Nick

[db replicas]

Hello guys.
One of my tops is due to be shipped to Oregon (USA) later this month. I will tell my customer that there is some interest on here and maybe he can get a mould taken from it to save everyone else the silly shipping costs and make himself a little money back.

I found that the shape across the trunk/boot lid is similar on a few cars over here, but the shape over the rear wings/fenders is very different.

We had to also extend the roof over the cockpit to reach the screen on the Dax, the distance on a dax from the "B" post to the point where the rear of the screen pillar passes through the body is 760mm approx (From memory).
From this the screen rake is critical. And this was way before we got into working out a way to make a suitable tailgate.
The rear screens are bespoke but I'm sure you could get these copied in the States for a lot less that we had to pay to get it developed in the UK.

Regards.
Dave Brookes www.v8cobra.com
A few more pictures here too:- http://www.ninebean.com/friends/gall.../500/ppuser/12

[Rebel1]

Hey Dave, Thanks for the info on your hardtop.

However, you should note that most of comments in this thread are from us Aussies.

Now....me thinks, given you lot (read English gentry ), convicted and sentenced one of my relatives to this penal colony for not paying his taxes to some bent landowner, that you should make amends by sending me one of your hardtops.

I'll then forgive you and promise that I'll have it flopped and on the market in no time at all.

Cheers Dave....great top you have.

[Rebel1]

Hey Nick, Given your dyslexia is giving you hell this morning I'll assume you mean what do I think of that Kirkham hard top.

I think it is blu$$y awful. . But only because it's made of that same stuff they use to make those funny engines.

Now, If I had a Kirkham complete with that matching hard top then it would be a whole different story.

Can you imagine the flak you would get from the Dept of Transport if you drove a polished Kirkham. I remember the days we had to blacken out the chrome windshield frames.

I can also remember once following a cobra with a polished stainless fuel tank and the sun reflecting off the tank. Grrrrrrrrrr .

[sambo]

Dave, I've had my eye on the v8cobra hardtops for a while now. As this is actually the Australian arm of the forum, would you be kind enough to provide us with an estimate on shipping to Australia?

Thanks,
Paul

[sambo]

Dave, from that link you provided - this has to be one of the finest Cobra interiors I've ever seen.

[sambo]

That could be Harrison's driveway actually.

[PCC]

First one definitely.

Second one - no, Warwick doesn't have palms at the front of his work shed

[Wazza]

Originally Posted by PCC

First one definitely.

Second one - no, Warwick doesn't have palms at the front of his work shed

You're HALF right,

The rear view was taken at Warwicks place after I got the hard top fitted.
And the "Palm Trees" shot was at Mum's place in Ipswich.

I'm also including another shot, when I dropped into Mums on the way home from racing...must have been raining, because I had the soft top on that time.
Also another shot, just to show that I don't always have a roof on the car....actually hardly ever.








The photos just reminded me of what Mum's place was always like...
poor little bugger spent 30 years making the most beautiful double block garden, and now because of the never ending drought...it's just about all gone.

Brown grass and dead plants......pretty nasty.


Warren.

[sambo]

No palms in the top photo and I was there only a few months ago... still, could be another factory.

[sambo]

Wazza, tell her to grab some of that gray water piping and feed it from the washing machine outlet hose - my mate's done it and his back yard is unbelievable. Mind you, they experience minor flooding when doing a double load on the weekends.

[Wazza]

Sambo...

My mother would be the biggest "water miser" on the planet.

Told me on the weekend, that she washes her clothes, catches the water as the machine drains and spins her clothes, then puts the water back in to the machine and starts again, and THEN a third time !!

AFTER all of this she then catches every drop and pours it on the few plants she can keep alive.

Only allowed a couple of hours to water plants, and only allowed to use buckets...as per Level 5 restrictions....and she uses every minute she can, but always reuses every drop in the house.
If everyone was like mum, we'd be tipping water out of the dams to stop them from overflowing !!!
Almost!

Warren.

[sambo]

That's inspiration for us all - and I thought I was doing my bit with the large bucket under the shower!

[db replicas]

For anyone who is interested, my top would cost around £445 GB Pounds to either Sydney or Perth.

[Tenrocca]

Does anyone have any pics of how a hardtop attached at the screen and the back - and also how clean it looks one removed (ie, what hardware attaches to the body).

Cheers.