Hello all, thank you for allowing me to join. I'm in the USA and working on fitting a hardtop to my Factory Five I've been looking for one for a while and stumbled on one that is pretty close in appearance to the original Berry plastics tops that I've found photos of. While working on the top, I've also been looking ahead to side curtains. While researching, I found photos of a cobra with a hardtop and two sets of side curtains, one full frame and one 3/4 frame.
I was hoping that someone here may know more about these, and if there was a reason for the different type with the hardtop.
For anyone that's interested, here's a link to the forum thread documenting my hardtop project.
https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showthr ... post524416
And a photo of my car.
Thanks very much.
John
Greetings and some questions
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You're welcome to see my thread on Bubbletops elsewhere on this forum, and the latest article in the club mag.
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When you say one type of side screen is full size and another 3/4. Do you mean not full height or not full length?
My only thought is my wife likes me to use the side screens on their own in good weather to keep the noise of other vehicles down on the motorway. Tyre roar from cars with wide tyres becomes a little wearing on a longer journey. The other option is we use intercom headsets.
We do have a number of Factory Five owning members so perhaps they might know.
I admire your patience in modifying the hardtop. Clearly the supplier was way off the mark in getting the shape correct.
Peter C
My only thought is my wife likes me to use the side screens on their own in good weather to keep the noise of other vehicles down on the motorway. Tyre roar from cars with wide tyres becomes a little wearing on a longer journey. The other option is we use intercom headsets.
We do have a number of Factory Five owning members so perhaps they might know.
I admire your patience in modifying the hardtop. Clearly the supplier was way off the mark in getting the shape correct.
Peter C
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Maybe 3/4 refers to a standard sidescreen, and a full one has a welded in leading edge at the front?
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Yes, I was referring to the side screen frame. The more commonly seen one doesn’t have a metal frame at the front, but this other type does and I’ve only seen them on cars with hardtops.peterc wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 8:09 am When you say one type of side screen is full size and another 3/4. Do you mean not full height or not full length?
My only thought is my wife likes me to use the side screens on their own in good weather to keep the noise of other vehicles down on the motorway. Tyre roar from cars with wide tyres becomes a little wearing on a longer journey. The other option is we use intercom headsets.
We do have a number of Factory Five owning members so perhaps they might know.
I admire your patience in modifying the hardtop. Clearly the supplier was way off the mark in getting the shape correct.
Peter C
I don’t know where this top came from, it was on and ERA, but they don’t make a hard top.
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Here’s a photo of them on Hank Williams’s car
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I thought you meant physically only 3/4’s of the size. The Hawk range of cars don’t seem to have differing side screen design for hard top or soft top. Not sure why you would need it to be different as the side screen fits just inside the edge of windscreen regardless of the type of top.
If designed to fit I would expect the type with the front portion of frame would be better.
Obviously this is unique to another variety of replica. No doubt one of their owners would be able to expand on the reason.
Peter C
If designed to fit I would expect the type with the front portion of frame would be better.
Obviously this is unique to another variety of replica. No doubt one of their owners would be able to expand on the reason.
Peter C