I'm going to be vulgar here for a moment and talk money: Until now, I hadn't looked very far past the cost of the 3-fold roof chop. I would ideally get someone with experience of this job to fit it, then there's the cost of re-covering it. Putting aside any painting costs, what should I expect the installation and the re-covering costs to run to, any ideas?
tman wrote:
H'mmm, the recovering I wouldn't think would be too expensive as it's clearly not as difficult and complicated as a Cabrio hood. My car's former owner put a replacement cover on his 54 Ragtop (see below) as the cover was red which looked out of place. Would have to ask Mike where but that one came from the States.
As to fitting cost. Tricky. I would think it's at least a couple days work. So £30 an hour, 8 hours a day?
If you recall Ultra VW just ran a series of articles detailing the fitmet of an OG ragtop. Give Ben Lewis of Evil Ben's a call Andrew. He's more than capable of doing a great job of it and you'd also have a nice time in Cornwall to boot! :wink: Only one place for paint, TQR in Bude. I'm sure just the top of the roof would need painting, down to the bottom of the cooling vents and to the inside of the rain gutters, carefully blending out down the windscreen pillars. Talk to Gav at TQR. He and Ben work closely together so I'm sure they could get it all sorted for you.
As to putting it back to hardtop, I personally wouldn't consider that as it's a pretty hard thing to do without some major surgery. It would be very difficult to just drop in and weld a piece of roof and matches your hole and then would look right, and the only other alternative is to cut through the pillars and posts which is just unpalatable.
Oi, LOL! That's the first time I've knowingly been referred to as "the old man". 😳
tman wrote:
:lol: :lol: Sorry, no offence indended.:wink: