When I built my roadster pickup 5 years ago, I didn't really plan on any long haul cruising. I ran it one year without any top, then designed and built the top it currently has. To date, my longest cruises have been in Ontario, a maximum of 250 miles in a days travel. Thats great in sunny, 80 degree weather, but I have driven home from some of my overnight travels the next day in damn cold, rainy miserable weather conditions.

Okay---so I like to think of myself as a tough old bird--I keep my big leather jacket in the back of the rpu for weather exactly like that.

But---I've just signed up for the BIG ONE--The Canadian Hotrod tour down to the east coast and back---in July---about a 2500 mile round trip. And I ain't that tough!!! Since my roadster top is of the non folding variety, and is about 6" wider than my windshield posts, and was never designed to work with side curtains, this is going to call for some inginuity.

I'm not thinking of sewn or zipped, or snapped in cloth sidecurtains---more like rigid lexan sidewindows that can be attached from inside the car after I get in. They won't open with the door---I will have to un-attach them to get out of the car. and they mustn't scratch or even contact my nice painted door tops. And none of the hardware that holds them in place must be visible when they are not in place.---They won't be "air-tight" even---they'll just fill up MOST of that gaping hole in each side of the cab when I'm driving.

Quite a challenge, but I do have something in mind.

I will keep you posted with pictures as this develops.---Brian