Thread: Now I have to come up with some sidecurtains---

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Brian,
In retrospect, is there any way you could have fabricated them so that the top edge sliped up between the top and the bow over the door?...to prevent the top of the lexan from flexing. By the way, thank you SO much for the drawing of the extended rear spring hanger...

Originally Posted by 345 DeSoto

Brian,
In retrospect, is there any way you could have fabricated them so that the top edge sliped up between the top and the bow over the door?...to prevent the top of the lexan from flexing. By the way, thank you SO much for the drawing of the extended rear spring hanger...

Yes, I suppose anything is possible. The issue is that I was working with a finished top frame and top. Although the top tube and the glass are "in line" at the rear of the window opening, by the time you get up to the front of the window opening where the side-window tucks in behind the windshield post, the tube is 2 1/2" further out away from the top of the sidewindow. I could have remedied this by peeling back the top material and welding a wedge shaped peice of #14 ga. sheet metal horizontally to the inside edge of the top frame tube, repainted everything, then fixed the canvas top material.---However, that was far more work than I wanted to get involved in. I have had the car for a test drive with the additional peice of aluminum channel siliconed to the top edge of the side window, and that fixes about 95% of the flex anyways.---Brian