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

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Brian, Beutiful work that looks great for a long trip. I am facing a similar situation but for local driving how do you open the door or feed coins to a toll booth? Another problem which you avoided is that with a chopped windshield there is not room for much more on the vertical supports or stanchions to attach the front edges of cloth side curtains. After thinking about it I sort of favor zipper closure along the upper edge and back edge with just a flap over the top of the door similar to what is on Jeeps. My chopped stanchions are pretty short and I do not relish drilling more threaded holes into the stainless stanchions for snaps on the front edge of the side curtains so I think I can just use the slack I presenty have filled with angle-cut tubing for cloth side curtains, although that means taking off the two acorn nuts for the wind wings when I put on the side curtains. As with your clean setup it will be a sort of summer/winter arrangement but I think I can secure the front edge of the curtains with only the two acorn nuts on each side on the shortened stanchions and then use a zipper around the top and rear of the side curtain. When I come to a toll booth I can just unzip the lower rear corner of the curtain. As others have said, your work is beautiful and the finishing touch for the storage box in the bed is a master touch. Thanks for allowing me to rethink this and now I think I have my own solution using the two acorn nuts and a zipper. The top shop I have chatted with says they can sew up whatever I can draw up so all it takes money and I will work this summer for the cost. In the accompanying picture you can see my much lower quality workmanship on the chopped stanchions where I had a real hassle drilling through the stainless but now I can turn the dumb angle-cut hose spacers to good advantage by using the slack for the side curtains. Thanks for sharing your excellent design concepts and stimulating my thinking on this.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder