Convertible top issues.

Nice work. Almost unnoticeable. I just finished sewing in a new back window on mine. Increased the size about 6" on either side for more visibility. I also cut away some material in the window openings to I can see cars without ducking. I will now have to make a new set of plexiglass windows. I notice your back window really wraps around. Nice.

IM makes the rear window unzippeable which allows you to fold it down and drive with a canopy so to speak.  It is folded down right in the pict to give access to the top underside for sewing.

Great job, the top looks nice and firmly in place.  It is kind of cool to be able to fix our cars compared to the plastic parts of the daily drivers

I added a zipper to my CMC top. It made a huge difference when driving with the top up and no side curtains - no more buffeting.

@Michael McKelvey posted:

I added a zipper to my CMC top. It made a huge difference when driving with the top up and no side curtains - no more buffeting.

Where did you add it and what does it do?

The zipper goes around the sides and top of the rear window allowing it to be opened and folded down.  It does what I said above.  It allows air to flow through instead of getting trapped in the back.

That is a great idea. Wish I had thought of that before I finished sewing the new window in.

Yeah, I felt bad for you that you didn't know about it.  But, your top looks great.

I didn't initially mention it because I didn't want to make you feel bad.

Don't feel bad original Roadsters did not have a zip down rear window at all.  

IM created it and adds it now to all it's car which to me is a great addition as Michael says you do not have to be buffeted by the wind.  

Actually, it goes like this, you drive top down and when your quota of sun is up you put up the canopy and you leave the rear window DOWN.  As you get hotter you turn on the AC and zip up the rear window, Power up the side windows and your in an AC chamber.

Oh btw you can with the top up and rear window down run some AC if your too hot at the foot well ... Talk about creature comforts :>  

I usually do top up and rear window down on long trips, like to Carlisle. I really hope Covid and my wife will allow making that trip this year.

@Michael McKelvey posted:

I usually do top up and rear window down on long trips, like to Carlisle. I really hope Covid and my wife will allow making that trip this year.

That works as a sun shade.  

I leave the long haired general at home, as she is really not a car lover    but the border crossings are never to my liking in any case.  

For the most part, my wife isn't a car lover either but she thinks she needs to watch over me.

If you have the heartfelt desire, you do what you want to do as no one knows just how many seasons remain on our calendars.

At my age, I am aware there is a limit to how many Speedster driving seasons and trips to Carlisle.  I hate spending so many of them limited by Covid.

@Michael McKelvey posted:

At my age, I am aware there is a limit to how many Speedster driving seasons and trips to Carlisle.  I hate spending so many of them limited by Covid.

My thoughts exactly.  Damn this pandemic.

@Alan Merklin posted:

If you have the heartfelt desire, you do what you want to do as no one knows just how many seasons remain on our calendars.

Fewer each year, Alan. 

In a Toronto region, the mayor of a well knows city requested data be cleaned up by the hospitals as the cases of covid being recorded from people showing up at hospitals for routine surgery was skewing the data sufficiently that he thought the data was misleading.   You see they were screened and found to be positive but were asymptomatic.  That made me think...I wonder if they screen routinely for HIV ?

More seriously of course, in what we are living today, whether you are fully vaccinated or not, anyone can be a carrier if infected and it is a fallacy to think that doubly vaccinated persons are not carriers if they happen to be asymptomatic.  The same fallacy exists that a non vaccinated person is causing the variants, that defies basic science.  Antibiotics create resistants strains and it is the same in the viral world.

The Omicron version seems to be so close to the common cold in symptoms (Sx) that 50% of people that have a cold are Cv positive.

The most logical approach now is that when you have cold symptoms you get a rapid test, if your positive get a viracidal drug.  Monoclonal Antibodies. etc  We are now 2 years into this nonsense, get to know what treatment options are near you, call them and make a plan!!!  See if your eligible for whatever treatment.

BTW I still can't figure out why there is simply one approach to treatment, vaccine or wait at home with nada!  

A relative had J&J in Detroit... they got covid, but they had no access it seems to any out patient treatment. They were so ill they could not get their head off the pillow and they had no other significant other to help them, as they were in hospital as well.  They recovered but not without much suffering.

I know there is a lot of controversy and differing opinions, as my wife always says read the room Ray,  but the only other choice is isolate and hope you get through it or land in hospital before you get treated.  

Enough said, you have a 1% chance of getting it ...

April 1st seems to be the date that I always start the spring drive, let's start counting the days !!!