T-Tops
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Melting Slicks
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From: 406ci SB, AFR 180 Heads - 490 HP @5,600 RPM 529 lb-ft @ 4,100 RPM
T-Tops
For those of us were summer is just starting, where /how do you store your T-tops when they are not on your car. I leave mine on while the cars are in the garage, but just lay them in the corner otherwise when I go out driving. The 79 is glass, but the 71 & 72 are painted. I hate those T-top bags, has anyone a good way of storing them, a shelf or cupboard design that protects them...?
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From: San Diego - Deep Within The State of CONFUSION!
Home depot sells wall brackets for 4.95 each that hold 50 pounds and are padded.
I hung two of them on the wall and drove nails into the wall joists about a foot either side of them, for bungee cords to stretch across the tops laterally.
Very VERY low tech but just as effective. I put the bungees across the tops after these shots were taken.
I hung two of them on the wall and drove nails into the wall joists about a foot either side of them, for bungee cords to stretch across the tops laterally.
Very VERY low tech but just as effective. I put the bungees across the tops after these shots were taken.
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From: San Diego - Deep Within The State of CONFUSION!
Originally Posted by FKING1
Very clever & a good post.
Fred
Fred
Thanks Fred. the funny thing is that when wife and I were in Home Depot that Saturday, I picked up the brackets just KNOWing that I'd find a use for them. They sat in the garage for a week before the tops came off the vette the very next time.
I screwed a pair of 2x4's across the wall beams and then screwed the brackets right to them. Used them all last Summer and now this year, they will get plenty of use again.
