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CMA wrote:

CMA wrote: Does anyone have a few pictures of this bar, the edge of the hood its fitted to and the top of the windscreen as I'm going to be looking at getting a hood sorted in the next few weeks and need some ideas how to fix it to the windscreen top.

Also if anyone has pics of the internal support bars they would help too.

Cheers

Rob

Anyone able to take a few pics for me please?

May have time on Tuesday to get in the garage and take pictures and could measure also

George

Thanks George.

Sorry for the delay been busy and then ill









If you need anything else just shout and will see what I can do.

George

Thanks for these George, glad your feeling better.

If there is a chance to photo the front bit that attaches to the windscreen if you get chance that would be great.

Cheers

Rob

I am will try to do that this weekend

Hi I havn't been here for a while - and just noticed this thread

I've had my car since 1997 which gives a little perspective.
Back then, I had to get my hood altered so I actually visited the hood maker, but I had been wracking my brain for about two days trying to think who & where when it suddenly came to me!

Suffolk Trimmers - and they are still around!
(Alot of boat stuff but they still do mention car hoods on their website)

Grimstone End
Pakenham
IP31 2LZ
01359 235268
http://www.suffolktrimmers.co.uk
suffolktrimmers@shetlandboats.co.uk

Of course this does not guarantee they still have the patterns but has to be worth a shot!
This may well predate Tim, so mention Peter Powell and even Jeremy Phillips when enquiring.

Weirdly, my hood is fine - which just goes to show how much use it hasn't had!

I have a hood and frame but no front cross beam going if your intersted as i had the original roll bar raised and had a new hood just made. Phil

I know this is an ancient thread, but with this weather I'm trawling to look for a hood, a design or a contact. I've had no luck getting hold of softbitsforsevens, or any of the others listed in various threads.
(That bit took ages as apparently 'hood' is a too common word to search!? Aargh)

If you or anyone can help, please let me know. The 'old' girl is just through SVA and DVLA shenanigans after 9 years build time and is now on the road, on a Q-plate, but cant have everything.

Will repost in a new thread if easier, but some sort of sticky post for various common problems would be useful on the forum.

p.s. Does anyone know what Tim is doing these days, or is the whole SSC piece in cold storage indefinitely?

lambostylus wrote:I know this is an ancient thread, but with this weather I'm trawling to look for a hood, a design or a contact. I've had no luck getting hold of softbitsforsevens, or any of the others listed in various threads.
(That bit took ages as apparently 'hood' is a too common word to search!? Aargh)

If you or anyone can help, please let me know. The 'old' girl is just through SVA and DVLA shenanigans after 9 years build time and is now on the road, on a Q-plate, but cant have everything.

Will repost in a new thread if easier, but some sort of sticky post for various common problems would be useful on the forum.

p.s. Does anyone know what Tim is doing these days, or is the whole SSC piece in cold storage indefinitely?

Tim is going abroad quite a lot with the ''John Lloyd'' rally team plus he's got his build/improve/refurbish business and gets regular work in and around Wales. No plans to restart SSC BUT still owns the rights etc. At the moment he's restoring his own Stylus RT that's been stood for several years now --- so hopes to get it on track at some point in 2012

I'm surprised you can't contact JILL JUDD --- softbitsforsevens though Try suffolk trimmers in the previous post

Bring the Stylus out for a ride to my house --- we'll have a tyre kick or two I seem to remember you are local to me -- ish

How about a HARDTOP???

New thread to follow once I have uploaded some photos.

Hardtop is a nice idea, however apart from the practicality aspect, I seem to recall a comment from quite a few years back about the wing effect that this may create. Obvious answer is to balance with a rear wing, but not sure what the effect would be on the front?

Anyone friendly with a university wind tunnel??

Although a semi-top would look pretty cool. (permanent from the roll bar back and a lift-out top that could store in the boot?)

I remember the thread; one of the final points raised that I agree with is that the shape is likely to be very similar to the soft-top roof, as such the lift experienced will also be similar.

Based on the size of the boot, the T-bar option is the only way you would have a workable solution, unless you could fit the panel between the roof and the roll bar. I'm working on a similar idea, but just the panel that runs from the top of the windscreen to roll bar, similar to the splash hoods you see on 7's but out of fibreglass or carbon rather than fabric.