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As there are a lot of people excited and waiting on this I should briefly explain as some people may be upset at the last minute change of plan ... This morning my wife collapsed and as a result of the tests done today it appears she had a heart attack (age 34 ). All is as well as can be expected and it served as a warning shot.
I have re-arranged to take my car up to Maria next weekend instead as clearly my plans for this weekend have changed somewhat. So hopefully it won't be much longer ...
With all this interest, surely someone else is local to MU that could take the strain off Shamus?
Peter.
The guy at RACQ had sold his suzuki. I had offered Shamus to find some else up here but so far and if everything goes well, he is happy to bring the sierra up next weekend.
OK after some serious consideration and my mum promising to make me some funky car seat covers I have decided I need to see the clours before I can make a true choice of colour.. so..
Maria Is it possible to get samples of the colours either by pic of things made out of the colours or just photos of a swatch card.
Please?
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You can go to this web page and check the colors. www.nylex.com.au/marine/mariner.htm
They are showing just some of the colors. My supplier can get a marine blue, red, black, a ligth blue, dark blue (storm), grey (surf).
The colors in the web's char are a bit pale. In my chart samples of the fabric they are brighter.
Hope this helps.
Maria
update:
"I have been able to leave my Sierra with Maria as long as is necessary. They have a good setup there and it looks really promising. I quickly ran over the features of what would be considered a standard swb body and potential fitting points. Things like the studs and eyelets for the tonneau style cover, runners around the targa bar, and the windscreen channel/strip. Clearly Maria is designing it but I'm pretty sure after talking with her that she will account for the rear bars that drop at 45 degrees from the targa to the body as they are standard and required for roadworthy I think. Maria will also assume that people will be removing the crossbar that supports the rear of a full softtop if they haven't already. That's fair enough because otherwise it would just be led on top of the tonneau cover. I also pointed out that Sierra's have bumpstops as standard where the spare wheel meets the body - mine doesn't because the 31*10.5's need the bumpstops removed in order to mount it on the back. A wheelspacer might be useful there I guess. The only thing my car doesn't have is a standard rollbar - I'm not sure when they were introduced and how many people have them, however Maria is basically going to do 2 designs, one closely following the body as in the pics you originally posted and then a second design a little like a shortened fastback top with finishing tonneau. I think this second one will accomodate a factory fitted rollbar and cars with the rear seat in the rolled-forward position. They are going to develop the designs with cheap material so that they can test it fairly cheaply and then take a pattern from the most successful designs. As you know they already do very similar stuff for Jeeps. I think that about covers it. It will probably take until next weekend before I hear anything from Maria."
please pretty please make sure theres window over the drivers shoulder... thats the HUGEST downfall of these tops... looking over your shoulder to see who's next to you and getting a face full of canvas! =)
that looks UNREAL! =) very impressed with rear vision! gotta be the best windjammer top ive seen.
How does it attach to the targa bar?? velcro wrapping straps or?? im thinking that it'd be good to be able to adjust tightness to stop it flapping about once its stretched a bit after a few months in the sun..
really awesome though! cant wait to see how much $$$ shipped to perth =)
After Finally seeing how the new Esky looks in the zook...
I dun think I am going to get one of these tops. they look gret and all.. but the esky is about 20-30cm higher then the back of the zook so it's not going to fit.
I might still consider it for a day to day thing and just change pack to the full top when I need to.
but just one question on that pic.. what kind of position are the seats in there?
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). All is as well as can be expected and it served as a warning shot.
