Harve, Here is the secret that I discovered with mounting the factory hardtop on my 72 Spitfire.
The car starts to sag in the middle from metal fatigue after all these years. Not much, but enough for the distance between the rear holes on the car and the holes over the windscreen to shorten. As a result, the holes no longer line up with the hardtop. The solution, place a bottle jack under the frame rails midway between the wheels on both sides of the car. As you jack up each side evenly, the weight of the end of the car that is heaviest will cause the car to lose its sag and the distance between the front and back holes will lengthen allowing you to get the bolts started. Do it carefully, remembering to block both the front and back wheels since depending on jack placement either the front or back wheels will start to leave the ground. Good luck. Frank Drummond _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
