Wilsons Sandbox

Hans: This book can be ordered directly from the Octagon Car Club. Ken TC 4147 HANS HOLTMAN wrote:

> To everybody that gave me good advice in connection with mounting my new tonneau: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. > > Hans TS 1095 > > PS. To you English people in GB-land. Do you know where I can find Andrea Green s address. She is the author of "M.G. s On Patrol". > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

I apologize in advance. This thread will not die. After 20 years, I have decided to replace my tonneau. The drivers side is in 'shreads' literally from being folded under so many times in cold weather. the zipper has been replace twice, the edges repaired several times, the lift=a=-dot corner passenger side at end of zipper patched and repaired re-stitched MANY times. Time to get a new one. I keep the tonneau in the 3/4 position most of the time, zipping when car left out in parking lot etc at mall, work etc. Tonneau has worked well to keep 80% of weather out. When in 3/4 position, it keeps things behind seat (boot( from blowing around and keeps 'other' eyes off my spaces I carry just-in-case. Car goes in Thursday for fitting, to pick up Friday. Quoted price is $85-100. The one I am replacing is 20 years old and was $300 then. The canvass 1/2 tonneau fun 300-400. Once I see quality, if anyone else is interested, they may use mine as a pattern and go into production. They say they will fit lift-a-dots to my posts because they have the car. but mail order you would have to install your own to match. I promise not to ask about original location of pegs, exact angle of placement on cover, how many stitches were in each seam etc. Our cars were mostly hand built, standards did not exist in many areas of construction, they jus' made 'em like they felt at the moment, with whatever stocks, cloth, paint color was available. Part of the uniqueness, no two cars were ever exactly alike, so 'original must be qualified by who was working the shift on a particular day. Reginald and Clive always differed on which side to install the bolt from, Godfrey and Ian never installed the same number of posts in the same positions for tonneau. Paul Huck

----- Original Message ----- From: HANS HOLTMAN hholtman@get2net.dk> To: T-ABC Group MG-TABC@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 7:41 AM Subject: [mg-tabc] Thanks ! To everybody that gave me good advice in connection with mounting my new tonneau: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Hans TS 1095 PS. To you English people in GB-land. Do you know where I can find Andrea Green s address. She is the author of "M.G. s On Patrol". Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Message text written by "Paul Huck"

>Reginald and Clive always differed on which side to install the bolt

from, Godfrey and Ian never installed the same number of posts in the same positions for tonneau.

C Sherriff wrote:

> "Now I Hasten to point out that that Clive is not this Clive!!! who > being part Irish would have a solution to the which side thing - if > the bolt thread was not pointing at the hole it was obviously > intended to be inserted from the other side..........."

Two carpenters were nailing shingles onto the side of a house. I won't say they were Irish, and I won't say they weren't Irish. One of the carpenters noticed his companion was throwing half the nails away and inquired as to the reason for this odd behavior, to which the first carpenter replied, "well, on half the nails I pick up, the head is on the wrong end". The second carpenter merely laughed and said, "you damn fool, those ones are for the other side of the house!"