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post Jun 25 2013, 08:06 PM
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Hi,

Short time listener, first time caller.

I have a targa top, with windows in the top.

This top does not fit into my trunk, so if I'm tooling around with the top down - going fast is my only current option to prevent getting wet.

Are there any options for temporary tops? Other than a tarp?

Thanks,

Tom.
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post Jun 25 2013, 08:19 PM
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You could purchase another top. Put out a WTB in classifies. Be sure to give your year because they are different.
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post Jun 25 2013, 08:21 PM
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Show us pics of the top
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post Jun 25 2013, 08:21 PM
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Do you mean like house or rv windows? Pics please.
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post Jun 25 2013, 09:08 PM
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post Jun 25 2013, 09:17 PM
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A bikini style would be cool...Like I had for my old CJ5.
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post Jun 25 2013, 09:20 PM
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How'd you know?

Yes, that's the car that I have. Just offloaded it this weekend. Restoring it to it's '86 glory.
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post Jun 25 2013, 10:20 PM
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Decent, unmolested tops aren't too hard to come by and fairly inexpensive, if you're patient.

I've had the idea of a folding frame with a canvas top for a long time ... may get around to actually fabricating one some day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)
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post Jun 25 2013, 10:40 PM
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Decent, unmolested tops aren't too hard to come by and fairly inexpensive, if you're patient.

I've had the idea of a folding frame with a canvas top for a long time ... may get around to actually fabricating one some day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)


Like this one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


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post Jun 25 2013, 11:27 PM
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QUOTE(euro911 @ Jun 25 2013, 11:20 PM) *

Decent, unmolested tops aren't too hard to come by and fairly inexpensive, if you're patient.

I've had the idea of a folding frame with a canvas top for a long time ... may get around to actually fabricating one some day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)


Like this one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Hey! Radness! A thin version I can roll up and stash easily would kick some ass!
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post Jun 26 2013, 02:24 AM
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Like this one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Garold, do you have any 'structural' pix of that? It looks very similar to the vision that's been floating in my gray matter.

Several years ago, I noticed another 914 in the parking lot at work. It had an nice aluminum surf rack that utilized the stock targa attachment points. I left the guy a note to call me. Ends up, this fellow employee has a lot of innovative ideas and other modifications on the car as well.

In any event, I told him that the way he had his rack mounted was the same method I was thinking of, except for attaching a fold-up scissor-frame for a canvas roof (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

I kept at him to join NARP and World, and after a couple of years, he finally did join up ... Mike (Ruby914).
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post Jun 26 2013, 02:39 AM
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Like this one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

aluminum surf rack that utilized the stock targa attachment points.


Pictures Please!!!!
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post Jun 26 2013, 06:45 AM
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Pictures later today, it is in storage and it is raining like crazy here right now. This came on my brother in laws 914 I found for him back Jan of 07. I found one other picture on my PC from the day we picked it up. More detailed pics later.



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post Jun 26 2013, 08:11 AM
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Pictures later today, it is in storage and it is raining like crazy here right now. This came on my brother in laws 914 I found for him back Jan of 07. I found one other picture on my PC from the day we picked it up. More detailed pics later.



Ok, that's exactly what I was thinking. Something that could be folded and stored in trunk.

The front on my car is useless, it's full of battery, radiator, oil cooler, fuel pumps, fuel tank. The rear is nice and carpeted, but too narrow and too shallow for the hard top.

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Ignore the garage, I need to clean it. I'm packing up all my squirreled away 2002 parts.

There's the existing hard top. Works fine, could use some weather stripping replacement around the door & top.

So, is the attachment hardware for the targa top hard to come by? I would imagine a front/rear frame made out of aluminium and simple tensioner would be good enough for canvas.
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post Jun 26 2013, 11:51 AM
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Is it caged? The stock top went in the rear trunk.
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post Jun 26 2013, 12:06 PM
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post Jun 26 2013, 06:25 PM
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Ok stopped raining long enough to take few pics. This top is made so that the rear stays attached to the targa bar and can be rolled up to give you the open top feel off the 914.

First pic is the top rolled up.
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Next two show the how the rear is built. It uses the rear part of the targa cut down to just past where the rear latches catch. He has a "clip" mounted tha will hook around the back side of the targa bar to help hold it in place.
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Next pic shows it rolled out on top of a regular targa top.
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Next pic shows the front. It uses the front half of a targa top just before where the latches mount. The middle has a handle mounted plus a bar that rotates out to give the center support when the top is closed.
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Last pics show that a long spring is mounted between the front & rear sections along the side window which is sewn in the canvas top and has a flap that goes along the inside & out of the side to help keep rain out.
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post Jun 27 2013, 07:13 AM
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Ok stopped raining long enough to take few pics. This top is made so that the rear stays attached to the targa bar and can be rolled up to give you the open top feel off the 914.

First pic is the top rolled up.

Next two show the how the rear is built. It uses the rear part of the targa cut down to just past where the rear latches catch. He has a "clip" mounted tha will hook around the back side of the targa bar to help hold it in place.

Next pic shows it rolled out on top of a regular targa top.

Next pic shows the front. It uses the front half of a targa top just before where the latches mount. The middle has a handle mounted plus a bar that rotates out to give the center support when the top is closed.


Last pics show that a long spring is mounted between the front & rear sections along the side window which is sewn in the canvas top and has a flap that goes along the inside & out of the side to help keep rain out.
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Garold, would you consider making and selling a recreation of these? Sewing up the top can't be much harder than making one of those fantastic service covers.
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post Jun 27 2013, 07:24 AM
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interesting but sort of goes against the clean and simple aspect of the targa top.
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post Jun 27 2013, 08:34 AM
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interesting but sort of goes against the clean and simple aspect of the targa top.


While I agree, but some here have a modified car and have no room in the trunk to store their top.

And Ross..............Um NO. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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