i learned something new today - the rear window can be repaired without replacing the entire top
before we get into the obvious issues of faded canvas, vs non faded canvas, aged canvas, or any of that, let's just deal with the budget repair of replacing only the plastic window
until today i thought you had to remove the entire top and refit it to do this
NOT SO!
i was speaking to notthd on the phone today, who has done this, and he explained to me something about the construction of the top that i did not know - i've never had mine apart, so i had no reason to look into this - the rear canvas section is not sewn to the top section - it is screwed down - basically the top section lays over the rear section, and hardware screws them down to the rail - very cool actually
so, it turns out, that if you are handy, you can remove the rear section yourself, take it to your local upholstery shop, have a new plastic window sewn in for a couple hundred bucks, and reassemble
this is especially good news for me, because now i can buy an extra rear section and have a zip out rear window installed without jeopardizing the entire top
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