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Fri 20 Jun 2008 00:59
rag tops - wrigley
Hi guys

My missus is changing her motor this year and fancies a rag top any advice

she likes the 206 but I said it would be to small and I ve been told by my pal who works for r.a.c. that then are prone to electric roof mechanism problems does same apply to 307 and what about renault megane what would be a stylish looking convertable medium size that is relatively trouble free and won,t break the bank
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Fri 20 Jun 2008 07:35
rag tops - L'escargot
They're very easy for lowlife to get into by just slashing the rag top.

Edited by L'escargot on 20/06/2008 at 07:36

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Fri 20 Jun 2008 08:28
rag tops - welshlad
and also run the risk of the same lowlifes just slashing the roof for the hell of it
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Fri 20 Jun 2008 08:40
rag tops - Round The Bend
Er, are n't these compact coupes? Lowlife would need at least a tin opener to get in.
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Fri 20 Jun 2008 09:04
rag tops - Glacier
Saab 900 or early 9-3?
Too big?
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Fri 20 Jun 2008 18:09
rag tops - wrigley
come on lads I like the saab myself but she says its drugs pusher motor so what about some realistic sugestions

ta
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Fri 20 Jun 2008 19:00
rag tops - Lud
The solution to the vulnerability (and coldness and draughtiness in winter) of ragtops is a decent removable hardtop. Aftermarket ones of varying aesthetic merit used to be sold for small sports cars in the fifties and sixties. More recently, and a long way upmarket, I have seen a beautifully made and designed hardtop on a Porsche 911 Cabriolet, OE I imagine and a pretty penny.

I don't much like these folding-tintop jobs myself but if there's one with a reliable mechanism that might be the thing for someone who wants that sort of car if it's going to be left in the street anywhere these days.

Speaking of that sort of car, a friend now dead alas used in the fifties and sixties to call Sprites, Midgets and so on 'wine gums'. Insulting but apt, like many of his bons mots. When the Range Rover appeared in the late sixties he took one look at it and said: 'The fuzz car of the seventies.'
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