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Hi Eric will have a go at silvering your car, watch this space.
Was thinking it may need trimming the rear back to accommodate the top, might not look too bad and maybe add a drain hole of sorts.
Why not take a mold off a z3 hard top? it would be easy to chop and change a fibreglass roof to fit it could then be trimmed to match the car and have either an original glass or a different cars glass fitted. Ed.
Photoshopped a hard top to the Nubodi car and I like it!
Hells bells, that's nice!
Could the rear of the body by formed to fit the standard hard top, and a tonneau cover type glassfibre panel be fitted to fill the gap when using the soft top or open top?
don't you have the normal tonneau cover with your car?
Fits nicely
Hi, yes I just bought one, as mine didn't come with it.
I think its a good topic of discussion to see what could be achieved. Of course for those who have the coupe option only then it doesn't make any sense, for those with the soft top it gives us another option if it can be fitted.
Jets placed in offset position just like the original 250 SWB, 10cm from small bonnet edge on drivers side and 10" from small bonnet edge on passenger side. 8cm in from windscreen edge
Fully tested and works perfectly! just some small pipe tidying to do on the underside to make it neat and that jobs done eace:
Oh and forgot to say that the other 55 tyre arrived this afternoon so will get it fitted and have a look at the differences between that and the 65....
Back on the hard top I recon tribute could easily modify a roof from the coupe, would need amending around the screen and windows a lot though. Personally I'm not convinced that hard tops are needed modern soft tops are very good and fairly quiet. Plus storing a hard top is a pain. Ed
Eric - I have enjoyed seeing your car come together so well & so quickly.
I think it looks just right with the 55s, especially if you compare it to this real one.
Good luck, Paul.
The blue coupe pictured is the best looking SWB out there . I think those are 15" wheels with either 205 or 195/70 - 15's , the best combination in my opinion!
I think those are 15" wheels with either 205 or 195/70 - 15's , the best combination in my opinion!
SWBs were originally fitted with 15" wheels and 16"s came later. Most cars were fitted with 5 1/2x16 (source: Ken Gross)
SWB road cars were fitted with 185mm wide Pirelli Cinturato tyres, whether 15 or 16" diameter. These had the usual 82 series aspect ratio, and 70 series low profile radial tyres didn't appear until the late 60s (1968 I think) with the Cinturato and Michelin XWX.
Doing some quick calculations, your 235/55x17s have an overall diameter about 20mm less than 185x16 tyres, whilst the 65s are about 20mm bigger. A 60 series tyre will have about the same overall diameter as the 185x16!
The 235/65s have approximately the same sidewall height as the original 195s (approx 150mm) whilst the 55s will be about 20mm less.
eace:
going cheap 
