Ditched the door mirrors.

[pethier]

 

I'd rather drive the Seven with top and no doors than with doors and no top.   I like the shade.  I also like the fact that my top has a zipper-opening back window,  

 

The only reason I still had the mirrors on the doors is because they held up the doors on the "towel bar" I fabricated on the wall of my shop.  I had no way to store them so they would not get damaged. 

 

Today i removed the mirrors and filled the holes with pop rivets.  

 

I slid each door into a wildly-oversized pillowcase.

 

Product Dimensions

:  40"L x 31"W.

Each door actually will turn sideways in the pillowcase, leaving a large area to fold over.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WTL99LZ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

 

Now I need to figure out how to hang up each door-bearing pillowcase in the shop and on the wall in my trailer.

 

[CBuff]

I literally was just thinking of door storage and thought last night. Maybe a large pillow case would work.  Thanks for the timely confirmation.  

[pethier]

Also just received a package of zipper bags.  40"x52".

 

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Big-Zip-Lock-similar-ZIPLOC-Zipper-Resealable-Storage-Clear-Bags-3MIL-Jumbo-XL-SUPER-JUMBO-5-PACK/787221166?athbdg=L1100&from=/search

 

 

 

These are actually larger than the ZipLoc bags I bought off the shelf at Walmart back in 2008 for my first Caterham.  I can't seem to find those anymore.

[IamScotticus]

How much flappity-flap does a hood make at speed <50mph?

Or a bikini top?

I never got around to trying it.

Edited May 21, 2024 by IamScotticus

[pethier]

3 hours ago, IamScotticus said:

How much flappity-flap does a hood make at speed <50mph?

Or a bikini top?

I never got around to trying it.

Mine makes no flappity-flap at all at freeway speed, much less below 50mph.  The Velcro around the taller top bow is supposed to prevent flutter, but my top fits so tightly, I don't think it makes any difference.

 

Bikini?  I think Bimini is more-accurate.  I suspect bikini was an error that took hold among non-boat people.  Of course, my friend Stephen calls his a Birkini, it being on his Birkin.

 

When we had my wife's TR4, I was annoyed that the back window did not zip open.  I managed to pick up a used white top with discolored windows.  I razor-bladed out all three windows.  The top was so shrunken that I could not raise both ends of the bows all the way, so I left the right one loose.  We enjoyed the shade and the breeze.  We carried both tops in the car all the time.  We drove the car with the cockeyed white top when we were in California. I even drove the VTR autocross that way.

 

I was quite chuffed to discover after I bought my present Caterham that the backlight does zip open.  Very pleasant on a sunny day, no doors, no windwings.

 

Whether you call it a half-hood or a Bimini, I don't think I will get one.  I'm not razor-blading my quarter-lights, either...