[Rick Yeager]

OG, I bought a top kit from Shell Valley. I suspect that the top was a Robins top. Like everything else, it was close but did not fit. The body has a slight “twist” to it that makes the cloth top fit just a little cross ways. I have come very close to getting it but have not spent enough time with variables to maybe work it around to fit. A Robins might work for you, it is close. But fewer headaches would be to buy the boughs, and latches and take it to a shop and have it made specifically for your car. You described the top of the door better than I did but it was the same thing. The abnormal door top could cause you to have trouble getting the side curtains to fit. There will be a gap between the bottom of the side curtain and the top of the door. You might ask the person redoing the doors to try to flatten the top of the doors a little to make this less of a problem. From the gallery, you can see that the doors took a lot work.

Also the doors are at an odd angle to the body causing the front edge of the side curtains to not sit against the rear of the windshield frame right. The Cobra Restorers have the three mounting pegs which makes the side curtains a little more secure but the last post comes very close to the body and latch--something you may want to watch. Another unusual variable on installing the top, at least on mine, was that the rear bulkhead was not mounted into the rear quarter panels symmetrically. This made the main top post on the left go through the body between the bulkhead and the quarter panel. But on the right the top post came through the quarter panel on the inside of the bulkhead. So on the right side the post could be seen but not on the left. Not a big problem but a unique oddity.

Like others have suggested. It is very easy to put far more money into one these little cars than it would ever be worth. If it running, enjoy it and don’t seat the details too much.