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Originally Posted by Mike Peters
Synchro 909: According to John Charlton, American Phaetons are tacked permanently to the rear tack rail like mine is, while others are not. I didn't know that. I am curious as to how the top on your Australian Phaeton is secured to the body. Two nuts and it's off? Sounds like a better design than ours.
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Mike, I didn't know that about the American tourers either but now that it has been raised, I don't know how ours came ex factory. For as long as I have been aware, our hoods are done using a row of "lift the dot" fasteners across the back
https://www.jclarkemarine.com/blogs/...-dot-fasteners
To remove the hood, I unclip those, undo the nut each side and preferably with the help of another person to prevent scratching the paint, I lift it off.
Merely for appearances sake, I have a valence across the back to cover the clips. All of those horrible Ford clips along the sides for curtains are also replaced with these.
I have also made a tonneau cover that goes from the back of the front seat to the back of the back seat. It clips onto press studs in the back of the front seat and another row of lift the dots across the back. It clips onto the lift the dot posts along the side and there are holes for the side curtain posts to go through at the top of the doors. Once it is fitted, the back doors can't be opened without unclipping at least part of the cover and people these days can't work that out so everything under the cover is out of sight, out of mind and secure enough that we have never had a problem. It also stops things in the back being blown out when travelling with hood or just side curtains off. For 99% of runs, I leave the LHS (Kerb side) undone just far enough to be able to open the door to access the rear seat area under the cover. Best addition I have made to the car!