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Originally Posted by Mike Peters
Synchro: I like your way of fastening your Phaeton top to the back of the body better than our way. We Americans can be a bit provincial when it comes to matters such as this, but in the spirit of open mindedness, let's compare the two.
You can see in these photos of our car that the rear curtain is tacked permanently to the rear tack rail. First, the curtain itself is tacked down, and then covered and tacked again with hidem welting to cover the first set of tacks. This is all very nice and lovely until such time that one may want to remove the top, as Ford 1930 does in order to trailer his car without damaging the top.
With your lift a dot system, it's a simple matter of unfastening the rear curtain from the tack rail and undoing the two nuts holding the main top bow to the body. As far as I know, all Phaetons sold in the US were all tacked down permanently like mine.
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That makers a neat job of attaching the hood and it would be cheaper. That will be why Ford did it that way, IMO.
I have awful trouble uploading photos and my tourer is put away for the duration of this pandemic. Who knows when we will be able to use our cars again - not for the foreseeable anyway. Otherwise, I'd post a photo.
PS yesterday, we were told that it is unlikely that there will be any travel between here and the US or Europe for all of next year but IMO, it will all depend on t the arrival and administration of a vaccine.