has anyone got a e30 hard top i could lend for a few days???

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:08 pm

i know this sounds like an unusual request but a friend of mine has a fibreglass shop and believes he can fabricate a copy if we had an orignal one to take a mould from.
Obviously i will make it worth ur while and u never know it might make a cheap alternative for the rest of us out there that can't bring there self to pay £800+ for one.

Im in the manchester area thanks

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:14 pm

Of course not!

What you need to do is invest the the capital, buy a hardtop, do whatever you need to do, then sell it for as much as you can. Your loss from what you buy, to what you sell, is your development costs. All the damage would be down to you.

Theres a frame under that fibreglass shell, that would need to be fabricated too.

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:17 pm

If it could have been done forless than the price of a used hardtop it would have been done by now!

crazy idea, do you know armani_b?

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:17 pm

Your best biting the bullet chap. The fiberglass route could be a shambles!

Also trying to get a zoner lend you an expensive bit of kit is unlikely!

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:19 pm

Of course you can lend me a hard-top for a few days. Not sure what I'd do with it though...

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:21 pm

suchy wrote:Of course you can lend me a hard-top for a few days. Not sure what I'd do with it though...

Hall way decoration??

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:23 pm

Z3I wrote:Of course not!

What you need to do is invest the the capital, buy a hardtop, do whatever you need to do, then sell it for as much as you can. Your loss from what you buy, to what you sell, is your development costs. All the damage would be down to you.

Theres a frame under that fibreglass shell, that would need to be fabricated too.

This. + I have a very tasty one for less than 800 sovs.
Recently bought from Z31 himself.

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:24 pm

Nobby_N wrote:
suchy wrote:Of course you can lend me a hard-top for a few days. Not sure what I'd do with it though...
Hall way decoration??

I was thinking of making a mess all over it and then cracking it before returning back to the owner. That's cool right?

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:25 pm

Can i Hire your e30 ?

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:26 pm

Alex wrote:Can i Hire your e30 ?

Only if it's for a fashion shoot

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:50 pm

£800 isn't so much that if your mate had a serious plan to do this, you couldn't rustle it up between you.

I'd lend you one, but I would require an £800 deposit plus shipping costs and a look at your girlfriend's tits.

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:55 pm

snakebrain wrote:£800 isn't so much that if your mate had a serious plan to do this, you couldn't rustle it up between you.

I'd lend you one, but I would require an £800 deposit plus shipping costs and a look at your girlfriend's tits.

Normal tradings terms and conditions then...

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:16 pm

HAHA,

i bought my vinyl hardtop from a zoner called bally, he charged me £550 and threw in a hardtop stand and indoor dust cover. Ive seen many hardtops go for around the 5-600 mark, if you want to venture into this fibre-ass hardtop shyte and you haven't got enough to buy your own then your pretty much fooked.

Sorry but i have to agree with z31, snakebrain and suchy, you have come into the den and pitched this rubbish idea of creating a fibreglass hardtop and yet you have not invested a penny into the business. I am not prepared to sacrifice my hardtop and also dont see a future in the product. So for that reason IM OUT..

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:28 pm

kangman wrote:Sorry but i have to agree with Theo, Peter and Duncan

Fixed..

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:09 pm

well thanks guys but in response to u all iv seen this guy turn out complete kit cars, pods for camper vans, cozzi body panels for over 20 years!! i would even go as far to say he could make a carbon copy of ur mr's tits and post them to u don't worry we already have the mould!

seriously though take this piss if u like but im not some little goon with no idea what im talking about the cost of fabricating the roof would be low as the friend is my brother in law who already makes hard tops for mx5's and old mg's so he's not inexperienced in the game, we will use the frame from a soft top roof that i have already purchased with the fixings at the back altered slightly and using the original fasterners at the front, even thought of using more of the lines of the e30 coupe at the back,

I will buy one and i have been looking but i still want to have ago just wanted to start sooner rather than later, maybe i should of titled the thread better as i could actualy take a mould from a roof where eva it's stored and it wouldn't get damaged or scratched as it would be covered before the mould was taken.

i have the minerals have u!!

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:25 pm

Its your lucky day ! Poundland are doing a special offer on E30 hardtop heated rear screens and the neccesary rubber seals , fill yer boots !

Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:44 pm

pacerpete wrote:Its your lucky day ! Poundland are doing a special offer on E30 hardtop heated rear screens and the neccesary rubber seals , fill yer boots !

that's good news ! I'm fairly sure the op wasn't intending on using a rear window in his fibregash topped turd,

no doubt he's still working on the ratchet strap/bungee style fixings I'm sure he will be delighted

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:30 am

glad your all so helpful what a cracking set of people! iv spent alot of time on my e30 and e30topless maybe you should look at my turd before making your snide remarks! my car is spotless, but you hide behind your computer pal

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:14 am

This is just forum banter Voodoo, don't be so thin-skinned. If you come online and ask to borrow one of the most sought-after and valuable E30 accessories without offering anything in turn, you're going to take some ribbing for it.

Not as much as you will for having BK Reps and eyebrows on your cabriolet though

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:02 am

LOL Showstopper that at your local B&Q car park i bet init bruv!

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:38 am

Grrrmachine wrote:This is just forum banter Voodoo, don't be so thin-skinned. If you come online and ask to borrow one of the most sought-after and valuable E30 accessories without offering anything in turn, you're going to take some ribbing for it.

^^This Voodoo^^

I thought it was quite tame actually!

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:33 am

Alex wrote:Can i Hire your e30 ?

That reminds me of this little gem of a thread.
Remember it???

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... c&t=119968

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:30 pm

Nobby_N wrote:LOL Showstopper that at your local B&Q car park i bet init bruv!

. Ur a tw@t ain't ya

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:36 pm

Grrrmachine wrote:This is just forum banter Voodoo, don't be so thin-skinned. If you come online and ask to borrow one of the most sought-after and valuable E30 accessories without offering anything in turn, you're going to take some ribbing for it.

Not as much as you will for having BK Reps and eyebrows on your cabriolet though

. If u read my original thread it did say I would make it worth ur while it was just not visable as I used text speak. And every body without a hard top would benefit if it worked and we could supply these roofs

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:38 pm

Grrrmachine wrote:This is just forum banter Voodoo, don't be so thin-skinned. If you come online and ask to borrow one of the most sought-after and valuable E30 accessories without offering anything in turn, you're going to take some ribbing for it.

Not as much as you will for having BK Reps and eyebrows on your cabriolet though

there's no eyebrows on my car mate and the alpina copy's are winter wheel she normally wears 16" rota cups

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:46 pm

e30voodoo wrote: Not as much as you will for having BK Reps and eyebrows on your cabriolet though

there's no eyebrows on my car mate and the alpina copy's are winter wheel she normally wears 16" rota cups[/quote]

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:48 pm

Best advise is to not ask strangers for £500+ worth of kit to borrow. Get the capital behind you and then start your venture... Expect fack all for free in this life and you wint have people on the internet taking the pish

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:51 pm

Jim320i wrote:Best advise is to not ask strangers for £500+ worth of kit to borrow. Get the capital behind you and then start your venture... Expect fack all for free in this life and you wint have people on the internet taking the pish

But please keep the supply of material coming as we do love a good p*ss-take here

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:10 pm

suchy wrote:
Jim320i wrote:Best advise is to not ask strangers for £500+ worth of kit to borrow. Get the capital behind you and then start your venture... Expect fack all for free in this life and you wint have people on the internet taking the pish
But please keep the supply of material coming as we do love a good p*ss-take here

Yes, forgot to add this bit.

Post Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:43 pm

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...and that's what i reckon will solve everyones problems