Re: [T3] my '67 is home. but no garage.

["Keith Park" <topnotch@nycap.rr.com>]

Wind is the enemy of woven tarps... stick you head under them on a sunny day
and youll see if there are any holes, wind also chafes the paint with the
tarp. I had my square covered one winter and had to buff out all the paint
in the spring.

Keith

>
> hmm. the fitted cover on the '72 [ blue cover] is woven acrylic.
> I don't know if that's "fiber reinforced". [ web searching
> for fiber reinforced tarp, shows a lot of "polyethylene" "water proof"
> stuff. ]
>
> anyhow the blue woven acrylic. [ sunbrella. ] is not water proof
> however the rain came for a day and a half and it was enough to keep
> the puddles out of the '72 this time. [ I still have to get the WCM
> window
> seal. ]
>
> > Any tarp over the car will chafe the paint up though so if you have a
> > new
> > paint job dont cover it.
>
> the '72 doesn't have a nice paint job [ yet. ]  so it's ok.
> and better than puddles in the car.
>
> the '67 however. [ gray tarp,  blue canopy. ] has an OK paint job
> done by the PO. [ the one with zero mechanical sense. so the paint is
> not
> great either, but nice enough. ]
>
> It will get the garage when I clear it out.
> it has a car cover from rocky mountain motorworks.
> I'm not sure what quality or material it is. but it seemed
> more water proof. [ can't look it up on rocky mountain motor works site
> because they are merged now with mid america motor works, and they
> don't seem to list a type 3 cover. ]
>
> it seemed the more water proof, and indeed it was.
> the canopy drooped into the roof rack area on the car, and
> formed a puddle, that leaked through the canopy, and formed a puddle
> in the roof rack area on the car cover. [ filled it up. ]
> there were only a few drips through underneath the car cover
> on the car.  So. It held up in the rain adequately.
>
> Now I'll have to get that screen printing shop in the garage
> sold, and moved out, to at least get one car in covered
> parking.
>
> --fess
>
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