Hardtop Advice for Spider

[Fred Sacks <fredsacks@domain.elided>]

At 1:03 PM -0500 1/29/00, Ken Ross wrote:
>Is it worth the expense and trouble to purchase a hardtop for a series 3
>Spider.  I live in the northeast and we do experience all four seasons.
>What should I expect to pay for a hardtop?  TIA.

Ken--

I'm not sure where you live, but if you live where it's cold, the 
answer is YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!.  If you followed my question about rear 
window replacement last week that will give you a hint as to why.  I 
have not taken the time to go to a shop yet to see if the rear window 
alone can be replaced, but the chances are that I will wind up 
replacing what was a pretty good top.

Here's the short of it:

Up until this year, the car was only an 8 month car, and never driven 
in snow...or very little rain for that matter, so there was no need 
for a hard top.    When my Milano 3.0 was totaled, I started driving 
the spyder every day.  Since the average temperature in the Phila. 
area for the last 4 years was about 45 degrees with no snow, I 
figured "what the heck".  Then this year hit.  Anyway, my car was in 
my garage, which is not heated.  The outside temperature was about 5 
degrees.  I went to put my breifcase on the back shelf, barely 
touched the window, and the window cracked in 3 places.  So now a car 
that was beautiful looks like it is put together with packing tape. 
Oh well...

Good Luck,
Fred Sacks

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