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Healey 100 Tonneau Details:

1/27/2019

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I recently made a new tonneau cover for a clients late BN1.
The client was able to send me his original tonneau in the original Sage green Everflex so I could cross reference it with my patterns and re-examine the details...

While I was at it, I pulled out my original Red early BN1 tonneau so I could lay them out together and examine the differences,
Here you can see the late BN1/BN2 style tonneau in Green, compared to the early BN1 tonneau in Red:
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The early BN1 tonneau pattern followed the cars cockpit rail curvature around the front, while the later style had more sqaured off front corners and used turn-snaps in the front corners rather than the Tenax snaps the earlier used...
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These next pics of another early Red tonneau are courtesy of Mike Salter -
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Notice the original "Lightning" zipper used on both styles -
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However on my other early tonneau, we find this different and smaller style of Lightning zipper - perhaps a replacement judging from the stitching!
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Both styles have the same little under flaps for turn-snaps sewn in just behind the doors...
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Slightly different stitching at the base of the zipper...
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Also some updated stitching details around the rear hook bars as the later style improved...
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Here's one of my new early BN1 tonneau's that I made earlier this year - in correct Red Everflex, with a new correct style Lightning zipper:
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And here's the new one I made in the later style for Curt -

Unfortunately the Sage Green Everflex is totally unavailable, and it's just not wise to try and custom dye a piece of weather equipment that's going to be used regularly. So we had to settle on using the available Dark Green Everflex - which still looks great!
Complete with a new correct zipper and his original Lightning pull -
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