Has anyone put a perminant roof and doors on a locost? if so could we talk a bit because i'm planing on it but need a helping hand in some bits.
i think adding a fixed roof and doors goes completely against what a lotus7 should be, an open sports car. if you put a roof to your locost, i think you will take away the charm and pleasure of riding like you do in a car like this
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Originally posted by MaLocost
Has anyone put a perminant roof and doors on a locost? if so could we talk a bit because i'm planing on it but need a helping hand in some bits.
I'm sure I saw somewhere just recently that either Caterham or Westfield had developed a removable hardtop. Didn't look good in the picture, though, hence the reason I can't remember which one it was.
Some guy in the Netherlands build a hardtop removable roof for his seven. It looks pretty good. I would like to do the same thing, and have been
trying to figure out a way to do it.
Best i could figure is to have a fiberglass removable roof, with some support beams on the inside to keep it rigid. Basically just a bubble over the
cockpit and boot. Then for the doors I was thinking about just making (again out of fiberglass) some removable doors that just bolt on to the
windscreen.
doonkevort also has a pretty decent looking hard top.
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[Edited on 16/11/05 by derf]
and another concept:
Pretty cool looking. Use your seven all year avoiding those irritating headcolds that come from being covered in puddle water. Swish.
Very kool looking car has some nice touches
Been done ages ago 
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big daddy now your talking a master of fibre glass
Couple of guys have done it witha Robin Hood with some nice results:
Hardtop
And just to make it easy to see the great job they did...
Dutton were also doing it years ago
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here's how to make a locost homemade plastic bubble . . .
http://www.portaprompt.co.uk/greenpower/index_page0007.htm
http://www.portaprompt.co.uk/greenpower/index_page0008.htm
Actually looks do-able, though it might take a few goes to get right.
Bob C
Lukefab has some pictures of a hardtop in his photo archive. I assume it's on his car.
David
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Originally posted by derf
Defeats the object. Most of us , I'm assuming here, have perfectly good everyday cars with roofs, why build another one?
Why not build something like the Donkeyfart and make it your everyday car?