Desert Rat
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Need some help identifying this hardtop.
The backstory is that many years ago while driving home from work a stranger stopped my dad and asked him if he wanted to buy a BE hardtop. He followed the guy to his house and bought the hardtop off the BE in the guy's garage. The seals were well rotted out but did have the original rear glass still installed. Money was exchanged, they put it on dad's car and he drove home. Dad couldn't find seals for it so it's been siting in the garage all these years. Fast forward to Sunday and I replaced all of the seals and the rear window gasket, put it on Agnes and from pictures I've seen it fits correctly accept with the side curtains installed. The curtains hit the top and the doors won't close. The windscreen clamps line up and the B-pillar brackets are where they should be and the side curtains are the original that came with the car when my dad bought it in the 60s, so I'm confident they are correct.
Any way to identify what this would fit? It looks like every hardtop I see on Bugeyes on the interwebs. Or any guesses what this is or what my problem could be?
The backstory is that many years ago while driving home from work a stranger stopped my dad and asked him if he wanted to buy a BE hardtop. He followed the guy to his house and bought the hardtop off the BE in the guy's garage. The seals were well rotted out but did have the original rear glass still installed. Money was exchanged, they put it on dad's car and he drove home. Dad couldn't find seals for it so it's been siting in the garage all these years. Fast forward to Sunday and I replaced all of the seals and the rear window gasket, put it on Agnes and from pictures I've seen it fits correctly accept with the side curtains installed. The curtains hit the top and the doors won't close. The windscreen clamps line up and the B-pillar brackets are where they should be and the side curtains are the original that came with the car when my dad bought it in the 60s, so I'm confident they are correct.
Any way to identify what this would fit? It looks like every hardtop I see on Bugeyes on the interwebs. Or any guesses what this is or what my problem could be?