Wind Deflector Part Two

Spent some time last week finishing off the wind deflector on the Stag. Took it up to South East Trimmers near Faversham where the owner matched up a piece of vinyl to the Stags Beige Trim, which is now commonly referred to as Biscuit apparantly.

Only cost £15 - what a bargain! - the next stop was B&Q for some aluminium strip and Evo Stick (new fangled solvent free white stuff!) This was followed by a quick trip to our local 'Grace Brothers' department store for some elastic, eyelets and velcro.

Whilst I was at the trimmers, he had a tonneau already made up so he drew the profile on the back of the material for me - this made it much easier.

Once home, the material was cut, edges glued and one of the ally strips embedded in the front edge, this was then bolted to the other ally strip sandwiching the plastic window. Eyelets were added and elastic attached. I needed to put two small bolts through the rear hood tonneau seal channel to take two of the elastic ties.

First Test Run had to wait until Sunday morning due to the weather - very impressed with the result.

And now for the bad news - I have had to withdraw our entry from CT's HCR due to a clash of dates - my nephews wedding is on the same day and I'd already promised to video it for him - Damn, was looking forward to the HCR!

Adding a wind deflector

I've been meaning to do something to make journeys on cold days a little more comfortable in the Stag and add a wind deflector to it. I did this with the Spitfire some time ago and the difference on that was huge.

Anyway, at the recent Ally Pally show I spied a Stag on the Club Triumph Eastern stand that had such an arrangement, what appealed to me was its simplicity - velcro fixings at the top and gate latch strikers at the bottom.

So late last week, I fashioned a cardboard template and went to a local glazer that also provides acrylic windows for saloon racing cars - he did all the required cutting and shaping leaving me to add the gate latches. Finished it this morning and tested it - great improvement - just awaiting some rubber door seal to edge it with and stop the acylic squeaking. The next step will be to make up a tonneau to go over the rear seats which will be attached to the bottom of the acrylic screen using aluminium strip.

Some samples of material arrived from Woolies today, but I'm not that happy with the match to the existing Beige (code74) trim, so have arranged to go to South East Trimming tommorrow who have some the right colour (I hope)

Total cost so far £45 - a lot cheaper than Bosscreen!