Cant rails stowage strap??

[nomad]

Anyone have pics of how the stowage strap in the boot should attach? I have the end that attaches at the lid brace end but that is all.

Kurt

[GLB]

Kurt, I don't have any of that and am looking forward to seeing the solution. Could you post a picture of what you do have. Is the webbing rubber of just a web strap? All I have ever seen is the drawing in the early workshop/parts manual. Gary

[greg40green]

If you locate a member on here who goes by the name of quart meg miles?
He has the original brackets / fixings in the boot of his S1 .
I bought a pair of cant rails off him at Goodwood several years ago and he showed me how and where the cant rails were stored within his very original S1 .

I need a pair of these fixings also , any body reproducing them ?

[Quart Meg Miles]

The other end of the strap clamps under the HOOD RAIL CATCH bolts on the other side. They're the small pair of bolts on the right over a little bracket which traps the strap. [Edited Meg]

I cut my strap off as I had never stored my cant rails, or anything else, under it and it was in the way..

I tuck the rails where the rolled-up hood is supposed to be above the rear lamps with the vertical elements lying in the spaces behind the wheel arches. But I don't think you can do that if you still have the rain guides attached, which I don't. I have rain gullies stitched in to my hood and the hood behind the side window wraps round and clips to the cant rails by Velcro.

[Quart Meg Miles]

This post is just to notify that the above post has been edited dramatically!

[nomad]

Thank you Meg.
I notice that you have a antenna going through what I wondered was a factory antenna hole. At least that is where I had a hole that I filled.

I wonder if that system worked that well to hold the cant rails anyway. I have the large cup that is supplied with the top rail hooks already fitted and might not bother making up that bracket.

Kurt
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[nomad]

Gary, as I remember the webbing was similiar to a springy reinforced rubber strap that was common on chairs in the 60's. If Meg doesn't beat me to it I'll try to load a pic of what I have but won't be till after Christmas.

Kurt

[Quart Meg Miles]

I agree with Kurt, it was a rubberised strap used on upholstery. I don.t know whether it was supposed to be tight or loose, some original owners might remember, and as I never had an owner's handbook I didn't know what it was for.

The aerial was already fitted when I bought the car. I'm tired of it whistling at high speeds and want to take it off but it's a big sunken pit under the aerial (or is it a raised dome) with cracked paint and glass so needs a wide cover.or proper glassing.

What's the modern equivalent of Cirrus White paint in the UK?