mpbarrett Posted July 4, 2022 Report Share Posted July 4, 2022 I have a Honeybourne fibreglass hardtop for my Herald. I want/need to take the hood and frame off the car so decided to fit a sliding sunroof to the hardtop so I can enjoy the summer days. Difficult trying to find one that fits the hardtop as its so small. In the end I brought a cheap glass sliding tilting sunroof from a LandRover DIscovery 2 off EBay. these are very popular for campervan conversions... It is almost a perfect fit for the shame of the herald hardtop. After many measurements (measure twice, cut once...) and templates, tests in hardboard I finally cut a hole in the roof and after a bit of filling the roof fits perfectly. So I now have a tilting sliding sunroof. It has made the roof heavier but has stiffened it up. Need to repaint the roof and seal the top down using Tigerseal as Landrover did. The hardtop is only fixed down with a couple of J bolts that go onto the frame in the hood well. I have made some fixings to hold it at the front but it would be nice to use the original hood clamps to fix tot he windscreen rail. Just need to work out how to mount them onto the roof... Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonMember Posted July 4, 2022 Report Share Posted July 4, 2022 1 minute ago, mpbarrett said: I have a Honeycomb (SP?) fibreglass hardtop Do you mean Honeybourne? Or is it a special light-weight version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Posted July 4, 2022 Report Share Posted July 4, 2022 Just finished a sliding roof for my son’s MGB GT . Just got to cut the roof now 😱This roof will also fit the Herald/Vitesse Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpbarrett Posted July 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2022 9 minutes ago, NonMember said: Do you mean Honeybourne? Or is it a special light-weight version? yes Honeybourne! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpbarrett Posted July 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2022 36 minutes ago, Paul H said: Just finished a sliding roof for my son’s MGB GT . Just got to cut the roof now 😱This roof will also fit the Herald/Vitesse Paul Nice. I did look at them but it will not fit a Herald fibreglass hardtop, its too long. I just could not find a folding roof that would fit. There is a company in the States that makes short folding roof for truck cabs, but very expensive to buy and ship over. Have fun cutting the roof! Are there beams going across the roof? cheers mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Posted July 4, 2022 Report Share Posted July 4, 2022 7 minutes ago, mpbarrett said: Nice. I did look at them but it will not fit a Herald fibreglass hardtop, its too long. I just could not fit a folding roof that would fit. There is a company in the States that makes short folding roof for truck cabs, but very expensive to buy and ship over. Have fun cutting the roof! Are there beams going across the roof? cheers mike Not sure , one way to find out ! Paul 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daverclasper Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 On 04/07/2022 at 16:46, Paul H said: Just finished a sliding roof for my son’s MGB GT . Just got to cut the roof now 😱This roof will also fit the Hera Looks the the one you bought off me Paul?. Hope it worked out well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Posted July 6, 2022 Report Share Posted July 6, 2022 9 hours ago, daverclasper said: Looks the the one you bought off me Paul?. Hope it worked out well Yes it’s the one . Added a black headlining and it’s worked well thanks . Just need to fit Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daverclasper Posted July 6, 2022 Report Share Posted July 6, 2022 Looks the biz. Well done that man. Glad it worked out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted July 6, 2022 Report Share Posted July 6, 2022 have fitted a load of pop ups in my days its drilling the first hole that gets the blood pressure going and if using a jigsaw keeping the swarf away from the base plate and paint Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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