Progressing slowly Boxy!
I sent them an original 109 canvas as well for them to use as a template.
They made one up but unfortunately there were a few issues.
So they have agreed to remake it.
The major problem was that the canopy was too short for the vehicle by about 100 mm.
And we weren’t really happy with their use of plastic Perentie style buckles for the webbing straps. They also used tan webbing and binding instead of the correct green colour.
It turns out that the black brass buckles as used on the originals are hard to find these days. ( If anyone has any source of these, let me know!)
However we might be onto a quantity of them which we will hopefully supply to Robco.
They seem keen to get it correct, obviously we really want the canopies to be as close as possible to the originals.
I was very impressed with the quality of the canvas, hopefully they can work with Mick and myself and we can get a fairly authentic canopy, which will be terrific now that Restless Rover has retired.
Obviously not just for our 2 vehicles, it will be great to see them available for everyone who is chasing one.
I’ll keep this updated, we are currently waiting on a possible source of the buckles to get back to us.
Cheers,
Mike.
