Custom hood / tonneau companies - any recommendations ?

[autofocus]

Hi all,

I own a Lotus 7 replica built by myself from a kit.
The only down side I find at the moment is due to the lack of windscreen (my choice) I find myself unwilling to leave it parked up at events etc. Although a tonneau cover will not give any sort of security that's not really what I am after, but some protection from the weather would be great just in case of the odd shower.

Can anyone recommend a company (ideally in the Midlands) that I could take the car to and they could make me a bespoke tonneau cover ?

This is the car, its a GBS (and not a Caterham or Westfield) and therefore not easy to get something off the shelf.





and this is the sort of thing I am looking for :-



Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Tim

[alfaspecial]

Many, many years (1989) ago this chap https://www.coachtrimming.co.uk/ made a bespoke tonneau cover for my 'special' (a one-off).


He used 'German-hooding' - Mohair - and it's still going strong

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alfaspecial said:

Many, many years (1989) ago this chap https://www.coachtrimming.co.uk/ made a bespoke tonneau cover for my 'special' (a one-off).


He used 'German-hooding' - Mohair - and it's still going strong

Thanks, I will take a look.
Think it will be too far and don't imagine its something that can be done virtually (in terms of measuring up)

Regards

Tim

[mark beavan]

I've used this guy to make tonneau covers and hoods previously.

https://www.daveweaverupholstery.co.uk/

He is based in Hereford

[mph]

This guy is absolutely brilliant, made me a one-off for my own car. He gets rave reviews on the Morgan forums which is where I first heard of him.

The covers are lightweight, storm proof and pack up to nothing. Not a traditional tonneau but much more practical and fitted in about 30 seconds ! Since I bought mine the mohair tonneau hasn't been used.

He made mine without seeing the car and the car is unique.

http://www.morganhoods.com/id67.html

[Glassman]

http://www.hoodsandtrims.co.uk/

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mph said:

This guy is absolutely brilliant, made me a one-off for my own car. He gets rave reviews on the Morgan forums which is where I first heard of him.

The covers are lightweight, storm proof and pack up to nothing. Not a traditional tonneau but much more practical and fitted in about 30 seconds ! Since I bought mine the mohair tonneau hasn't been used.

He made mine without seeing the car and the car is unique.

http://www.morganhoods.com/id67.html

Hi there,

Many thanks, this looks great.
I like the one he did for the Morgan Speedster that's on his site. Something like that could perhaps work.

I have dropped them a line.

Regards

Tim

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mph said:

This guy is absolutely brilliant, made me a one-off for my own car. He gets rave reviews on the Morgan forums which is where I first heard of him.

The covers are lightweight, storm proof and pack up to nothing. Not a traditional tonneau but much more practical and fitted in about 30 seconds ! Since I bought mine the mohair tonneau hasn't been used.

He made mine without seeing the car and the car is unique.

http://www.morganhoods.com/id67.html

Hi,

Hope you are well.

Just wanted to say a huge thanks for the referral to John at Morgan Hoods. He has been superb from my first enquiry up to the cover arriving today.

I am over the moon with it, its exactly what I wanted and will give me loads more occasions to use the car.









Regards

Tim