[Absolut Speed]

Went autocrossing today as I often do. Some kid's Dad rolls over my t-top in the paddock area (the t-tops were flanked by my red tool box and a red and white cooler and a red helmet bag) He says sorry, gives me a phone # and leaves me with the mess. After he left I found the glass ripped the embroidery in the Firehawk floor mat it was resting on. My wife, who was feeling more reasoned, called him tonight. He won't order a t-top for me unless his insurance company says it was his fault. He said, "How was I supposed to see it?" Dunno, dark top top flanked by three red items on light colored concrete, seems difficult, I know. When my wife called back a 2nd time 15 minutes later (at 9:45pm) to mention the floor mat, he didn't answer the phone.

So now, I may have to order my own and Lord knows, could well end up in small claims court. The bad part is the 10th annual Firehawk Rally is this weekend in Ohio and I have no T-top.

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I'm ticked, so you'll see this on a few boards.

[Cal]

I had one fly off on the interstate last year (which did $1800 in damage to the car it landed on).

I had one fly off also!!! I was going 75 mph and it scared the crap out of me! I thought it might hit another car in the windshield and kill somebody. I was very lucky because it didn't hit another car, in fact the T-top was hardly damaged, just a few scratches! After watching it in the miror tumble down the freeway I thought it would be trashed, but it wasn't. This was on the way home from an autox, and I had been distracted by someone talking to me while putting them back in and forgot to latch it. After this experiance I felt like the most lucky dumb-a$$ in the world.

As for T-tops being ran over, I know it has happened in my club also. One of our sites has some islands with small trees on them, and that's where I put my tops, standing on edge leaning against the tree. I've wondered before if they could be stolen though, with as much as they cost.