Hardtop storage

[spgribben007]

kajita,

I too have a hard top and it's laying on the garage floor being in the way. Do you have pictures describing what your neighbor did with the pipes for it hold the top? I've been trying to figure out a way without spending several hundred for a push cart and a hard top cover.

[Lux]

I read somewhere that the Miata's rolling hardtop storage cart works for the Boxster also. I don't know this for a fact but some of you might want to check into it as it is much cheaper than Porsche's version.

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[kajita]

my camera broke so i cant take any pics but i will try to explain what he did.

1 he used a (about 3/4 in diameter) aluminum pipe or a post. really light.
2 he cut it into 2 posts, one on the top, longer, shorter one on the bottem.
3 the installed a lower post on the wall using a bracket(4, 2 on each post).
he spaced it out about
inch from the wall so that the lower part of the hardtop can rest on it.
this is where pretty much all of its weight is stressed on.
4 he then installed the 2nd post, on the top, using the same method.
(my neice, who weighs about 60 pounds was hanging on it and it didnt break)
5 important!!! drilled 2 holes on the upper post so that the tightening handle
of the hardtop could be inserted and turned in order to lock it into the post.
remember the hole is not a circle now, he had to make it bit of an oval shape
in order for it to insert and to lock it in.

he did a lot of measuring so i dont know if it is gonna turn out the same.


the reason why he made this? i use to have it on the wall hanging.
got a big hook installled on the wall, and i took a strap, wrapped the
hardtop and just hung it there. never had any problems but it wasnt the
prettiest thing.