BACKLIGHT

The hardtop kit was offered as an optional extra early in the life of the TR2. There was a considerable improvement in the car build accuracy from TS6824, when new body jigs were introduced on the assembly line, which made fitting the kit less difficult. The factory fitting instructions more than hinted to leave all the fittings loose to allow 'adjustment scope' - until all was sitting on the car satisfactorily, then start fully tightening the bolts. Near the end of the process the onset of a 'squeegee' sound usually meant that the rear window wasn't too happy with the new shape it was being asked to come; partly the price paid for hand built cars, but probably more often the result of bodywork re-arrangement. As the windows were made of Perspex, this was really catastrophic, but may explain some strange scratch marks on windows of otherwise good second-hand units. Hardtops were constructed in both fiberglass and steel, to identical patterns.