New soft top hood

The soft top hood that I got when I bought the Midas was in very poor condition and the metal frame that connects to the windscreen was rusty. I took the old hood to Auto Interiors near Newark just off the A1. They removed the pop riveted on metal frame that I then had sandblasted and powder coated. Russell made me a new hood using the old one as a pattern out of blue double duck with beige interior and then fitted it to the car for me. His price was cheaper than the other quotes that I received but he did an excellent job that I am very happy with. We found a couple of issues with the hood frame that I had to fix. The first was one of the clamps for one of the hinges was loose because the bolt had seized and its head had been sheared off so it was not clamping the tube to the frame at all and it was not in the correct place. I drilled the centre of the bolt out and tried an ezy-out to remove it without success so I drilled it out just inside the thread and picked the remainder of the old bolt out with a dental pick. I then tapped the M6 thread to clean it up and fitted a new bolt measured the frame up and positioned the hinge in the correct place and clamped it up. We also found that the webbing between the rear and centre tubes had shrunk as it was cotton based and so the rear tube did not sit on the seam that it should. I therefore replaced the webbing straps with new nylon ones some 20mm longer for the rear bar. I now have a nice taught new waterproof hood on my Midas.