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I will watch for a hopefully positive announcement! 
Graham (G4FUJ)
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Yes, but I would like answers to these questions:
1) With the 'Easy-Up' hood, how difficult is it to fit the tonneau cover?
2) How easy is it to remove and refit the 'Easy-Up' hood? I am always looking to highlight the advantages of the 4-seater (sad, I know), but locating the tonneau cover under the locating pins isn't difficult as you are close to them from the rear of the car and can lift the rear hood frame relatively easily. I am fairly confident that is the ONLY advantage of the 4-seater hood though !
Richard
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Bear in mind Paul, that a tonneau cover from another 4 seater may not fit 'properly' because the body fixings will be in slightly different places. Also if a car is not specced new with a tonneau cover some, (maybe all) don't get fitted with the dash top fasteners which means that the screen frame has to be taken off to fit the fasteners to the car.
DaveW
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To be honest I think the old fashioned hood is faster to put up. Not if its canvas and has shrunk a little after reproofing it blinking isn't!!!  And I can think of at lest two TM members who will agree...  Oh how we laughed at your old hood Graham.  Jerome K Jerom could have written a book on it!
JohnV6
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"the screen frame has to be taken off to fit the fasteners to the car."
or can a right angled drill attachment be used?
Paul
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Harsh but true, nice one.
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When I began reading this thread, I wondered how it could fill 8 pages?
It turns out that its 'grammatical content' is as futile as that of the MSCC Senior who took the trouble to write to us some years ago to say that 'the apostrophe' in our 'All Morgans' Day' advert should be after the 's'. This sounds like sour grapes to me. Is it not possible the MSCC Senior's advice was offered with the best of intentions? As to the grammatical content of the thread, it's usefulness is a matter of opinion. Personally, I found the drift more interesting and informative than the topic. Maybe you knew what a tonneau is or perhaps you just have an aversion to being corrected, which would explain your reaction to your greengrocer's apostrophe? To my shame I didn't, so I'm grateful to Hamwich for his contribution. Maybe the subtlety of the wit demonstrated by Richard is lost on you? Can I be really pedantic and point out that the thing you lot are all talking about is the tonneau cover? The tonneau is the thing you sit in, aka cockpit. Strictly speaking, we should only be referring to tonneaus and tonneau covers when talking about 4-seaters, as really the tonneau is the bit the passengers sit in.
Well done ! Top notch pendantry. However........if we're being pedantic, may I point out that the plural of tonneau is tonneaux ?  You guys really are scraping the bottom of the barrel....  As always, I found Giles' contribution amusing too. ( I would welcome a pedantic intervention here to advise whether or not an 's' is required ) If you change your settings, the thread will only fill two pages. Maybe then you'll be more forgiving.
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I feel duty bound to point out this post from May 2012: http://www.talkmorgan.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/91807/Re_Tonneau_design which passed without comment at the time!  ~iw
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.... explain your reaction to your greengrocer's apostrophe?
As quite a few of them do it, that should be greengrocers' apostrophe.
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