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And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« on: August 20, 2007, 07:28:40 pm »
How to lower the top on your new lambo.



And now raise it back up.



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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2007, 07:29:52 pm »
A problem I will never know. :'(

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2007, 07:31:32 pm »
Personally, I could live with it.
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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2007, 07:32:27 pm »
I think, if you can afford that, you can afford an assistant who will raise and lower that for you  :rofl:

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2007, 07:33:39 pm »
I remember the top gear ep where Hamster tried the top on his Lambo tester and had to get the whole village involved.
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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2007, 07:35:13 pm »
I think, if you can afford that, you can afford an assistant who will raise and lower that for you  :rofl:

My personal choice would be a cadre of supermodels. :)

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2007, 07:40:27 pm »
I think, if you can afford that, you can afford an assistant who will raise and lower that for you  :rofl:

My personal choice would be a cadre of supermodels. :)

Haha, okay, make that beautiful, sexy, and aiming to please female assistants!

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2007, 07:46:46 pm »
I think, if you can afford that, you can afford an assistant who will raise and lower that for you  :rofl:

My personal choice would be a cadre of supermodels. :)

Haha, okay, make that beautiful, sexy, and aiming to please female assistants!

Too bad ovr stole them all for his 7 Series. :(

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2007, 07:49:34 pm »
I think, if you can afford that, you can afford an assistant who will raise and lower that for you  :rofl:

My personal choice would be a cadre of supermodels. :)

Haha, okay, make that beautiful, sexy, and aiming to please female assistants!

Too bad ovr stole them all for his 7 Series. :(

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2007, 07:51:16 pm »
They charge you more for this complex system.  How else to make this unique?

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2007, 07:57:49 pm »
It can't be that hard.  It has velcro.  :)


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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2007, 08:09:41 pm »
And to think, we used to complain about having to "construct" the MGA top.  :o :rofl2: :rofl:
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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2007, 08:13:17 pm »
I like the 323 top, press the button top goes up, press the button top goes down ;D

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2007, 08:55:52 pm »
I think, if you can afford that, you can afford an assistant who will raise and lower that for you  :rofl:

My personal choice would be a cadre of supermodels. :)

Haha, okay, make that beautiful, sexy, and aiming to please female assistants!

Too bad ovr stole them all for his 7 Series. :(

Man, I hope you are right about the cadre of supermodels in the back of that 745. I'll have to speak to my buddy about that, as it has been mentioned on here before, and can't be all that bad of an idea. And Barrie can't have any of them, because they are all copies of US GMsupermodels.  ;D ;D :rofl2:
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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2007, 09:08:48 pm »
I think, if you can afford that, you can afford an assistant who will raise and lower that for you  :rofl:

My personal choice would be a cadre of supermodels. :)

Haha, okay, make that beautiful, sexy, and aiming to please female assistants!

Too bad ovr stole them all for his 7 Series. :(

Man, I hope you are right about the cadre of supermodels in the back of that 745. I'll have to speak to my buddy about that, as it has been mentioned on here before, and can't be all that bad of an idea. And Barrie can't have any of them, because they are all copies of US GMsupermodels.  ;D ;D :rofl2:

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2007, 12:17:55 am »
I like the 323 top, press the button top goes up, press the button top goes down ;D

I'll take the Lambo and the no button top....I'll just park it when it's cloudy and take the coupe out. 

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2007, 01:11:54 am »
Its Ok Ovr as I don't think my wife would let keep any of them anyways. Just more mouths to feed and cloth as well aye.  :) ;D :rofl: :rofl2: :rofl:

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2007, 01:17:23 am »
Its Ok Ovr as I don't think my wife would let keep any of them anyways. Just more mouths to feed and cloth as well aye.  :) ;D :rofl: :rofl2: :rofl:

Well damn...another good idea shot to hell... ;D ;D :rofl:

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2007, 02:16:56 pm »
I like the 323 top, press the button top goes up, press the button top goes down ;D

Pfff... who has time for all that nonsense, Airb?  I undo a single latch and flip the top over my shoulder.  It falls back, clicks itself into place and makes its own tonneau cover.  Total elapsed time:  3 seconds or less.

Click, flip, sunshine.

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Wing, that Lambo top still has two benefits over the top on the Solstice:

1)  It doesn't take ALL of the cargo capacity
2)  It isn't attached to a Solstice

Plus... I'm still not convinced it would actually take any longer than that contrived mess on the Solstice.  :)

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Re: And we thought the soltice had a bad softtop!
« Reply #19 on: August 21, 2007, 02:21:16 pm »
I like the 323 top, press the button top goes up, press the button top goes down ;D

Pfff... who has time for all that nonsense, Airb?  I undo a single latch and flip the top over my shoulder.  It falls back, clicks itself into place and makes its own tonneau cover.  Total elapsed time:  3 seconds or less.

Click, flip, sunshine.

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Wing, that Lambo top still has two benefits over the top on the Solstice:

1)  It doesn't take ALL of the cargo capacity
2)  It isn't attached to a Solstice

Plus... I'm still not convinced it would actually take any longer than that contrived mess on the Solstice.  :)
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