Hi folk
Has anyone cut a sheldon high roof top open and extended the height? I’m considering giving my Mk1 a higher high top as at 6’4” it’s a little bit cramped. I’m thinking of cutting the top off and building a rim with fibre glass (the roof looks to be just fibre glass) then reattaching it to the new rim.
Cheers for any thoughts (even if they are “what are you doing you idiot!”)
WT
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Sheldon top remodel
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Sheldon top remodel
by WorkyTicket » Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:41 pm
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Re: Sheldon top remodel
by dumper » Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:04 am
No help but that takes me back had one on my mk3 remember going down to sheldon to get it fitted in 1989
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Re: Sheldon top remodel
by WorkyTicket » Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:09 am
Literally just cutting off the lid and extending it.
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Re: Sheldon top remodel
by Keef » Wed Jun 05, 2019 4:26 pm
dumper wrote:No help but that takes me back had one on my mk3 remember going down to sheldon to get it fitted in 1989
Wasn't red was it? If so I might own it
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Re: Sheldon top remodel
by dumper » Wed Jun 05, 2019 5:33 pm
Keef wrote:dumper wrote:No help but that takes me back had one on my mk3 remember going down to sheldon to get it fitted in 1989
Wasn't red was it? If so I might own it
No it was a white one ex Hartford motors Lincoln parts van used to bring parts to wear I worked I happened to driver Jim I was looking for one to build a campervan didn’t think much more about it till he turned up in his new van and told me you can pickup my old in weeks time after they hod resprayed it for only £1250
2025 MK 8 L3 H3 Motorsport campervan
Past camper vans
1974 mk1 v4 with 2.0 pinto fitted
1986 mk3 2.5 di swb
1990 190 lwb 2.5 di
1998 100 lwb 2.5 di
2006 350 jumbo 135 tdci
2015 MK 8 L4 H3 motorsport campervan
Past camper vans
1974 mk1 v4 with 2.0 pinto fitted
1986 mk3 2.5 di swb
1990 190 lwb 2.5 di
1998 100 lwb 2.5 di
2006 350 jumbo 135 tdci
2015 MK 8 L4 H3 motorsport campervan
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Re: Sheldon top remodel
by WorkyTicket » Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:40 pm
result!dumper wrote:Keef wrote:dumper wrote:No help but that takes me back had one on my mk3 remember going down to sheldon to get it fitted in 1989
Wasn't red was it? If so I might own it
No it was a white one ex Hartford motors Lincoln parts van used to bring parts to wear I worked I happened to driver Jim I was looking for one to build a campervan didn’t think much more about it till he turned up in his new van and told me you can pickup my old in weeks time after they hod resprayed it for only £1250
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Re: Sheldon top remodel
by WorkyTicket » Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:40 pm
So mig welding bodywork is much easier with Argon / CO2 rather than just CO2 it turns out! 
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Re: Sheldon top remodel
by dumper » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:06 pm
It certainly was I still don’t believe it at the time same spec vans were going for over £2000
2025 MK 8 L3 H3 Motorsport campervan
Past camper vans
1974 mk1 v4 with 2.0 pinto fitted
1986 mk3 2.5 di swb
1990 190 lwb 2.5 di
1998 100 lwb 2.5 di
2006 350 jumbo 135 tdci
2015 MK 8 L4 H3 motorsport campervan
Past camper vans
1974 mk1 v4 with 2.0 pinto fitted
1986 mk3 2.5 di swb
1990 190 lwb 2.5 di
1998 100 lwb 2.5 di
2006 350 jumbo 135 tdci
2015 MK 8 L4 H3 motorsport campervan
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