beck side windows

how do the side windows of a Beck Speedster work? Do they zip or snap?
how do you open the door with them attatched? any info on the windows and top in general would be helpful. Thank you

Wolfgang,

Do you happen to know where to get the furrels from? I am finishing off the top caps of my car and cannot find anything that will fit the post of the brackets that mount to the perspex.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Jim.

I have a VS but my side curtains also have a strip of material (same matl as the rest) that snaps to the door to keep the window in place
besides the 2 pegs...seems important....

The furrels appear to be (my guess) commercial type brass electrical ground crips and tend to be a hair oversized, the side curtains have a bit of side to side "wobble" movement
You can check Home Depot, Lowes etc and find something that will work or pick up a piece of larger steel fuel line and roll-taper the end.

I wish I had a good close-up of the furrels, but mine look like the end of a Big diameter brake line with a flare in it so it has a collar to fit against the door trim bar. I would suggest steel, instead of the aluminium I have, as they tend to score slightly on the inside and then make it hard to get the pins in and out.

My pins are pieces of stainless steel rod, bent to the angle I wanted and then threaded on the end through the side window (see below) They work well (I stole the idea from Ola Miltrop on here - Thanks Ola!)

gn

All the Speedsters I've seen use a couple of "pins" to mount the side curtains to the upper door trim. They just slip into furrels. (Check out the CMC build manuals online here). There are no snaps or zippers. They are not by any means weather tight. Remember I had friend in college with a TR3 and on trips home from southern VA to NJ we would duct tape the side curtain shut once he was in for his winter trips home. He claimed he got more heat from the transmission than the engine and one time when it was raining outside --- it was snow inside!