Does anyone sell a hardtop/softop rack?

[PittsburghRT]

I just bought / picked up my RT/10 on Friday and received a carbon fiber hardtop and a soft top with the car. I bought the car from a owner on the VCA site. Do any companies make a rack to hang both of these on a garage wall? I could hang them with safety wire, but a rack would be more convenient.

 

[RAYSIR]

Look up California Car Cover on google search they have one that has pulleys from the ceiling and wall rack. I cover my hardtop with a blanket bag I made then set it on 2 bike rack screw in hangers on the wall with a bungie cord across a corner.

 

[Randy]

Its not too hard to make one:

 

[ViperJoe]

Man looks like Rube Goldberg was working overtime at your place!

On the cheap side I used some L brackets that I bought at Home depot with some foam pipe insulation around them for protection. Bolted them to the side wall of the carage.

Also used a set for the soft top and tonneau cover

 

[motor602]

randy, thats beautiful...
(drool)

 

[Newport Viper]

So you set that roof down on the car, how do you slide the metal bracket out without damage to the car?

 

[V10SpeedLuvr]

I made my own shelf for the hardtop, but give Jon B. a shout to see what he has. www.partsrack.com

 

[Randy]

Talk about extremes in responses - from skepticism/derision with the Rube Goldberg comment, to the drool.

So you set that roof down on the car, how do you slide the metal bracket out without damage to the car?

Pretty easily - out the drivers window. Its just two pieces of square aluminum tubing joined with two flat straps in an "X". You actually have to be fairly clumsy to damage the car with it; as opposed to taking the hard top off by yourself, which I used to do a lot.

The top has been up and down on my "Rube Goldberg" contraption probably a hundred times without any damage to the car, so it must not be an issue.

For those that haven't yet asked: its the 440/880 lb hoist (not "winch") from Harbor Freight for $70, plus another probably $100-$150 in parts; aluminum stock, plastic-coated wire cable, extension cable for the hoist control, etc.

 

[Randy]

Also used a set for the soft top and tonneau cover

As I normally don't have any top on the car, and I got caught at work a one time too many with my Gen I with unexpected Northern California rain - it simply doesn't rain in Nor Cal in the summer, so, when it does (despite my watching the weather religiously, they still get it wrong), I got to drive home in the rain w/o the top, I always keep the soft top in the trunk. When I lower the hard top to the car, I pull the soft top out and lean it up against the corner of the garage (still rolled up), so I've never bothered with any type of storage system for the soft top.