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What is the best material for a hood?

Sunbrella treated with a waterproofer?

Cloth backed vinyl?

Other?
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What were the original Australian Mini Moke hoods made of?
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Why don't you just put one word in each post Doug.......that'd help get your count up :roll:
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Nigel(no top)Sykes wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 17:40 Why don't you just put one word in each post Doug.......that'd help get your count up :roll:
Do you know what the original Australian Mini Moke hoods were made from?
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Yep...... I googled it !
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Nigel(no top)Sykes wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 19:52 Yep...... I googled it !
Your Google abilities are obviously far far superior to mine.

I doff my cap.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could be so kind to advise what it was and/or post a link to that site and thus share the information with the rest of us. :D
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Most standard Mokes had black vinyl roofs. I expect the black vinyl was supplied by Nylex. They were a major Australian manufacturer of vinyl sheet materials etc, and they supplied the patterened vinyl that was used on Californians.

Nylex are no longer with us, but any reasonable quality black vinyl hooding material would probably do. The material used to make mine is normally used for covering ute and pick-up trays. There are a bunch of similar materials sold for marine upholstery or convertible hoods.

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Thanks Tim.

I think that I would prefer to get white or a little off-white. :)
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Whatever floats your boat! I expect that if you started out with white, it would be off-white pretty soon.

Have a look at what options there are for marine upholstery and canopies, pretty much any of those materials would be fine.

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Thanks.
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