I am hoping it is better to add onto this thread rather than start a new one. I have a boot coverage problem.

Several years back, I had a new convertible top installed on my 1968. As the manual top is put down, the folded edge of the top completely overlaps the top of the back seat. It seems fully down in the well and the sides latch down as one would expect.

I never thought anything about it or had an issue with it – until now.

As in some of the earlier discussion on this thread, someone had once added snaps to the chrome strips (pinch weld molding) on my car. I wanted those off to return to the original look and use.

After replacing the molding, I purchased a new boot cover from Classic. It seems well-made and has a good color match to the seat covers I bought from them last year.

However, there is a problem. The boot fits snugly at the rear with the clips and the sides with clips and snaps, but at the front of the boot – along the top of the back seat – there is not enough boot material to wrap under the front edge of the folded-down top. As a result, I could not drive the car with the boot installed as the air would flow right underneath it.

All indications are that the top is properly down all the way and there does not seem another way to fold the top down to try to limit the amount of top material that is forward. Still, the problem would seem to either be the top material is folded too far forward or the boot was not made with enough material to fully lap the front edge.

Any thoughts or advice, please?

P.S. If anyone is interested in my old pinch weld molding with snaps attached and mounting clips included fairly cheaply, let me know via PM.