Any Photos? Brackets for factory steel 850 Spider hard top

[Matt Zerega]

Anyone have photos of the factory brackets that attach the front of the Fiat factory hard-top to the windshield on the 850 Spider?

Why do I ask? I've got a nicely restored factory steel top, and whomever restored it did a nice job on the new headliner too...with exception of the fact that they obscured the screw holes that hold the brackets shown in the factory glovebox manual. And I can't feel 'em underneath the new headliner!

Unfortunately, the image included in glovebox manual (below) - providing instructions for mounting/unmounting the hard top - obscures the part I need to see behind the sun visor, and an hour of www searching has yielded nothing.....so....... my hope is that one of you passionate, long time Fiat enthusiasts can take a few detailed photos of the factory hard top brackets that fasten the top the windshield frame.

Anyone have a pair of these mysterious brackets that they're willing to photograph?

 

[Loren Field]

Hi - there was a thread on this back on Nov 23, 2018 that might answer your questions.... Best, Loren

 

[Jeff Stich]

Here you go:



Note that most USA cars with the factory steel hardtop don't have these big sunvisors attached to the hardtop brackets. They just have the brackets with a black rubber/plastic plug in the hole for each sunvisor post, & the "normal" smaller black sunvisors mounted on the upper windshield frame like all other 850 Spiders. The assemblies shown in my photos above were from a Euro model (an 850 CL).

There's also this post here on Xweb.

 

[Matt Zerega]

Thank Loren. You're awesome, Jeff. This is huge help..and you just solved a tiny part of the mystery for me. I can feel a large (~12mm), round hole through the new headliner i.e., way too big for screws. I've been wondering what the heck that could be -- based on your photos, it appears to be accommodation for the visor post. Thanks very much, Gents. I'll post some photos when I have something genuinely interesting to look at.....