Hardtop weight?

Hi all! Just wondering if anyone knows the weight of an early MGF hardtop?
I need it to calculate shipping.
Thanks!
Rich

Rich in Vancouver wrote: Hi all! Just wondering if anyone knows the weight of an early MGF hardtop?
I need it to calculate shipping.
Thanks!
Rich

:shrug: No Idea, but i will try to find out for you. i have a contact at BMH (British Motor Heritage) :yesnod:

Hi Rich,

I don't have the weight to hand but would estimate around 20kg.

I think your shipping cost will be dictated by the volume of the box protecting the hardtop and not the weight.

The Box will need to be about 1.4 x 1.4 x 0.5m this gives you a volume of 0.98m³

So I would get shipping cost for a 1m³ (include the weight of the wooden box say 20 ~ 25 kg) 45kg weight and you won't be too far wrong.

Hope that helps :thumbsup:

Rich in Vancouver wrote: Hi all! Just wondering if anyone knows the weight of an early MGF hardtop?
I need it to calculate shipping.
Thanks!
Rich

It is 18Kg ~ someone on .org deducted the kerb weight, with and without HT and got 18Kg ~ someone else weighted one and said "its about 20Kg"

Paul is quite right, you have got to think about the box too. :thumbsup:

Just out of interest Rich did you get a quote on shipping the hardtop?

In the end I decided against bringing in a hardtop from the UK. I was resigned to being a soft top only guy when a friend told me he was buying an MGF with hardtop from Japan, didn't need the hardtop and would sell it to me for a good price. This would have been simple if he was shipping his car through Vancouver, but he had it shipped to Halifax on the East Coast, which is close to Newfoundland where he lives. At this point he is packing the top and getting it ready to ship the 3000 miles to me.
This will be one well travelled top, England to Japan, back through the Panama Canal to Newfoundland then back across North America to the West Coast. I'm hoping to have it in time to store it away for the summer! :pinch:
Back to the original question....Rimmers offered to airfreight a new hardtop to me for 500.GBP which is pretty reasonable considering it's bulk. I'm not sure what the freight from Newfoundland will be but I will post on the T-Bar when I get it.

Regardless this transaction is proving to be a lot easier than my efforts to buy what was the only MGF hardtop in North America from a fellow in Minnesota last year. After four months of stalling he still hadn't finished packing it so I called off the sale. :rant:

Rich in Vancouver wrote: I'm hoping to have it in time to store it away for the summer! :pinch:

Newfoundland's summer doesn't start until July so you should be fine!!!! :bust: