Back in May a tornado hit Jefferson City and did a lot of damage, including the storage unit where I housed the top to my Land Rover. I replaced a couple of broken windows but had to order a new top to the driver side door.

A local body shop did a fine job of matching the paint but when when I first looked at the old and new top side-by-side, it looked like the angles (see curved arrow) were different. Then I noticed the right side (see red line) of the old window wasn’t square.

Makes sense now because the old top got hammered hard enough to bend the steel (straight arrow). So we’re good to go. My buddy George has taken a hard line on getting the top of the Rover a make-over, too, so that’s next. Hoping I can make it though September — maybe a bit longer — with the soft top.