This started with a question on 3/8/2010 from Frank Watson in Australia, "Can someone tell me who made the VP design fiberglass hardtop"?

It is real, but it was not make by VP. Apparently it was made by a company in Australia. From some discussion on the Twin Cam egroup about 5 years earlier, there was some conjecture that only 200 of these particular tops were made.

At 02:10 PM 3/21/2010 -0700, Ian Hazeldine in Australia wrote:
"If the hard top was manufactured in Australia then it could have been made by J&S Fibreglass, Parramatta Rd., Ashfield. They are no longer in business. I have one of their hard tops that I use regularly. Legend has it that they obtained an aluminium hard top from the U.K. and used it to form their copy and if you remove the head lining you can see the join marks of the aluminium original. I do not want to remove the lining in mine so cannot confirm this. A Sydney MG club member is said to have the mold and is considering re manufacturing them. J&S. also made the Buchanan body for MG chassis that is on Barney's site".

At 02:19 PM 3/24/2010 -0700, Ian Hazeldine wrote:
"I still have the hardtop and use it regularly. .... I will take the photo then and forward to you.

At 04:43 PM 4/11/2010 -0700, Ian Hazeldine wrote:
"Attached are some photo's of the hardtop you requested".



This advertisement from Sports Car World special volume “Worlds Fastest Sports Cars”, 1961.