Fastening a fabric cover to a vehicle surface

A vehicle comprising;

• a vehicle body having at least one opening therein to be covered;
• a plurality of vehicle surfaces arranged around said at least one opening;
• a fabric cover for engaging over the opening and having edge portions for engaging respective ones of the vehicle surfaces;
• and a plurality of fastening elements for fastening the edge portions to the respective vehicle surfaces;
• each fastening element comprising:
• a female cap member having portions thereof attaching the female cap member to a respective edge portion of the fabric cover and having a female receptacle;
• and a male projecting member separate from the fabric cover comprising a male portion and a thin flexible mounting pad with a layer of adhesive on an exposed surface thereof;
• the male portion having a rigid flat disk with a hole therein and a peripheral rim of the male portion standing upwardly from the rigid flat disk and engageable into the female receptacle of the cap member as a readily releasable and reengageable snap fastener;
• the layer of adhesive having one surface adhesively fastened to the exposed surface of the flexible mounting pad and an opposed surface fastened to the respective vehicle surface;
• the thin flexible pad having a stud member projecting therefrom in a direction opposite to said exposed surface and projecting into said hole in the rigid flat disk so as to fasten the rigid flat disk to the flexible attachment member;
• the thin flexible pad being flexible in a direction such that edges thereof are flexible toward and away from the rigid flat disk and such that at least one of the fastening elements has the thin flexible pad thereof flexed away from the rigid flat disk thereof and is attached by said adhesive layer thereof to a surface portion of the vehicle which is arcuate.