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Time to start working on the A coupe again, and one of the things I want to tackle is the roof. I've half-assed done the roof a few times with vinyl in the past, as I knew they weren't going to be permanent. Plus I've always kinda wanted to put in a steel roof. Now that I have my little wire feed welder and some practice on some quarter panels on another project, and foolishly think I might try this, time to do the research. First off, when you weld in a steel roof, what happens with the wood ?? Does it stay there? All of it ? Some of it ? If you remove the wood, how do you attach the upholstery/headliner ?
I've seen several other posts about donors. Most seem to be from several years ago, and the suggestions were for Pintos, Vegas, Mavericks, or similar older cars that just aren't in junkyards anymore. At least not around here. What are people using "currently" ? The standard response is usually to find something that "matches the contour/curves" of the coupe; but how exactly is that accomplished? Yeah, it curves front to back, and side to side; but they all do that. Other than running back and forth to the junkyard and cutting up different roofs; the only idea I've come up with is to take one of the roof bows with me, and at least I can check the side to side curvature somewhat. I've seen a couple Youtube videos of people doing these, but they don't really explain it that well. Ideas ? Please ? (and thank you...)
I've seen several other posts about donors. Most seem to be from several years ago, and the suggestions were for Pintos, Vegas, Mavericks, or similar older cars that just aren't in junkyards anymore. At least not around here. What are people using "currently" ? The standard response is usually to find something that "matches the contour/curves" of the coupe; but how exactly is that accomplished? Yeah, it curves front to back, and side to side; but they all do that. Other than running back and forth to the junkyard and cutting up different roofs; the only idea I've come up with is to take one of the roof bows with me, and at least I can check the side to side curvature somewhat. I've seen a couple Youtube videos of people doing these, but they don't really explain it that well. Ideas ? Please ? (and thank you...)