Thread: Bop Top ordered...any advice?

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There was a Bop Top fitted roadster at the 1932 Ford Petersen Show that had a nice set of fold-up plexiglass side windows. They were attached to the top's side rails with some Adel clips and folded in and pivoted up for storage. Not sure who's car it was or who made them but they looked like they would do the trick on a long road trip.

Sid Chaver's makes a side curtain kit now for the Bop Top... It velcro's along the top and attaches with stainless steel brackets up front that go over the windshield posts and are held on with the windshield wingnuts. They're a cool $1000 though... The way I see it, a top with no side curtains is still far better than no top at all. I know its only ever gonna rain when my top is stored at home anyhow.

Windwings help quite a bit.
These are 1/4" Lexan - trade name for Polycabonate - in Vintique re-pro mounts.

As do quarter windows.
The ones shown are 1/8" Lexan and were prototypes.
The 1/8" Lexan vibrates and buzzes due to airflow.
Use 3/16" and no problems.

Mounts with two slightly longer than normal stainless sheet metal panhead screws with flat washers into the oak bow and an 8-32 stainless allen head with flat washer and nylock through the oblong hole near the bottom of the stainless top iron piece.

Next project for the 32 - now that winters almost over - a pair of swing down side windows.

I don't expect to seal the cockpit off all that well, but one of the secrets to running a roadster in cold weather - 16 degrees F being my personal best - is keeping the big drafts out and using a heater, which I have.