Quote Originally Posted by John Palmer View Post
Looking at your very smooth roof makes me remember my Thames that I had in 1966-67. Man that was a very long time ago.

Any way, I made some "aluminum bows" for the roof and then made an aluminum panel to fill the roof insert hole. Well you guessed it I used about "a million" 1/8" pop rivets to attach it to the body. So, who ever has that very straight, rust free body now, you can cuss at me for drilling all of those little holes around the roof, LOL. Yes, even the aluminum rear doors were nice (well at least they were over fourty years ago).

Nice job on the body work.
Wish we had started with something as nice as what you described ......... here's what we started with




had to cut it out and start all over



We too built "crossbows" to support the roof, but ours were fabricated from steel




Roof was fabricated out of sheet steel and welded into place



Our quarters below the beltline were just a pocked mess



so we had to fabricate new quarters, wheel tubs, and fender flairs




glad all that work is finished