Thread: Vinyl top on Model A----How

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I didn't do a whole vinyl top, but replaced the original "tarpaper" roof with the padded vinyl top used on Cadillacs. We replaced the wood bows in the top, then we laid a fairly fine chicken wire over the bows and laid a bunch of fiberglass mat over that. The installer simply glued and streched the vinyl over the top and secured it to the wood per the original.

It looks white in the photo, but it's not. It's kind of a medium gray to match the interior.

Bob,

Those are Gibbon fenders, by the way - made back when the old man was running the business. They were flawless, and fit the original body perfectly. Fast forward twenty years . . . and . . . well, you know.