Thread: think this roof can be saved?

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Make a cardboard prfile of what you have or what you will have when the old is removed. Take it to the boneyard and choose a roof that best suits. If you do the cutting out or whoever does take plenty and trim when you get it back home.
Remember also to consider the length. Want the ribs to end with hanging over the end of your roof.
I think if you do enough reserch here and on other rod sites you will find some pictures. Maybe someone here can post.

Well I called a local junkyard today from work and they said that a mid 80's to about 1990 you can find a smooth roof with out the ribbing and roof rack they want 250.00 delivered they said they would cut it with about 3-4 inches of the a/b pillers.... does this sound like a good deal?

thanks,
simon

Do you want smooth or ribbed? Sounds to high a price . Offer $125 and work from there.

I want smooth... I will call them tomorrow and see if I can hagle them down 125.00 sounds very doable since they most places around here give anywhere from 100.00 - 200.00 a car... I guess I need try to find out how to do this, for instance do I just cut on the body side of the welds on the existing roof and then I have to figure out how to go about cutting the new one and holding it in place for tacking in ...

Okay I talked the junk yard down to 100.00 for a 88 dodge caravan roof smooth no roof rack... they will cut it 3 inches down the pillers so I have a complete roof.... since the car is complete and I am just replacing the center protion of the roof where at one point in time was no roof do I need to brace the car when I cut the roof off? what is the easiest way to get the new roof on as far as measuring cutting etc? and should I just use tack welds all around the roof spacing and hammer and dolling them till I finally get it welded in ? I was probably going to tack all over the place none side by side in hopes of not warping this roof and getting a roof that looks a hundred times better than the one on there now. any help on how to do this would be appriciated I have looked through past posts but don't seem to have a whole lot of info on getting the job done from beging to end, if there is anyone that has done this and would like to give me adive on how to do so I would appriciate it greatly

thanks,
simon