Well I finally took the crappy soft top off of my Plymouth and decided to start building a filler piece to fill in the giant gap where the original cut on the body is and where the convertable top was. I'm gonna build it out of 3/4" MDF with some 2x2's and 2x4's with a built in storage area and a speaker box for a 10" Kicker Solo Baric subwoofer. I'm thinking about possibly making the top, exposed piece, out of really nice cedar and staining it with boat teak. (If I go that route I will also plan on doing some custom woodwork to the inside as well.) But I may end up shaving some foam and wrapping it in vinyl instead. After I complete that I'm going to start build a removalbe hardtop. It will start out with a wood frame and get possibly get fiberglassed or maybe I'll just wrap that in vinyl too. Not sure on that yet. All I know right now is that I need more wood.

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The Start of the frame



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Trunk area before:



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Anybody else done something like this? Any tips?