Different Vinyl tops?

[Cooltech]

Hi everyone, just wondering if there would be a place that one could get a vinyl top that comes down to the drip edge and up to the windshield? Plans to paint the car with Hugger Orange and wanted to break it up with a vinyl top but was not to keen on the Monte style. 

Thanks!!

[Dtret]

When you buy a top to put on it,it goes windshield to below back glass. There should be enough left to go to the drip moldings but then you will have to cut all the trim pins off the roof. What are your plans on the back end of the car below the back glass and the sale panels. There is chrome there also 

[Cooltech]

The car originally didnt have a vinyl top so that the trim pins are not an issue but the below the back glass I would have to get the trim and also the trims pieces for the sale panels.

Thanks for your reply!!

 

[Canuck]

As mentioned, the vinyl that is available is large enough to go to the drip rails.

[Dtret]

If you do the back glass vinyl you will have to add pins to hold the trim down and also the chrome going along side on sale panel will end about two inches short of mating up with the drip molding. Mabey 1 1/2

[Cooltech]

Ok, thanks for the info. I would have never thought of those trims being short on the panels. 
 

Thank you guys!!

[overdrive]

As was noted above, the factory trim won't work for a vinyl top reaching the drip rails. Aftermarket tops were installed like you are describing, but I doubt the trim needed to install the top that way exists. 

 

Dan

[714024SPEED]

On our 71 it had a Chevelle style top went to drop molding and down a pillar when we bought it this may be what you are looking for

[Dtret]

Ya know. That don’t look to bad🤔

[Canuck]

There’s likely some aftermarket trim still available somewhere. I think back then they used some universal trim that could be bent to the required shape. Maybe a local upholstery place can answer that question.

The other option is to use the factory trim that goes around the back window and along the sail panels then cut a piece of trim to fill the gap to meet up with the drip rail. That could work.

[Dtret]

That the piece that goes along the roof, cut off two inches and slide it over and it should sit under the drip rail and not be really noticed — cut the front section by the windshield 

[Dtret]

Here’s another way to do the trim. Use the left up the sale piece on the right side and the right side on the left side and a little massaging. Wa la

[Cooltech]

Wow!! Those are great ideas guys!! Very much appreciated!!

cheers!!