T-tops FINISHED!!! PICS INSIDE

[Fusion]

Hehe, who do we see in that last pic is that lil Mikey in the reflection [img]tongue.gif[/img] You did a good job. Im proud [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Everglades W68]

AWESOME, MIKE!!!!!

The car looks great; the finishing on the T tops looks flawless.

Welcome to the T top world!

BTW, the background in some of those pics (as well as the Feb collision photos shows you live in a great area.

Night driving under the stars with the tops off is a true pleasure that few get to enjoy.

Congrats again!

[Domestic Violence]

have you noticed if you have any added wind noise? i was wondering about that and haven't asked yet.

[RaVeN1469]

I can safely say this is the first T-top conversion I have ever seen. And if I wasn't told it wasn't there from the factory I wouldn't have suspected any less. Does the headliner fit up good? Some sort of a write up would be a great idea, I'm sure theres alot of hard tops that would love to know how to do this and maybe seeing how it's done would take a bit of fear away. Defeniatley something I would never try without a good how-to laying around. I wouldn't trade my T-tops for anything!! Hope you like them

[camaro_zach]

very nice buddy. i know, its hard to do it when everyone tells you to just trade it in and get a new one. well they dont do the math. I wanted a manual, i could not of gotten my car exactly with a manual for $700 at a dealarship with a trade in.

[MTMike]

First off, here are the closeups of where you can see that it wasn't a factory job. A friend and I are going to re-finish it this summer which will hopefully make it look a little better, when it's warmer outside. But this will do for now. As you can see, the cut is not perfectly straight. Again, I'm not too worried about it.







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<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Everglades W68:
AWESOME, MIKE!!!!!

The car looks great; the finishing on the T tops looks flawless.

Welcome to the T top world!

BTW, the background in some of those pics (as well as the Feb collision photos shows you live in a great area.

Night driving under the stars with the tops off is a true pleasure that few get to enjoy.<hr></blockquote>

Thanks! As beautiful as it is here, I still hate it. I just can't sanely tolerate 8+ months of winter-like weather every year. Plus it's almost ALWAYS overcast. I'm fixing to move AWAY from here in a few years. Also, I'm waiting for a night that isn't below freezing so I can do some star-gazing thru the open tops. It'll be mid-late June before that happens.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Domestic Violence:
have you noticed if you have any added wind noise? i was wondering about that and haven't asked yet.<hr></blockquote>

There has been a notable increase in windnoise, but not unbearable. I've only riden in 1 factory-t-topped car once nad that was Dominic's old firebird down the 1/8th in Florida last summer. Other than that, I have no idea how much louder if any factory t-topped cars are. I have a good feeling if it is any louder a factory t-topper, it's only VERY slightly.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by RaVeN1469:
I can safely say this is the first T-top conversion I have ever seen. And if I wasn't told it wasn't there from the factory I wouldn't have suspected any less. Does the headliner fit up good? Some sort of a write up would be a great idea, I'm sure theres alot of hard tops that would love to know how to do this and maybe seeing how it's done would take a bit of fear away. Defeniatley something I would never try without a good how-to laying around. I wouldn't trade my T-tops for anything!! Hope you like them<hr></blockquote>

The headliner fits up PERFECT. I made sure of it before I started cutting. I have a pretty detailed writup that can be seen here: T-top Conversion Writeup That link is also in my signature.

-Mike

[Kidinthehall2001]

Man, it took so long for you to tell us how ya did it, i just went ahead and bought a convertable [img]tongue.gif[/img] ;) Maybe ya can help me put t-tops in that :D

[Skapimp]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Kidinthehall2001:
Man, it took so long for you to tell us how ya did it, i just went ahead and bought a convertable [img]tongue.gif[/img] ;) Maybe ya can help me put t-tops in that :D <hr></blockquote>

Uhm... you do realize you live in ALASKA right?! Don't you only have like 5 min. of sunlight a day? God damn... your a crazy mofo!... hahaha ;) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Kidinthehall2001]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Skapimp:


Uhm... you do realize you live in ALASKA right?! Don't you only have like 5 min. of sunlight a day? God damn... your a crazy mofo!... hahaha ;) [img]tongue.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>

Yeah, but i only got a year left, and when you live here for awile, at 50 degrees, the top comes down and the shorts come on! :D

[MTMike]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Kidinthehall2001:


Yeah, but i only got a year left, and when you live here for awile, at 50 degrees, the top comes down and the shorts come on! :D <hr></blockquote>

You guys are a little more hearty up there... it's 55-60 before the tops come out and the shorts come on.....

To a Floridian, 60 degrees is "Parka/heater/ski-pants/fly south for the winter" weather..... :D I hope, some day I'm that way too. GOD I HATE WINTER. I'm making plans to move out of this place as soon as I possibly can.

-Mike

[Domestic Violence]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Kidinthehall2001:

when you live here for awile, at 50 degrees, the top comes down and the shorts come on! :D <hr></blockquote>

don't ever move to texas. you would die of a heat stroke during the winter. ;)

[cixelsyd10]

I want t-tops. But, what I want more is that lil convertible deal that the hard top corvettes/porches have. Its very similar to a T-Top, but w/o the bar in the middle. Could it be done as nicely as you did yours, do you think?