87 TA with hinged t top
12-28-2015, 11:03 AM
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87 TA with hinged t top
This car is up for auction at Mecum Kansas City March 2016. Interesting non factory t top application. Appears to open like a sun roof.
https://www.mecum.com/lot-detail/KA0...-Am/Automatic/
https://www.mecum.com/lot-detail/KA0...-Am/Automatic/
12-28-2015, 11:22 AM
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Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
Those are C&C tops. You can tell they are aftermarket by the size of the body area between the front of the ttops and the top of the windshield.
12-28-2015, 11:37 AM
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Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
And it has "Honeycomb wheels" too! Geez, I wish people would get it right with our wheels just half the time!! OK, rant over.
12-28-2015, 03:06 PM
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Main giveaway on those are the detail strip that covers the cut points on the front & back of the t-top area - where they cut the solid roof.
The pop-up feature is pretty cool, too bad GM couldn't have designed it into their tops - I mean they leaked anyways so, why not?
The pop-up feature is pretty cool, too bad GM couldn't have designed it into their tops - I mean they leaked anyways so, why not?
12-28-2015, 06:27 PM
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Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
I love'm and would like to have that over my OEM T-top
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12-28-2015, 09:52 PM
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Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
Same here. Those tops are very cool
On a side note, does anyone happen to know what a c&c conversion cost back the day?
On a side note, does anyone happen to know what a c&c conversion cost back the day?
12-29-2015, 10:34 AM
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Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
Those are not Stock Wheels BTW... They are an aftermarket variation.
I was at a junkyard years and years ago, I saw tops like those and I should have snagged them... how they work IIRC is there was a retainer frame and it clamped down (or up) to the car roof. It was really kind of neat, I tried to see if they would fit on my 87, but obviously they would not fit...
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I was at a junkyard years and years ago, I saw tops like those and I should have snagged them... how they work IIRC is there was a retainer frame and it clamped down (or up) to the car roof. It was really kind of neat, I tried to see if they would fit on my 87, but obviously they would not fit...
John
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