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Old 03-12-2010, 11:31 AM   #1
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found an aftermarket t-top car at J/Y

i just thought this was weird.











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Re: found an aftermarket t-top car at J/Y

What's so weird? It looks like a standard T-Top car just with the locks reversed.
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Re: found an aftermarket t-top car at J/Y

Those T-Tops look almost exactly like the tops on my 87 LX 5.0 Mustang (my first car.) I wonder if C&C did the ford T-Tops for 87 and 88? I can't seem to find a pic to post.
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Re: found an aftermarket t-top car at J/Y

Those are very deffinately C&C t-tops. Normally they didn't paint that trim piece in front of the t-tops. On my white 88 TA it was left black.
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Re: found an aftermarket t-top car at J/Y

Cars and Concepts did tons of ttop conversions. They are the company behind the Fox body Mustang ttops, and Fiero ttops, for sure. I'm not sure about the 80's G-body cars, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Some people like them, personally I think they come off as cheesy, clunky, garbage compared to the clean install of the factory F-body tops.
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Re: found an aftermarket t-top car at J/Y

im sure the car was repainted at some point, thats why the trim was like that. if any one needs them pm me i can tell you where they are. they seemed to be a decent fit i thought.
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Re: found an aftermarket t-top car at J/Y

C&C was quite the company back in the 80's, they actually designed and made the Banshee prototype, they also made the convertible mustang, and they made the convertible olds Cutlass, in the late 80's and early 90's... I want to think that they made the Fiero T-top conversion and want to think that they experimented with a Fiero convertible... When I was at their shop in the early-mid 90's they had a convertible prototype Beretta that they wanted to pitch to GM... They also managed several GM Cadillac show cars..

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Re: found an aftermarket t-top car at J/Y

Don't forget the Chrysler K-car convertibles... Cars and Concepts actually used the exact same top frame and mechanism on both the Lebaron and the Fox Mustang. The convertibles are just as poor quality as their ttops.
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