i saw on tv how they made the headliner of a hotrod have flames on it and stuff and im wondering if there was anything cool i could do to a t-top headliner? im goin this weekend to the junk yard to hopefully pick up a headliner board and then im going to redo it and i was it to be different than everybody elses, you know, set off the interior! any ideas? thanks

 

also, has anybody ever painted the plastic shifter trim and radio bezel face on a t/a? i was thinking about painting then like a chrome color and then painting the plastic piece on the guages chrome or maybe just around the guages. i have a black interior so i thought this would look pretty sweet. and i have a stock black t/a wheel and i thought id paint the metal spokes chrome too, maybe it will set it all off? what do you think? that new plastic paint stuff is pretty good so i know it would work.

 

i forgot, has anybody ever put one of those square rs shifter ***** in a trans am? i like those alot better than the t-handle, so i was wanting to change it and put in a square one from a camaro.

 

I remember someone made some cardboard cutouts of a fire bird emblem and then glued it onto his headliner and covered it. It looked sweet as he11.

 

I have a link to it in my sig..
It's not too much work unless you plan out everything you are going to do.
I'm also in the works of some door panels also. They are also on my site.

 

http://www.geocities.com/tzfbird/Headliner
http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/import/headliner.html

Mathius

 

thats AWSOME! i love the bird but i have t-tops, i need a small designe. anybody have any suggestions? how hard is it to make the bird thats under the headliner? im not artistic at all so its gunna be a challange for me but ill try it.

 

I don't know if it would look very good since you are using a thick headliner material and trying to cover a small object. I doubt there is going to be much for you to to with T's. About the only things I can think of are some flames. But, I guess you'll just have to think about it for a while.. I'm sureyou'll come up with a good idea.

Good luck.

 

yeah, im thinkin flames that start on that big spot in the back and then go up and spread out on the "T" in front. but like i said im not artistic at all so itll take me a while to make flames.

 

that sounds cool, post pics when your done.
\m/

 

I kept this picture of redraif's redone t-top headliner, to show you how the material could be wrapped. This seems to be the hardest part of doing a t-top one:

Mathius

 

At least I'm pretty sure these were redraif's pics.

Mathius

 

i just simpley need a headliner does anyone know where i can get one for a t-top for cheap i can't see spending $245 or more on a headliner...

 

I got one out of a salvage yard for $10. I had to recover it.. but it's better than buying a new one. But they are all usually falling apart though.

 

Looks like you got your headliner questions taken care of but no one has addressed your questions about painting your radio bezel and your console top. There have been a few people who have done that on here. I did the same as Flyinlow89 did and painted mine chrysler metallic platinum. I also have the shifter **** from a 93 grand am cause my t-bar one broke. It will fit as long as the retainer clip slides in in the same position. All the shifter **** does is push a plastic rod down inside the shifter itself. This is kind of a bad pic but you can see my radio trim and different shifter. Hope that helps!

 

yeah, thats what i want to do, does it go well with your interior? do you think it would look better with the guages around the circle painted? also did you paint the radio bezel front too? i cant really tell in that picture. if you ever get any other pictures let me know, id really like to see what it looks like

 

Yeah I did the radio bezel too. Somewhere I have more pix of it I will look for them. I haven't decided whether to do the trim around the gauges yet but flyinlow89 did his and they look good but his car is that color too. All I painted were the panels that were that glossy black checkerboard stuff. I never liked it and mine was starting to get really scratched. Those being the only panels in the car that checkerboard stuff I didn't think that they would look out of place with a little face lift!

 

Actual headliner material really isn't that thick and is pretty stretchy, unless you want to go with vinyl or leather or something. You should be able to do about anything you want, unless you want something real intricate with lots of little detail. You don't have much to work with on a t-top headliner but it shouldn't be hard. Just use some high density 1/4 foam and cut out the design that you want, 45 the edges and glue it on there. Then glue your headliner material over it, be sure to get good around the edges and take your time. Same goes for wrapping the headliner, just take your time and its not hard at all, just cut what you need at the corners to make it lay nice.

 

i was thinking of doing something like this and was wondering if you would use actual headliner material that has the padding on the back or something else thanks