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/

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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.

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.

Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
 

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? ;)

Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
 

Completely agree with that. A very cool feature.

Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
 

Ive seen the honeycomb wheels called snowflakes too.

diamonds & hexagons, almost the same shape I suppose...... :crazy:

Re: 87 TA with hinged t top
 

I love'm and would like to have that over my OEM T-top

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?

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...

John