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  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    Back in about 1970, I knew a guy with a '63 Impala SS. A nice car but nothing that special at the time. A guy wanted to trade him straight across for a NICE Model A Victoria but the guy refused.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    edited May 2011
    Well the A, like many early 30s cars, did not have a roof stamped from one piece. It was sectioned and then a rubber/vinyl or whatever the hell it was, covering went over the open center portion of the roof, which was re-inforced with wood.

    Only after the Budd Company (makers of railroad cars) taught the auto industry how to do large stampings, did cars get "turret roofs"...maybe what...1936 or so?
  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    Yep, they called them "turret tops". I didn't know they got them from the railroads though.
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