Is this T-top Roof worth buying?

[MustangOwner]

Is this roof worth buying? J/w! Its look like he cut it right, but i don't know much about transplatting roofs. I might be getting a '85 Hardtop that needs a paint job and would considering installing this if it cut it right. Tell me any bad things you notice about it. Thanks!

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z191/Mustangman2146/6311_1.jpg

Edit: Weren't T-tops installed on a hard top roof? So couldn't you take apart this t-top assembly and install it on a hard top like they did? I imagine cutting the entire roof would be a difficult job at getting the doors and hatch to sit properly like they did before.... Just my thoughts!

[la.fraude]

They were. No factory t-tops, all after market. Many can expand on this but they are amoung other thing, riveted in. As far as I can tell, that would work. All the essentials are in the very top of the roof. Sad, thats an awesome color car. I'd buy that just to have it if i ever did want to do a ttop conversion. I think my coupe would be awesoem with it.

oh, you are going to want subframe connectors. Else stuff will start saggin like an old woman. Gotta stiffen that car.

[MustangOwner]

Hey thanks for the reply! Yeah i love T-tops and i wish every car i have had them ha. I want to do the conversion and make a thread of it. I've still yet to find one of the conversion...

[bbarber275]

You will need new doors also.

[Mustang Matt]

And T-top windows and regulators. And about $800 worth of weatherstrip. I am collecting parts to do one someday. Dont have the car yet though.

[85ksp]

Why would you cut a hardtop car to make it a T-Top? I have a hard top 85 and a 85 T-Top and the hardtop is ten times the car.

[negusm]

Argghh.

There is no such thing as a "hardtop" fox Mustang.

A hardtop is a specific term referring to a car with no B-pillar.

If it were me, I'd forget the TTops and put in a sunroof...in a way the ttop conversion is like rebuilding the whole car all over again. Tons of parts are needed to finish the job.

-Mike

[mustangpro]

Argghh.

There is no such thing as a "hardtop" fox Mustang.

A hardtop is a specific term referring to a car with no B-pillar.

If it were me, I'd forget the TTops and put in a sunroof...in a way the ttop conversion is like rebuilding the whole car all over again. Tons of parts are needed to finish the job.

-Mike

I agree, now that I have a t-top, I couldn't imagine converting a non t-top into one.

[bbarber275]

I did see a guy do it once on a stang.He did a great job, but he owned a junk yard and had like 10 different stangs he took parts off to make the new stang up he was building.He even had a wrecked NYS Police LX, and only used it for the Suspension parts.I was lucky and got the motor from wrecked NYS Troopers car and put in my very first 83 stang.Still wish I had my first stang again, but I get another 83 gt last spring.

[coley]

so how much is the roof going for. I am getting ready to sale everything to for a t-top swap. I think I even got the bags too....

[MustangOwner]

so how much is the roof going for. I am getting ready to sale everything to for a t-top swap. I think I even got the bags too....

$75.00 for what is pictured. Doors were $150.00 clean for both sides..

[81merc]

I helped a friend cut an '88 coupe for t-tops. He ended selling the car for an asinine amount of money. It's not as hard as it sounds, all t-top cars were originally built as solid-roofs and the conversion was finished by Cars&Concepts. The doors are usuable with the right cuts, that's all they did. Pull up the corner caps on a 'vert, you'll see the cut. The regulators for a 'vert and t-top specific glass. The hardest parts to find unless you have a parts car are the weatherstrip retainers along the pillars. Most people cut through them accidently when cutting off the roof. I agree that subs should be installed but the "original" t-top cars didn't have any extra bracing.