Factory Painted "Vinyl" Roof

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Saw this car over the week-end. It's a 1969 Dart with modern paint, but the fender tag shows B5 & B7 (top & bottom respectively).

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I've also seen a 1970 Dart with a black painted top and (I believe Go-Mango) orange body. Coincidentally, the 1970 car is owned by the previous, previous owner of my car.

Not sure I've ever seen a 1971 Dart with a painted "vinyl" roof. Do they exist?

What are your thoughts on removing the actual vinyl and painting the roof to look like it's still "vinyl"? Body color? Or the removed vinyl color? Gloss, semi-gloss, matte?

"prettytony" owns this car

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Thoughts?
 
I am redoing a 69 340 Swinger R4 red with Black painted top from factory. I am going white for the top though because its too freakin hot here for a black top.
 
Vinyl is vinyl & paint is paint.

You could get two-tone paint cars from the factory as an option (code V02) & they did typically use the same moldings as vinyl top cars to cover the mask lines.
 
Then there's this, my old '68 Barracuda with the texture paint roof with a glued band down each side to simulate a vinyl top. As far as I could ever tell, it was a factory painted textured roof...

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No factory 'painted' vinyl roof.

Check your tag / broadcast sheet codes.
 
We saw a factory FK5 Burnt Orange V-Code GTX with a black painted top in the arena at Moparfest maybe 10 years ago. I remember it well because the owner showed us the fender tags and everything. Roof code was TX9 if memory serves.

It wasn't that uncommon back then. When I was a boy we had a fastback 1967 Mercury Meteor Rideau 500 (your Monterrey) in Highland green with a white painted top.
 
Alaskan_TA said:
No factory 'painted' vinyl roof.

Check your tag / broadcast sheet codes.
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Yep, not factory. I though maybe you would know what it really was.

Very common dealer add-on called DuPont 1-2-3 simulated vinyl top textured paint that was put on all different makes and models back then. It is often mistaken for a factory option.
 
ya had a 65 barracuda with a textured roof , and a 69 d100 adventurer with the same textured roof
 
The one on my Barracuda was satin black but had a mild droplet texture. Kinda like a thinned-out bedliner or like a trunk splatter paint described above.
 
You see all kinds I think, my car was originally a slickback fastback .... Not too many people knew of this model type.
The owner restored the car completely but then was not able to find the vinyl top and most important the moldings that were in the roof itself. So they just decided to pain the roof.(I think the paint just got gun happy and continued all the way down the hatch, lol)
Thankfullyxi was able to find the moldings ( truly grateful to A56 WHO HAD SOME AND SOLD THEM TO ME)
Next summer I will be putting it back together.

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Ddaddy said:
Yep, not factory. I though maybe you would know what it really was.

Very common dealer add-on called DuPont 1-2-3 simulated vinyl top textured paint that was put on all different makes and models back then. It is often mistaken for a factory option.
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Yep, I did several back in the early 80's when I worked at Brent's motor company, you taped on the seam's and sprayed the textured vinal, the spray gun was similar to the undercoat gun we used.
 
There were a lot of "White hat special" cars in my area back in 70 also.
 
Here is a friends Cuda with a factory painted roof, I believe the code is V02 for the two-tone paint plus the two color codes, these cars typically had the vinyl top trim.
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Alan
 
As said, so-called 'two tone' paint from the factory was common. My dad got new C-body Dodge wagons in '61, '64, and '67; he got all three with beige bodies and bronze roofs.

Now if you want funky aftermarket finishes....I saw my first green-outdoor-carpeted Bronco in '72 LOL
 
nm9stheham said:
As said, so-called 'two tone' paint from the factory was common. My dad got new C-body Dodge wagons in '61, '64, and '67; he got all three with beige bodies and bronze roofs.

Now if you want funky aftermarket finishes....I saw my first green-outdoor-carpeted Bronco in '72 LOL
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You may laugh, but I was contracted to do 3 brand new Lincoln Continental Town Cars with the entire body covered in carpet by a rich Saudi back when I had my auto upholstery business in the early 80s. He was shipping them back to the UAE and wanted an exterior he could have vacuumed for the desert sand and dust rather than washed.

At $2k per car for the work, I didn’t argue.
 
66-68 fender tag paint codes will be 2 letters and a number (Like YY1)

If the two letters are different and the number is 2, it is a painted top car.

This is different than 69 and up tags where the first letter of the paint code is the first year the color was available (EB5 is a 69 formula, GB5 is a 71 mix, and the two are different).
 
I had a 66 Barracuda with a fake vinyl top and had a 64 Belvedere in 1968 with a fake vinyl top. Both had the glue on seem stripe and after market chrome for the piece.
 
My first car was a 65 Dart 270 post car. It had a spray on vinyl top. It was lightly textured and dull gloss black. Plastic trim was used. Wish I had some pics.
 
Also keep in mind that in the late 60's an much of the 70's vinyl tops were in vogue.

I'm sure many people made various attempts to install their own or facsimiles thereof.

I know you could pay to have it done at a shop.

AFAIK, all the factory painted tops used the same factory bolt/clip on trim at the quarter, as the factory vinyl top cars.
 
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