Need Help with Vinyl Roof Disease on '72 Scamp

Need Help with Vinyl Roof Disease on '72 Scamp

Did the swiss cheese car have a roof in as bad a shape? Let me splain why everyone says to flush a car with a roof like this one.

I am sure you know how a roof is put together on one of these. Maybe you aren't thinking about it, so let me remind you. First, there's the inner roof skin. Then there are many reinforcing braces spot welded to that. Finally, the outer roof skin. That's a three layer sammich. I bet that roof has rust between the braces and outer skin, the braces and the inner skin, all the way down the sail panels, into the trunk (he's just not found it yet), into the rear quarters, all the way down the A pillars, and even into the cowl area and into the front fenders. That car is hiding a LOT more rust than meets the eye. I ga-roan-tee.

Pascamp said
I'm kinda surprised at some of the reactions here. Everybody was telling the kid with the Swiss cheese cuda to go for it. You've got a bum lid and everybody's telling you to bail. Scamps are rare and cool, fix it.

Put up a wanted add on here for the Dutchman panel. You'll have one pretty quick and it's easily shippable. You don't need quarters to get the sail panel legs. There's cars getting parted out on here every day and most have rotted lower quarters. Somebody will gladly cut out the upper section for you and it too will ship easily. The roof skin will take a little longer to find locally. They're around though.

A used welder and a spot weld cutter and you're in business. You can learn quick enough to do that. It's not like welding bridge supports. It's only tack welding.