Need Help with Vinyl Roof Disease on '72 Scamp
Inner roof skin?
Uh, no. There is no inner roof skin.
The roof skin on an A body is one layer thick. It’s spot welded in about 200 spots, 50 or so spots per edge. Across the front windshield channel, in the drip rail area on both sides, and across the rear window. It sounds like a lot, but it’s a couple hours with a spot weld cutter.
The only places where there are multiple layers is where the roof skin overlays the pillars, window channels, and hard top structure. And it’s really just the thin flange where the skin is spot welded on. But the parts that are rusted out in the pictures are all the single layer roof skin. Same rust damage as on my bronze Dart GT. Most of that rust can be taken care of with the roof skin replacement. You do need a donor for the roof skin though, they aren’t reproduced.
Pascamp has it right too, you don’t need full quarters. Someone will have those upper quarter/lower C pillar panels. The Dutchman you can buy if you can’t find it.
That’s not a parts car. My bronze GT has a very similar rust damage pattern. Roof skin because of the stupid vinyl top (worst idea ever), some small areas of the upper quarter because of the vinyl coverage there, and the spare tire well. And nothing else. I got a parts car and removed the roof skin, it’s not a big deal at all. Just spot welds to put it back on.
From my parts car (car is long gone, I only have the skin and patches I need for mine now)
Roof skin (single layer of sheet metal)
Structure underneath
Inner roof skin?
Uh, no. There is no inner roof skin.
The roof skin on an A body is one layer thick. It’s spot welded in about 200 spots, 50 or so spots per edge. Across the front windshield channel, in the drip rail area on both sides, and across the rear window. It sounds like a lot, but it’s a couple hours with a spot weld cutter.
The only places where there are multiple layers is where the roof skin overlays the pillars, window channels, and hard top structure. And it’s really just the thin flange where the skin is spot welded on. But the parts that are rusted out in the pictures are all the single layer roof skin. Same rust damage as on my bronze Dart GT. Most of that rust can be taken care of with the roof skin replacement. You do need a donor for the roof skin though, they aren’t reproduced.
Pascamp has it right too, you don’t need full quarters. Someone will have those upper quarter/lower C pillar panels. The Dutchman you can buy if you can’t find it.
That’s not a parts car. My bronze GT has a very similar rust damage pattern. Roof skin because of the stupid vinyl top (worst idea ever), some small areas of the upper quarter because of the vinyl coverage there, and the spare tire well. And nothing else. I got a parts car and removed the roof skin, it’s not a big deal at all. Just spot welds to put it back on.
From my parts car (car is long gone, I only have the skin and patches I need for mine now)
Roof skin (single layer of sheet metal)
Structure underneath
