Hot Rods The PERFECT 1932 Ford Roadster TOP

A friend needs some ideas on what the perfect 1932 Ford Roadster top should look like. Please post some photos. Merry Christmas!

 

Works for me!!!----Don

 

I like this one.

 

Here is one we just completed using stock type irons and bows. Gates made the top for a 3 inch chop windshield. This is an early look for a top.

 

Ken Schmidts Roadster of Rolling Bones fame... best top profile of all time in my opinion

 

my old roadster project...Bop Top...chopped 3".

 

I like mine !

 

Did you all fab the frame up yourselves or is there a place to get a set of plans to make one from . I wanted to cut the top off my pick up , shorten the bed and make a top for those summer thunder storms that pop up from no where ! Any help would be very grateful !
If there is any place or a thread someplace , please let me know .

I wish you & your family a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS !

RetroJim

 

I like Gary Lang's 32 Roadster top, and it folds up and stores in the trunk.
HemiDeuce.

 

Bop Top chopped 3 inches

 

bob lee style top is the only one for me. anyone have a pic of one from the 40's. billy

 

Get a picture of Andy's from Kerrville TX. It is a peach of a top!

 

I like the way the angles were cut on the top of my old roadster.

 

i dont have a pic of it but the hank negley roadster from the '40's or '50's has one of the best. and as hellmet said the bob lee tops were good looking as well.
Al.

 

Rodwell windsheild & top worked good for me.

 

Here's a friends 32 with a 'home made' hard top, looks the dogs bits if you ask me .......




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It don't get no better than this. The curve at the rear of the side window is critical.

 

Oh yeah! That is THE top!

 

Heres the one on my roadster...

 

Another shot

 

I really like this one!

 

Eventually I'll be doing the same (making a top for my rpu), but I think this thread is for roadster cars. I did a search but came up with 11 pages of possible answers... I'll get back to you. (edit: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350203&highlight=rpu+cloth+top )

I'm not fond of the roadster tops that are shorter in the back than the front in the side curtain area.

Merry Christmas!

 

Glass lift off I made.

 

Obviously, it depends on the look your after, but for the traditional look it is hard (if not impossible) to beat the lines of a Houser designed Carson Top

 

MY PERSONAL FAVE ALSO!
I have a Bob Lee top not yet installed on my 3" chop windshield.

 

I really like the ones cut like Danny's (Dirty2) and this one:







I have a couple more, but Photobucket sucks right now, so I'll post them later...


Malcolm

 

Karl Orr's is just perfect have another pic just for the sake of it

 

I agree with tommy and a host of others, Karl Orr's is perfection and it's 70+ years old.

 

Another, featured in the latest Rodder's Journal
(taken @ GNRS 2009)

 

That is a model a but still a good looking top.