Features Origin of this roof.

Does anyone know the make and year of the roof on this car?

This is not a trick question, the info was not in the online write-up.

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Me?? I think that there has been metal added to the 'C' pillar, making it *look* like a different roof. Quite a common technique, used on such lowly as Omni TC3.

Cosmo

 

looks like a modified stock roof. definitley not any kind of improvement.

 

Gives it sort of a coupe look...

 

I hafta agree........

 

At first, it reminded me of a 58 Chevy roof, but the C pillar is reversed

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Or like a Chevy that Chevrolet tried to make look like a Caddy that someone tried to make look like a Lincoln Continental II?

 

My guess is 57 buick or olds

 

I'm calling Alzheimer's on this:

 

looks like a stock rear window and convertible quarter windows. that pic kinda looks photo shopped tho.

 

The rear 1/4 window is shortened and metal added to the rear post. It looks like stock rear glass.

 

That car was at Goodguys/Charlotte a few years ago and I talked to the owner .I asked about the roof ,but dang if I can remember the exact details...seems like the shop that built it used the stock roof, but made the 1/4 window follow the chrome roof molding curvature ..He also told me what the roof molding came from...(Buick Cabellero ... maybe..???.) Ya gotta remember ,I'm working with a 72 y/o brain..!!!
I know the car was featured in several mags after it was finished.... (Street Rodder possibly 2010 ??)

 

The door looks short and there is no wing vent. I think it's a 4 door with about a foot of the rear door sectioned out and the rear sail panel extended .


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Thanks for all the replies. It seems the door length is stock, but its the rear window mystery.

Looks like a four door hardtop roof with a two door hardtop window, if that's possible.

 

You guys are nuts,,I like it,,,well the top that is..the wheels suck! HRP

 

I'm going to have to agree that its a 57 olds roof but with the original chevy back window and some filling in on the C pillar.

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Looks like a 56 Olds rear window and roof but the moulding puzzles me.

 

Don't be so negative. Remember.

 

Another look at it here. Looks OK to me, you could do a lot worse. Well, I could.

http://chevrolet.carphoto.biz/var/1/6-chevrolet-bel-air-1956.jpg

 

I've seen this car at a goodguys car show before, it is definitely a 2 dr hardtop with the original roof. It just had the c pillar filled in and the grille was upside down.

I really looked awful sitting beside a stock 2dr hardtop.

 

I believe it has had some metal added to it but I think the rear section of this roof started life as a 1958 Buick Four Door (see attached).

 

I've been tested, yes, I am nuts, but that does not change my thoughts on that car, Fugly roof !!!!, oh and the wheels too.

 

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/1102sr_1956_chevrolet_bel_air/

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It looks like the car has been shortened slightly... but it might be just me...

 

Roof molding off a 57 - 58 Ford 500 2dr ht.....

 

I like the colors more than anything.

 

that looks to be a very high quality well built ugly car.

 

The roof doesn't bother me, I kinda like it....but that grille should see a good Orthodontist!

 

sometimes doing things to be "different" is aahh,,... difrent....

 

56 isn't my favorite year of the tri fives, but if the car was built with more of a 60's vibe I think the roof would be Ok. Because of the overall look of the car as it sits, the roof and the rest of the mods don't work for me.