roof2.jpg
336 hits | 55 KB | Posted: 4/11/10
a bondo'd over hole started leaking water inside

roof1.jpg
297 hits | 51.22 KB | Posted: 4/11/10
maybe it was for a CB antenna

Rubber Duck ya got yer ears on?

Bandit? Snowman?

roof3.jpg
389 hits | 44.91 KB | Posted: 4/11/10
duck tape patch kept the water out for a while

roofPitted.jpg
311 hits | 59.87 KB | Posted: 4/17/10
or so I thought, it kept getting wet inside

Image001.jpg
316 hits | 51.58 KB | Posted: 4/11/10
maybe i shoulda put a bigger patch on it?

Image000.jpg
298 hits | 67.36 KB | Posted: 4/11/10
what to do, what to do?

Image002.jpg
471 hits | 61.56 KB | Posted: 4/11/10
saving the edges is gonna be hard enough

Image004.jpg
310 hits | 63.73 KB | Posted: 4/11/10
so lets just get rid of the middle part

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283 hits | 48.51 KB | Posted: 4/11/10
the cut-off wheel doesn't turn so good

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292 hits | 51.67 KB | Posted: 4/11/10

Image007.jpg
285 hits | 41.61 KB | Posted: 4/11/10

pittedcraters.jpg
436 hits | 51.82 KB | Posted: 4/23/10
after grinding some, the pitted areas started crumbling through

lets not kid ourselves, there's onl...

siderust.jpg
313 hits | 76 KB | Posted: 4/15/10
so i decided to cut the skin off

ugly is to the bone

siderust2.jpg
357 hits | 71.73 KB | Posted: 4/15/10
this thing's gonna be a convertible pretty soon

workbench2.jpg
332 hits | 54.65 KB | Posted: 4/19/10
whoop dey it is

HowItStarted.jpg
333 hits | 41.08 KB | Posted: 4/19/10
this must be what the old roof looked like 20 years ago, looks like the same exact spots

template.jpg
415 hits | 66.38 KB | Posted: 4/23/10
i made a template to locate the same points on both roofs. i started with the widest opening at the ...

chopped.jpg
417 hits | 60.9 KB | Posted: 4/23/10
pretty committed at this point

allowance.jpg
309 hits | 67.77 KB | Posted: 4/23/10
i left some allowance metal to form another factory style lap joint below the one on the new roof be...

ApillarXsection.jpg
410 hits | 62.47 KB | Posted: 4/25/10
cross section of the A pillar and hose clamp cutting guide

FirstFit.jpg
307 hits | 60.56 KB | Posted: 4/24/10
first test fit of the new roof, not too bad at all

drvsail.jpg
451 hits | 62.07 KB | Posted: 4/26/10
drivers side sail panel

drvinbed.jpg
308 hits | 66.33 KB | Posted: 4/26/10
driver side bed sail

drvApillar.jpg
343 hits | 64.68 KB | Posted: 4/26/10
drivers side A pillar, hose clamps are holding a piece of plastic tubing for safety

ShldrBeltMount.jpg
410 hits | 40.98 KB | Posted: 5/14/10
the 72 didn't get the same shoulder belt mount that later years did, in the rear corner of the roof

ShldrBeltStructure.jpg
281 hits | 38.89 KB | Posted: 5/14/10
i wonder if i dodged a bullet by not trying to rebuild the inner structure, these reinforcements mig...

NoShlderBelt.jpg
499 hits | 29.53 KB | Posted: 5/14/10
there's nothing there in the 72 roof

WeldTrench.jpg
394 hits | 42.83 KB | Posted: 5/15/10
offsetting both edges created a new recessed seam to weld in and mud over

metal.jpg
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we have metal!