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Started by chetbrz, March 10, 2014, 12:48:41 PM

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chetbrz

Crazy Dave,

I believe you have a 4 door car and I was wondering if while the roof is exposed you could provide two measurements so that I may calculate the roof slope.

See your picture below.  The two dimensions I would like to verify are:

The thickness of the wood at the windshield.  (Right, Left, and Center)
The thickness of the wood at the door posts.  (Right & Left)

Thanks,  Chet...
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chetbrz

Steve,

In the very first post of this thread I was asking for a couple of dimensions.  Is it possible for you to provide this info.

The two dimensions I would like to verify are:

The thickness of the wood at the windshield.  (Right, Left, and Center)
The thickness of the wood at the door posts.  (Right & Left)

I am not sure what was under the original roof but I did see a barn find car and it looked like it was covered with burlap than the top surface.

Chet...


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SteveG

No problem Chet. I'll get some this afternoon.
SteveG

SteveG

My car is a coupe, but here's some approx. measurements;

windshield - right-2"  left-2" Center- 2 5/6"
door post - by windshield-2" door post-2 5/16"

SteveG

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kimmc

Hey Chet.  I took a little time to day to do some measurements and diagrams to help you with your project.  Although I have a '29 coupe and you a sedan, I expect there are many similarities in the top wood structure from the windshield back as far as the B post.  So that's what I detailed.  The back of the front wood piece is fixed to the flat steel plate above the windshield.  The length of that piece falls short of the outside edge of the A post by about 5/8 inch on each end.  The out side edge of the side wood piece is curved to follow the curve of the top of the door; the inside edge of this piece is straight from the A post to the B post (maybe the pictures will help show this).  I traced the actual curve of the pieces in some places and noted those on the diagram; otherwise, much of the diagram is not to scale.  Hope it all makes sense once you look at the diagram and pics.  If not, send me a note.  Good luck with your project. I get lots of help from the Forum too, so maybe this stuff will be useful to others.  mc

kimmc

Hmmmmm.....   the diagram was very big on the first message.  I'm going to try to send it as a smaller image.  mc

kimmc

Chet....same result....any advice?  mc

chetbrz

Quote from: kimmc on March 11, 2014, 10:25:33 PM
Chet....same result....any advice?  mc

Kim,

I downloaded the original document from the forum. 

Thanks,  Chet...
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