disabled modeler

Haven't heard from you in a while!  Hope things okay?

Ever have any success with the GM Y-body (Tempest) coupe roof?  I sourced a similar roof from a generous forum follower, but it is full-size and will need to be sectioned both directions, then filled out to resemble the 'faux convertible top' look of the '61-63 BOP compact coupe roof.

Oddly, though Tempest featured a ragtop beginning in '62, they never built a true hardtop (pillarless) on the Y-bodies, though Olds and Buick both did!  The others had the aluminum 215 but hardly raced them at all, but Pontiac raced all their engines, four-banger through the 336-in. iron block in '63.  And of course there were a lot of SD 421 V-8's put in 'rope-drive' Tempests, two of which won big-time: Mickey Thompson's '62 coupes at the NHRA Nationals in Super F/X, and the factory racer cars in '63, that wont top stock and also the USAC Daytona Challenge Cup speedway race with Goldsmith.

Well, keep in touch.  I'm giving a workshop at the VCCA All-Cal meet in Sacramento in early May, and will be taking a few Impala models, as it's on the development of the early Imps, 1958, plus '59-60.  One of the organizers is bringing buit kits from those years to share in my dislaly.  I have 1961 and '62, '64 (my son's) and a '60 Kustom I'm half-through.

Best, Wick