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Hardtop roof for GM Y-body cars; Tempest/F85/Special: it's me again askin'


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Sorry to be askin' again, but I still need a hardtop roof for my 1963 Pontiac Tempest/LeMans ragtop body, to make it a coupe.  Even a roof lifted from a big GM coupe of the 1962-64 era would help, if I narrowed it down to fit the Y-body.  Funny, that roof appeared first in GM on the '61 'senior' compacts, and funnier; though Pontiac released a convertible body with Buick/Olds in '62, they never added in the true pillarless hardtop body -- until the Chevelle-based A-body cars debuted in '64, of course!

I have a Tempest 'Monte Carlo' dream car rep model, a '63 421 Super Duty racer (both built in those years, or at least started!), and a '62 ragtop done like our 1/1 LeMans from a few years ago.  I want to build my last '63 as a coupe, and paint it like our '61 Tempest 1/1 coupe, ivory white top with dawn firemist body.  I still have trading material, especially from annual kits c. 1960-65.

I'm a member of the 'Little Indians' chapter of POCI, and wrote the complete Tempest history for Special Interest Autos Magazine back in 1978 -- when Mickey Thompson, Mac MacKellar, Bill Collins, and all those guys were still around to be interviewed!  Those were the days... !  Wick

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Would a Monogram 1964 GTO or AMT 1962 Catalina roof work? I may have one of those in the stash. 
 

Edit: I did a search and these are not Y-bodies. 

Edited by LDO

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