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| This is the donor vehicle that the roof came from. | The bed swings out on struts. |
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| The canvas is shot | The struts are spring-loaded |
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| These holes are for the luggage rack | The pop-top loaded for the trip home. |
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| 2 weeks later we came back for the frame | |
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| Looks like an easy fit! | Dennis marks out the spot welds |
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| Martin drills them out. | End view. We want to keep the outer skin and lose the box-section framing. |
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| The box section frame is now cut away from the ouer skin | We used a circular saw & cut-off blade |
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| It was quite cold in the garage | |
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| The cross-bars required careful separation from the box-section to keep the skin intact. | |
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| Cutting up the roof | No going back now. |
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| inside view. Notice all the sparks! | be sure to remove all flamable items from the vehicle |
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| up, up, and away | |
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| trimming the edges | getting the skin into place |
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| A fine night's work | |
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| Cheers! | |
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| The angle-grinder was a great help on this job. | we cleaned the paint from the roof to get better welds |
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| The roof is ready for welding | Ugh. Always check under the slider track covers. |
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| Much better after the grinding is done. | |
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| Dennis is ready to weld | |
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| Grinding the beads flat | |
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| Removing the interior panels | |
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| pop-rivets held the inside skin in place | Collie helped with grinding |
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| Duct tape? I don't think so! | |
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| Nice flat welds. | |
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| Welding the corner into place | |
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| Much better now! | It'll look even better soon. |
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| See what I mean. | Windsheild = gone. |
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| The window frame is in very good shape | While we had the welder, we welded in the swivel seat base |
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| this assembly bolts to the base | This is a vanagon seat |
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| long strand fibreglass | |
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| The sliding door track is in good condition | |
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| A small hole in the drivers floor | cut square to remove porous metal |
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| a peice of roof metal bead-welded in place | ...and some filler to smooth it out |
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| looks OK from the outside, too. | Matthew helps with the last of the sanding |
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| Prepped for paint | It'll be a week at Maaco |
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| So we painted the pop-top | 2 coats of Interlux Premium Yacht enamel |
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| Very nice paint, but expensive. | When the paint dried we replaced the canvas |
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| An electric stapler is very handy with canvas installation | Dennis was very helpful with this |
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| But he did let me do some of the work. | the plastic retainer strips go on last. |
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| Fresh from the paint shop | Of course, it had to rain that day, |