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Offline big_iron

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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2011, 12:17:34 PM »
looks like i will be revinyling the top!
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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2011, 12:19:15 PM »
What drove you to that decision? Just curious as I'm sure others are. How about some pics!
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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2011, 12:29:07 PM »
im looking (hopefullly) to fix it for a show car so it needs to be as close to original as possible. ill have pics soon i just havent had time yet. plus if the price is the same as paint to have it topped and i dont have time to paint it myself i might as well make it original. thinking of a slightly darker color than stock though.... maybe more of the saddle brown found in new jeeps.
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mixed martial artist are like pit bulls. were highly trained and bred to protect our family, our property, and ourselves. But when someone rattles the cage and gets bit they aim to put us down like their stupidity is our fault. I am a cage fighter, does that mean i want to hurt you outside the cage? No. will i stand there and let you beat me because im trained to fight inside the cage? No. If you pick a fight i will defend my self, regardless of my training or your lack of. if you get hurt i may feel bad but in the end the fault is yours. If your to stupid not to start something you cant finish the i suggest you stay on the porch.

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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2011, 06:19:51 PM »
If you look at the 2 door in my profile you can't quite tell that it is the original vinyl. Although I would never paint it over but I have thought about changing the color or going with the new canvas look. Since there is not even one crack in it I just can't make myself ruin a original roof. Although i have not taken it to any shows yet it is just important to me not to change it. Once you do, it is gone forever and given these cars history of rust and vinyl rot there might not be to many like it in the same condition around. Even some of the sweet looking 2 doors that I have seen for sale all show close up pictures of dry rotted or cracked vinyl.
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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2011, 07:59:55 PM »
You can restore it over and over but it will only be original once! That said keep the vinyl top.Wouldn't be the same without it!
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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2011, 10:59:44 AM »
looks like the decision is back in the air..... hidden rust traps makes it look like the entire car will need painted  :'( so if it all needs painted i can paint the top rather than vinyl lol
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mixed martial artist are like pit bulls. were highly trained and bred to protect our family, our property, and ourselves. But when someone rattles the cage and gets bit they aim to put us down like their stupidity is our fault. I am a cage fighter, does that mean i want to hurt you outside the cage? No. will i stand there and let you beat me because im trained to fight inside the cage? No. If you pick a fight i will defend my self, regardless of my training or your lack of. if you get hurt i may feel bad but in the end the fault is yours. If your to stupid not to start something you cant finish the i suggest you stay on the porch.

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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2011, 11:20:05 AM »
Quote from: Regalwizard on October 11, 2011, 08:10:28 PM
The other thing you can do, especially if you like the look of the vinyl top (or at least want to keep it looking close to stock), is painting the area that's normally covered by vinyl with bedliner/rockguard - has the texture & look of vinyl, but since it's paint, it won't trap moisture & crud like vinyl tends to.
+1 Most vinyl roofs are there because there were flaws originally. I used Deck Kote (rubberized porch paint with tread bits blended in) to do the roof of my '73 Buick Le Sabre back @ '82 and it looked sharp (hid the fiberglass patches I did over the rust holes under the vinyl roof too)
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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2011, 12:38:17 PM »
What about painting the top where the vinyl was a different color than the rest of the car? At least then you can have the illusion of a vinyl top. I think it would be cool anyway as I like two tone or multiple color paint schemes.

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Re: should i re vinyl or paint the top?
« Reply #23 on: November 11, 2011, 06:54:54 PM »
I wonder if putting truck bed coating on before you redo the roof would help?
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