R.I.P Sad day for a T Top

[SVT32VDOHC]

That is a joke if that car goes to a junkyard. You can pull those rails, weld in a new core support and that right side fender apron, hang a hood and bumper, bump the fenders, paint and boom back on the road. Problem is any insurance company will total it...you need to pay cash out of pocket for a collision shop to do that.

 

[gregpro50]

Clip anther front end and have it welded on from behind the strut towers forward. I just repaired an SVO with worse damage than that. With the parts supplied all the frame work cost me $1500 and I just put it back together and painted it. It will need to see a frame machine though.

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

Clip anther front end and have it welded on from behind the strut towers forward. I just repaired an SVO with worse damage than that. With the parts supplied all the frame work cost me $1500 and I just put it back together and painted it. It will need to see a frame machine though.

That's another way to do it. More work, but actually better than what I suggested, because all the bent stuff is now long gone and replaced like it was never wrecked before.

 

[black87ttop]

see our problem is finding somewhere to have the work done... we dont have the tools to be able to do it ourselves and a body shop will want to much money. He only had liability insurance on the car so he will be paying all out of pocket... so have a new front clip put on is kinda tough.. he really would like to save the t-top though....anyone near philadelphia thats willing to do the font end??

 

[Darkwriter77]

If you can't fix it, at least sell it. DO NOT condemn a T-top like that to a junkyard! Someone that's got some bodywork skills, or the funds to have it done, would GLADLY take that car and bring it back to life.

 

[black87ttop]

hahaha bloop.. the hood pins were on the car when he got it... it had long wires on it connecting them but he cut them off. And the coffee is on the roof because the pics were takin the day after the crash!! lol

 

[fivespeedsteed]

yeah dont junkyard that. save it.

 

[cervinistang]

please dont junkyard it!! =[

 

[lucky bagels]

any good parts left on it?

 

[skunk21]

like the others said if he can't fix it buy it back from the insurance if he had collision. ebay it, list in our classifieds, craigslist anything but the scrap heap. T-Tops are rare man don't it. if I had the cash I would buy the damn thing, that is so fixable. he would make some money of it. talk some sense into the boy!!

 

[black87ttop]

we wont let the car go to the junkyard, when i said that it was just a figure of speech or something. I wont let him junk it. He doesnt have full coverage, so all the repairs are out of pocket. So for him it wil be alot cheaper to take the car im giving him and swap the engine and trans. He just doesnt have that kind of scratch to pay a body shop to replace the whole front frame section from the donor car im giving him. If he had the money he would love to fix the t top car. But it makes more sense since he lives in an apartment he has nowhere to store it as it is.Were talking about all the option and we'll take the one that makes the most sense.

 

[NIKwoaC]

I have a T-Top car and one of my greatest fears is smashing a Top by dropping it or a branch falling on it or something. How hard is it to find replacement tops? Maybe you could part the car out to some unlucky T-Top owners. But before I'd ever do that I think I'd find someone who wanted to fix it and sell it to them, It really doesn't look like the car is in bad shape at all. Those headlights/hood/bumper look like they needed replaced and repainted anyway

 

[stock90GT]

what's the big freakin deal with y'all and t-top cars? i would rather have a sunroof car than t-top, my friend has an 87 Gt that i have been able to buy for forever that is clean and needs paint, motor, and tranny, but guess what, i don't want another t-top car

 

[cervinistang]

yeah.. i always wondered where we could find replacement t-tops.. incase something did happen.

 

[stock90GT]

I have a T-Top car and one of my greatest fears is smashing a Top by dropping it or a branch falling on it or something. How hard is it to find replacement tops? Maybe you could part the car out to some unlucky T-Top owners. But before I'd ever do that I think I'd find someone who wanted to fix it and sell it to them, It really doesn't look like the car is in bad shape at all. Those headlights/hood/bumper look like they needed replaced and repainted anyway

you just have to look, my friend has 2 or 3 different t-top parts cars also

 

[gregpro50]

see our problem is finding somewhere to have the work done... we dont have the tools to be able to do it ourselves and a body shop will want to much money. He only had liability insurance on the car so he will be paying all out of pocket... so have a new front clip put on is kinda tough.. he really would like to save the t-top though....anyone near philadelphia thats willing to do the font end??

I had mine done at carstar. I'm sure you have one of them around there where you are. Most shops hate the disassembly-reassembly part and are glad to just take car of the frame damage. If the rest of the car is solid and straight I would get it fixed. Or if you want a T-top car then converting another car to T-tops really isnt that hard to do. I've done a couple.

 

[NIKwoaC]

what's the big freakin deal with y'all and t-top cars? i would rather have a sunroof car than t-top, my friend has an 87 Gt that i have been able to buy for forever that is clean and needs paint, motor, and tranny, but guess what, i don't want another t-top car

Blasphemy!

 

[BLOWN 5.0 FOX]

TTops are the perfect compromise between a hatch and a vert. If youve never driven one, you can never really look down at them. Sure they arent for everybody, but there is nothing sweeter than cruising with the tops off on a nice summer day.

 

[rywhite85]

hey gregpro, im the guy who actually owns the car and i was wondering just how involved it is in taking a car and making it a ttop since you said you have done a couple. trust me guys, ive learned how rare these are and i DO NOT want to get rid of it. i just want to find my easiest/cheapest solution. any ideas help.

 

[strtrcr50]

see our problem is finding somewhere to have the work done... we dont have the tools to be able to do it ourselves and a body shop will want to much money. He only had liability insurance on the car so he will be paying all out of pocket... so have a new front clip put on is kinda tough.. he really would like to save the t-top though....anyone near philadelphia thats willing to do the font end??

The body shop that did my car would do it. Not sure if it would make sense money wise tho.