Re: 1955 Caribbean top material

Posted by Leeedy On 2022/4/15 13:23:42
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West Peterson wrote:
Can someone measure the back plastic window on the top? It seems that Electron's window size is way too big. Their catalog says they will make it any size, but I need to know what the correct size is.

I'm am taking your advice and ordering the light colored liner. Thanks.


What DIY-ers don't realize is that to a professional trimmer, a convertible "rear window size" is usually measured from the entire size of what trimmers would refer to as "the curtain." The curtain is what goes under the outer top itself. DIY-ers presume this size if the "window opening" size in the top itself... which to pro trimmers is a whole different animal. The window curtain is the entire rear window assembly which may be much larger than the visible window opening as seen on a completed top itself.

I know Electron is a very different company from the old days when I was using them. However, they always used to have proper dimensions. Why that would suddenly not be true is a mystery. Furthermore, "making it any size" is an offer to all of the people out there now creating custom whatzits. I'm sure that Electron knows and sells the stock original size rear window. They did back in the 1970s-80s.

Again, if all else fails, Warren, Ohio can't be too far away. If there is some critical question/issue about 1955 Caribbean convertible backlight rear window, why not get it direct from the dead original, low-miles Howard Hughes Caribbean right there in the museum? No guessing, no consensus needed. No he-said-she-said, might-be-this-could-be-that stuff. A dead original, low-mileage, un-restored, un-molested top! Right there where it can't go anywhere...

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