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Finally got to pop the hi top off, beginning to wish I hadn't







Dont let it fool you, there is mostly fibre glass along this edge, covered in rust



A quality installation!



Can you spot the problem with the fridge vent



Well, my medium term project just became long term. At least the gutters themselves are sound

That's a home brew all right! Fixing that will keep you out of mischief. Enjoy.

What was holding the roof on?
The ventilation through the fridge vent looks good though!

Holy moly, almost makes me not want to take mine off. Eeeeek *runs and hides*

Oldiebut goodie wrote:What was holding the roof on?

Gravity, by the look of it...

At what stage do you admit that the shell's scrap?

AdrianC wrote:At what stage do you admit that the shell's scrap?

[braveheart mode] NEVER! [/braveheart mode]

Oldiebut goodie wrote:What was holding the roof on?

A badly applied line of self tapping screws, less than 10% of them long enough to get to any good steel

Ralf85 wrote:That's a home brew all right!

A bad batch of brew I think.

Time to start the search for a new roof skin

Bloody hell, that's amazing!

From the title of your post change "some" to "a long long long "
That looks bad

Well the rat look is in at the moment.....

'tis the season for air con, starting to worry about my roof now, oh what the heck I spend my life worrying anyway

As long as I'm done before I retire

Just need to source a roof, going to use the opportunity to fit a pop top instead

makes what I found under mine look positively virginal

There's been a few great threads here about working on the roof, which are proving really helpful in researching doing the roof swap - so thanks to all that took the effort to do the work and then post up their progress. It's scaring me a lot less than when I initially suspected the roof was buggered

The under structure doesn't seem in bad condition, just the outer skin.

Guess that's what long term cooking / sleeping in a hi-top can do to a body when no anti rust measures are done.

This is going to be a very slow rebuild

Stage one, new skin unpicked and in mighty fine condition.



Currently removing the detritus that used to be called a roof from my van now, windows and tailgate off. Looks like I'll be grafting in the rear section too, 30 years of diabolical bodges have taken their toll