Removable hard top for an automotive vehicle and method of makin

Details Removable hard top for an automotive vehicle and method of makin Removable hard top for an automotive vehicle and method of makin

1999-12-21

2000-10-24

Pape, Joseph D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Standing

296103, 296121, 296224, B62D 2506

Patent

active

061355356

ABSTRACT:
A removable hardtop including inner and outer roof panels made of molded fiber reinforced sheet molding compound. An integral roll bar is formed in the inner roof panel. A hold down clamp and bracket having horizontal, vertical and transverse flanges mounted on a horizontal edge, vertical surface and transverse surface of a B pillar of a vehicle. A method of molding the inner and outer roof panels and assembling component parts to the inner and outer roof panels is also disclosed.

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