Pretty neat/unusual car - Appears to be a factory 350 Hi-Comp. engine & has factory gauges & disk brakes.
If one was to paint the car, why not do it correctly? It was a PAINTED roof car, not a vinyl top car... ughhhhhh
It says "two tone paint" on the invoice but I thought that was a more expensive option - I could wrong but the price looks more in line w/a vinyl top. Would be nice to see a trim tag pic.
I always thought painted top would be less money because of the labor involved in installing a vinyl top. It may be a wash because more time required to smooth the sheet metal joints. They should have left the top painted imo. Nice looking car, though. I'd probably change the color.
Well I was certainly wrong there. I thought opposite - Maybe at one point I correcrly knew this, but I guess becuse of the masking, seemingly having to run it through the paint shop 2x, plus the cost of paint vs . vinyl material and the relative # of cars that rec'd each option I thought paint would be more. Sure is a shame that so many of these cars came with vinyl & were ruined as a result when the painted top was less expensive.
I always heard that the reason all Superbirds had vinyl tops was because it was cheaper to put a vinyl top on them than it was to finish the roof to the quality needed to paint it.