1936ford64
Senior Member
Common sense will tell you the top was welded in after the body was assembled. The 1/4 panels were stamped as one piece with part of the roof. To stamp the roof and both 1/4 panels in one die as one piece , they would still be working on the tooling for the first one. If they can stamp a 32 Ford 1/4 in one piece, the can stamp anything. It was not practical to have a steel roof on low prodduction vehicles. Where the production numbers increase, the hand labor reduces and the tooling increases. It has always been that way.If they were going to put a solid top on the 32 Ford , or any other car they would have the weld seam in the drain rail area and the top would have a belly in it. I made steel stampings for 50 years and I have a rough idea how the process works and so do most other people Thank you Don Babb
