Is this for real?

[34fordy]

Wonder what it was made of!

 

[petehoovie]

Wonder what it was made of!

 

[mcgarrett]

If it is real, I would assume it was made from Plexiglas, the same material used to make the canopies for the P51 Mustang and other US fighter planes late in WW2.

 

[J Franklin]

Bet it got HOT in the sun!

 

[nelsb01]

Yes they were made as an after market item.
I do not know who made them, but a gentleman named Barrett MacGregor owned one. I believe that he lived in northern Wisconsin or the UP of Michigan.
I saw the car once in a parade that I stumbled across in Iron Mountain MI back in 1979. I was on my way to the Eastern National Meet in Dearborn MI and took the long way around.
I also think that there was a story about the plastic top in the V-8 TIMES at one time.
Check out this issue of the V-8 TIMES

What!the???!Plexiglas!Bubble!Top!! 19-MAY/JUN-69

1982 May/June issue page 69

 

[ford38v8]

Bet it got HOT in the sun!

Did they get hot? You must see that only one is wearing sun glasses, the other three are squinting…

 

[Fordors]

Lorin Sorensen’s Ford Life Magazine had a brief feature on the plexiglass top on page 29 of the Jul/Aug 1972 issue.

 

[rockfla]

IF memory serves me correct, Dave Graham in California had one of these tops still in its create?

 

[farmertom]

Bet it got HOT in the sun!

like a greenhouse in the desert. Tom.

 

[aussie merc]

thats different wouldnt take long to feel like a turkey at Christmas [on the inside looking out ]defiantly not for down here

 

[Lanny]

aussie merc... Good Answer,,, Now pass the gravy




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[ford38v8]

If I ran a car wash and they drove up, I'd quick pen a sign "We don't do windows"