Canopy Tops

aerodynamic · Post by **aerodynamic** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:44 pm

Well, for what it's worth, it's hot as hell in that car here in Florida. I don't drive it much this time of year for that reason. Some day I'll get the A/C back in it. Thx for compliments by the way.

Serious Satellite · Post by **Serious Satellite** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:49 am

aerodynamic wrote:Does this look slow?

My Satty project had a halo vinyl top like that, but I had issues with rust on the passenger side pillars. Scrapped the vinyl top, removed the rear window--glad I did, it was deeper than I expected--and now I'm off to the junk yard to take a sawz-all to that scrap roadrunner I found. A little snip here , a little snip there and then a good weld, and it should be as good as new.

And no, I don't think your car looks slow with a halo top. ..no one's ever said that about a 73 Charger with the halo. ..

P.S. (do you have any issues with your vinyl and rust"?)

Smellslike1974 · Post by **Smellslike1974** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:01 pm

Serious Satellite wrote:
aerodynamic wrote:Does this look slow?
My Satty project had a halo vinyl top like that, but I had issues with rust on the passenger side pillars. Scrapped the vinyl top, removed the rear window--glad I did, it was deeper than I expected--and now I'm off to the junk yard to take a sawz-all to that scrap roadrunner I found. A little snip here , a little snip there and then a good weld, and it should be as good as new.

And no, I don't think your car looks slow with a halo top. ..no one's ever said that about a 73 Charger with the halo. ..

P.S. (do you have any issues with your vinyl and rust"?)

His car doesn't have a Halo/canopy vynal top.His goes all the way back.

Serious Satellite · Post by **Serious Satellite** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:53 pm

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/ima ... lite_9.jpg

That's what I said, he's got a halo. . .

Smellslike1974 · Post by **Smellslike1974** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:26 pm

Serious Satellite wrote:http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/ima ... lite_9.jpg

That's what I said, he's got a halo. . .

Somethings weird.if halo and canopy Isn't the same thing...Why does it say it in my decodings!

Serious Satellite · Post by **Serious Satellite** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:51 pm

Smellslike1974 wrote:
Serious Satellite wrote:http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/ima ... lite_9.jpg

That's what I said, he's got a halo. . .

Somethings weird.if halo and canopy Isn't the same thing...Why does it say it in my decodings!

If you go to Year One, they'll list two different types of vinyl roofs for the 70's Mopar B Body: Canopy and Halo. So I'm not sure what's going on with your decoding. . .

my Satty had a halo, now it's a lean mean non running evil machine going au natural as far as vinyl is concerned. .

but my Roadrunner had a canopy. .. which was great in the summer and I actually prefer the canopy top over the halo. .

Smellslike1974 · Post by **Smellslike1974** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:03 pm

I have many many decodings,and i have two that say Halo roof,and i remember reading somewheres,an article on sundances where they said halo.i thought they where the same roof style,because halo(ring) would make sebse seeing its not a full vynal top just a ring around the top of the roof,but i guess not

landon1 · Post by **landon1** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:42 pm

couldn't both tops on a 73-4 be considered "halo" cuz they don't come all the way to the windows like the 71-2s do they? they have their own perimeter

Serious Satellite · Post by **Serious Satellite** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:36 pm

A full vinyl top was only offered on the 4 door satty. . .

Smellslike1974 · Post by **Smellslike1974** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:40 pm

landon1 wrote:couldn't both tops on a 73-4 be considered "halo" cuz they don't come all the way to the windows like the 71-2s do they? they have their own perimeter

The "halo" does go all the way back,the canopy stops at the edge of the drip moldings(well mine stopped shorter than that,but im 99% sure its was the work of previous owners)

Serious Satellite · Post by **Serious Satellite** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:00 am

The Year one catalog has two different styles of canopy tops available, one that goes completely down the front pillars and meets at the drip rails, another that doesn't go down the front pillars and only goes to the bright molding, sort of a haloed canopy.

It's not on their website, but it definitely is in the Year One Catalog for 1973/1974. Gotta remember, even hamtrack states:

If you were able to order your car new at your local dealership back when our cars were new, your ever-friendly salesman likely would have sat down with you and paged through one of these books with you. They typically show some of the major options and option groups available for each model line along with some photos. They were not meant to be a "complete" list of options, and since they were printed just as the new model year began these books do contain some errors at times.
Like just about everything here at HH, this section will be a work in progress and other data books will be added as time goes on.

That's one of the reasons why I aquiesced on the electric antennae, it's not gonna be easy to find documentation, but my 1973 that was a repo when I bought it in 1975, had an electric antennae.

Smellslike1974 · Post by **Smellslike1974** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:33 am

Hmm.Mine is the canopy with the pillars vynald.