Hi!

I bought Minnie two years ago, yesterday, and it was in boxes of parts.

My next project is to replace the roof on my 27 Coupe.

It appears that the roof wood is a lamination of two layers, and I can figure that out.

I got a roof replacement kit from Cartouche, and it does not discuss the inner liner, at all. The roof rim has a ledge, and I was thinking that you would tack the inner liner to that from the top, and then attach the cross ribs.

How do you keep the inner liner from sagging?

I was thinking that I could run thread in a loop through the liner and tie it around the cross ribs at regular intervals, but I would expect this would produce puckers.

A second idea is to bond a thin foam sheet to the top side to stiffen it a bit.

My wife suggested bonding the liner to a flat sheet of paneling.

What is the right way to do this? (HELP).

Thanks.

Dennis.

Dennis, are you referring to the headliner by saying inner liner? I have just ordered fabric from Mac's to do mine. We did the roof exterior of our 27 Fordor before I got on the Forum and found that the headliner should go in first. I believe the headliner has one seam that allows you to tack it up, but not sure of exact location, so some imformation would help both of us.

Yes, I am speaking of the headliner.

I'll have to look at mine to see if it has a seam or not. That would require that at least one of the cross ribs would need to be located in a specific place.

I have looked and looked and only found one picture of a Fordor headliner. Can't recall having seen a Coupe headliner at all.

The headliner attaches to the bows and the front and back,after the upholstery is installed, then the sheet goes on the top of the bows, the roof will look better if chicken wire is stretched and tacked to the top of the bows,then the sheet ,padding and finally the vinyl top.,
Rick

Thanks, Rick.

This will help a lot. So the bows are visible in the cab?

Dennis.

Dennis,

Take a look at this,

http://www.cimorelli.com/projects/new_roof/newcouperoof.html

Is of an earlier coupe style, but same drill.

Tony has a lot of online journals that follow his projects as he does them. Browsing what he does can be mighty informative.

Oh, yes! Dagunny has helped me again. THANKS!!!