Here you go for your viewing pleasure is a nice looking Gray and Black 2 tone original looking Non AC with the the silver interior Camaro that I drove across the block at the 2023 Scottsdale Auction last night and hammered @ $98k ….. ?
You can pick it apart but IMHO it is telling that these cars...
Update: The Cars and Concepts T-Top plastic "reproduction part" for trim is listed again.
Item Description: Cars and Concepts T Top Trim 4 Corner Pieces (77-81 Camaro Trans Am) C&C
ebay Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/385328810963
Seller: https://www.ebay.com/usr/huiz33
Please send some pics and we can work this out. That many pounds of books will likely need to go truck freight in a shipping crate. I don’t have a dock but have things like this sent to me via UPS truck with a drop gate so they can push it with a pallet jack. You might want to check around...
Posting public here cuz I want to encourage others on here that books have value.
I'm interested and passionate about collecting and reading automotive books.
Especially anything Camaro related for 1st and 2nd gens.
The best NEW thing about these old books - not having to listen to corny tag...
Took me a bit but I found this link that shows how to make the seals.
https://fbodywarehouse.com/restoration/Cars_and_concepts_t_tops/CNC%20Directions.pdf
The Fbody site has a lot of information and part for sale for our cars.
They pop up on eBay some times. After 10 years of looking I found a replacement set a couple of years ago locally on Craig’s list. For a while the CnC tops were worth more than the project car when for sale.
Good luck with your hunt
No sorry the tops are not for sale.
I do not have a contact for the guy on eBay selling plastic kits - last listing of them that I saw in my eBay search was June of 2021.
My Cars n Concepts tops are original to my 79 and have lasted for 10's of thousands of miles, 4 kids, 2 paint jobs and a complete restoration.
I do have an extra set that I found locally - these tops are very heavy and IMHO hard if not impossible to ship.
I do see them from time to time on...
Shiftworks sells direct and on Summit.
The link here is the conversion kit for the original shifter.
I have used one of these kits and they work great and provided me support.
https://shiftworks.com/collections/conversion-kits/products/1973-78-camaro-factory-shifter-conversion-kit
I have change my mind to LIKE on vinyl tops. If you do remove it the metal trim around the back window for a vinyl top for me was harder to come by. Good used sets of trim go for $ so be careful removing and storing it.
Have you tried a slim jim tool?
Tool is used to lift or push on the bar inside the door to unlock it.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube showing how to do this - or call your AAA or a locksmith.
I think you left out a very important part in your drawing, fault isolation.
(fuses, breakers, fusible links, wire and terminal blocks etc)
I openly admit many of these are common sense ...but I have re-learned many of these the hard way.
Keep it simple. Simplicity is genius and lots of hard...
Yes numbers matching matters and as we all know $ to a collector.
If your not a collector then it might still mean something like not having to listen to a goofball say .... “but it’s not numbers matching“
If it’s old not rare or low mileage and you want to drive it.
Save the original hard...
Saw you were doing an LT4 and said something couple posts ago about Holly LT swap parts.
I saw online recently an announcement via Hagerty that Holley is starting to sell and talk about them.
Just in case you have not seen this - Thought this might help you some with dims and pics...