1969 chevelle ss convertible top.......

[AC Norton]

.....would any of our members have knowledge of a resin convertible top made for the AMT 1969 chevelle ss kit....thanks in advance.....the ace.......

[Rob Hall]

.....would any of our members have knowledge of a resin convertible top made for the AMT 1969 chevelle ss kit....thanks in advance.....the ace.......

Missing Link resin makes a convertible uptop for the '72 Cutlass that should work.

[AC Norton]

thanks for that, Robert.....the ace...

[Snake45]

There used to be an outfit called R&R Vacuumcraft that made a lot of vac-formed up-tops. I wonder if someone picked up their product line.

[kevin l]

Guys my top came from revell so it probably wont fit, r&r vacu craft became r&r resin, ray died a few years back & he stopped vacu forming when he started casting

[Toner283]

Try to find the Revell 72 cutlass supreme kit. Not the hurst/olds version. It has an up top that is basically a direct fit for the 69 SS convertible. the hurst/olds version of the kit does not have the up top in it. The box art for the cutlass supreme as a black and burgundy car on it. I read that Revell is supposed to be reissuing the 72 olds kit 3rd quarter 2015. I am not sure if that one will have the up top or not.

Check out this link. Lots of great info.

Edited August 15, 2015 by Toner283
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[MrObsessive]

Missing Link resin makes a convertible uptop for the '72 Cutlass that should work.

I have the resin one from Missing Link and it's too big for the 1/25 '69 Chevelle. 

The one from the '72 Cutlass would be a better bet......might have to do some tweaking with it to make it look correct though.

[MrObsessive]

Let me make a correction about the uptop for the '69 Chevelle. I'm not really sure that the one I got came from Missing Link------I may have got it from Time Machine Resins. Here's some pics I have of how it fits on an older issue '69 Chevelle Convertible.

Here's a pic of a 1:1 off the 'net of how that top should look in relation to the body......................

This is on my "someday" pile. As you can see the top is too long for the Chevelle body. If the top did indeed come from the '72 Cutlass, either the Chevelle is not quite 1/25, or the Cutlass is a bit larger than 1/25 as in 1:1 these were basically the same car built on the same platform.

My apologies as I'm not quite sure where this resin top originates from. I do happen to have the '72 Cutlass uptop, and if I can find the kit and dig it out, I'll see if I can do a comparo and try the top on this body.

[Rob Hall]

That looks like a 1/24th scale top sitting on a 1/25th scale body..like a Danbury Mint uptop (they did a '68-72 GM convertible w/ an uptop IIRC). 

[Snake45]

Let me make a correction about the uptop for the '69 Chevelle. I'm not really sure that the one I got came from Missing Link------I may have got it from Time Machine Resins. Here's some pics I have of how it fits on an older issue '69 Chevelle Convertible.

Here's a pic of a 1:1 off the 'net of how that top should look in relation to the body......................

This is on my "someday" pile. As you can see the top is too long for the Chevelle body. If the top did indeed come from the '72 Cutlass, either the Chevelle is not quite 1/25, or the Cutlass is a bit larger than 1/25 as in 1:1 these were basically the same car built on the same platform.

My apologies as I'm not quite sure where this resin top originates from. I do happen to have the '72 Cutlass uptop, and if I can find the kit and dig it out, I'll see if I can do a comparo and try the top on this body.

That pic makes you wonder why GM didn't build a "formal roof" version of their '68-'70 A-bodies. They might have been pretty cool.

[kevin l]

Maybe i can clear this up, my top (missing link) is a COPY of the revell 1972 cutlass up top, 

thanks

Kevin

[Rodent]

That pic makes you wonder why GM didn't build a "formal roof" version of their '68-'70 A-bodies. They might have been pretty cool.

The Cutlass Supreme was a "sort-of" formal roof. Much squarer than the Cutlass S.

[Snake45]

The Cutlass Supreme was a "sort-of" formal roof. Much squarer than the Cutlass S.

Yes, I know, but that didn't appear till '71, did it? I'm pretty sure those weren't available in '68 and '69. And I don't recall any other GM division ever did it.

[Rodent]

They were available all three years of the 70-72 bodystyle. Yes, it was an Olds-only thing.

[W-31]

This is correct.