SE Seams.... It seems I'm not sure what seams I've been seein'....

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RedLine

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OK.  On page 85 of Paul Zazarine's famous book, "Muscle Car Color History, Barracuda and Challenger",  Paul goes into detail about the Special Edition package and the "formal roof styling" called for on the vinyl top.  He describes the smaller backlight (styled by Mack King) and then quotes Carl Cameron as Carl reflects on his Special Edition seam pattern design decisions.  "The location of the seams on the standard vinyl roof run from front to rear," Cameron explained.  "The SE seams ran from the windshield back beside the rear window to the base of the vinyl roof.  This made the top appear lower in profile because you read the seams. It also looked wider from the rear."

Now, we have most of the original top, part of it seen here:



and you see the seams on that top ran through the window and picked back up below.

Now consider this SE:



The Seam is running down the side,  like it was described.

and this one, thats been around for a while:



But you can see it is intersecting the window, as is this one:



Then I saw the one NZ showed... not an SE right?  and it made me wonder.....



It seems the seams can be seen either way.  Does anyone know for certain?  Does anyone have any pics of the official SE seam pattern?
« Last Edit: July 19, 2004 - 10:17:57 PM by RedLine »




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Re: SE Seams.... It seems I'm not sure what seams I've been seein'....
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2004 - 03:32:16 AM »
Unfortunatly my original top was already removed when I bought my car in 79 , min eis like the brown car now but i have always believed it si wrong

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Re: SE Seams.... It seems I'm not sure what seams I've been seein'....
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2004 - 11:53:50 AM »
Very interesting question!!  I will go back and look at some of the pics that I have to see which way is more prevaliant!   ???  ???  ???

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Re: SE Seams.... It seems I'm not sure what seams I've been seein'....
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2004 - 11:07:42 PM »
I was always led to believe 70-71 were wide seam roofs.
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Re: SE Seams.... It seems I'm not sure what seams I've been seein'....
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2004 - 11:21:00 PM »
The 70-71 parts book shows a picture of a 70 SE car that is wide seamed.

OK, Part numbers are the same for 2 door hrdtop and spec 2 door hardtop

According to the listing the only Boar grain top available in 1970 was white.:shocked:
Gator Grain was available in black,green or white
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Re: SE Seams.... It seems I'm not sure what seams I've been seein'....
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2004 - 08:45:34 AM »
Thanks JS27N0B . . .  any chance you can send that pic?