Guest Agustín de Pazos Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Good afternoon, I'll present myself. My name is Agustín, I'm from Uruguay. For my 19th birthday I bought a Graham 1937 supercharger. The restoration process is going great, but when I removed the roof's upholstery I saw that the car has a structure in the roof like if it used to have a sunroof. When I inspected the roof from the outside, it can be seen a square mark in the roof that matches the structure from the inside. My question is, is it possible that this car model came with a factory sunroof or is it a custom-made thing by the previous owner? In this maquette, a black square can be seen in the roof, like if it has a ragtop. This square matches exactly the mark in my car. Thank you very much for your answers. If you need photos for some research, I can post some. Agustín. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agustín de Pazos Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I forgot to post the picture, my bad. They are called "Graham Paige Brooklin", which is a brand to up to scale maquettes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Agustín, could you post some pictures of the hole in your framing that you are talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozstatman Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 G'day Augustin, Referring to the photo of the model of the Graham, the fabric roof insert is not a sunroof. Most/many cars of that era had a fabric insert in the roof because of the technology available. It was only about that time that steel pressings of roofs were being formed "complete". Some manufacturers taking up this technology before others but probably all had full metal roofs by 1940. If I'm wrong someone will be sure to set me straight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 If I'm not mistaken, the insert is steel rather than fabric on a 1937 Graham. Other than that it is exactly as Ozstatman says. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozstatman Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 See, told you someone would put me straight! Thanks Bloo, learned something there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glassesguy Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Steel insert as told to me by my 95 year old father in law who worked on them in his father's Graham Paige dealership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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