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#YOUVE GOT TO SEE IT TO BELEIVE IT AT FLAMINGO GRILL HOW TO#
The roadster top has the "right" look, but how to get it to work with a non-roadster windshield frame and doors with roll-up glass? Barry figured it out and came away with a cabrio' that has the award-winning looks of a roadster but with the inherent creature comforts found in a cabriolet.
Okay, we now have a roadster-looking windshield, good, cabrio' doors with roll-up glass, better, and what to do about a top.In all fairness the cabrio' top in the world of street rodding leaves something to be desired.
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The doors are still cabrio' but now with real roll-up windows cut to match the angle on the windshield posts. Then he proceeded to lay the windshield posts back, again laid back posts have been done before but.on a cabriolet! From here, the cabriolet began to take on the much more desirable looks of a "distinctive" roadster. It looks like he or someone did a great job reworking the windshield angle, top, and windows, which is the one area I don't like the looks of on an original-styled '32 cabriolet as a fenderless highboy."Ī 2-inch top chop is standard Lobeck rodding fare. But I haven't seen any projects on one, nor any '32 cabriolet that really turns my crank-until I saw a tiny picture of Barry Lobeck's '32 cabriolet last month. So, I've finally come to realize the answer to my dilemma is, I gotta have it all, and the closest thing I can come up with is a '32 cabriolet. But one thing has nagged at me for a long time: top or no top? The little red guy on my left shoulder says 'go ahead, go for the '32 roadster with a big-block that you've always wanted.' But the little white guy on the other shoulder says, 'you're getting older and you'll be driving alone if you don't have a weather-proof coupe.' You know.wind, hair, rain, cold = no wife as copilot. "I've been reading your magazine for years and have a nice hefty pile in my workshop with many corners tabbed for the ideas I hope to put to good use soon in building a '32 highboy. We have include the letter so you can see just how we felt when it came time to name Lobeck's cabriolet the STREET RODDER Street Rod of the Year. Paul, Minnesota, who emailed the magazine after seeing a photo of the cabriolet as one of the Top Ten recipients at the Goodguys Charlotte event. However, we believe it was very well expressed by one of SRM's audience, Jerry Canfield of N.
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