Re: Why a fabric roof?
From what I can recall reading (in other words, the accuracy is not guaranteed) there were no stamping presses capable of making a car body with integral complete roof until Budd. I suppose Ford and others could have formed a separate roof center section and welded it in place but that would have added other manufacturing steps. I’m guessing if Ford thought it would lower the cost of production it would have been tried.
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David in San Antonio
1930 ('31?) Deluxe "Wretched Roadster"
Restored 1957
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