[Don Rogers]

Some of you might remember Dale Sandman on this blog from years ago. Here is a copy of his installation method from years ago. Also my profile image of the weatherstrip installed.

I will assume that your vehicle already has the wooden top bows in
place. If this is so then follow these instructions.

First you will need to go to the hardware store and purchase a length
of chicken wire that is long enough to cover the top opening of you
car. Trim this chicken wire to where it just fits inside the top's
opening. Once trimmed, then use some sort of non metallic tape and tape
all around the outside edge of the chicken wire so it will not ground
to the car body.

If your car still has its original radio antenna
wires, then soldier those in place to the chicken wire at the left
front side. Staple the chicken wire to the wooden top bows and make
sure it lays flat and smooth on the top opening.

Now you will need some napped cotton padding to lay over the chicken
wire. Trim the padding to where it fits just inside the top opening.
Next lay the black top cover material over the top and make sure you
have enough excess material laying over the edges of the top opening.
It is best to lay the black top material flat in the sun for a while to
remove any wrinkles.

Once the top material is laid on the top opening of the car make sure
it is straight. Now what I do is to take four (4) six inch long top
rubber edging pieces and feed them into each corner of the top corners
of the car Make sure you gently stretch the black material so as to not
have any wrinkles.

It is usually best to do this with two people.
Lastly, starting at the back rear of the center of the top of the top
opening of the car, begin feeding in the rubber trim piece. Make sure
you have enough to go around the whole opening of the the car. Slowly
feed it in with a flat edged screw driver. When you get to the corners
then remove the six inch corner piece and continue feeding in the
edging. Continue this process until you have gone all around the top.
You may want to lube the rubber trim with Vaseline to make it easier to
feed in to to trough.

Once the topping is in and is smooth, then simply trim the excess black
covering that is on the outside edge of the rubber trim piece and cut
it off with a good sharp razor.Hope all this made sense to you and it
helps you out. Take care.

Keep V-8ing,
Dale Sandman"