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Originally Posted by kingbuzzo

I'm eye-balling one of the solid one-piece types for my T/A - do they make those for the Lemans or only the factory bow-type?

I am converting my 71 bird to a 1-piece headliner, will post on my build thread and the headliner thread on progress, should be starting that in a week or two.

No, no there's not an 'out-of-box' 1 -piece solution for the A bodies, wish there was! I've seen custom work to do this, but nothing of a solution that one can purchase. Or not that I've found.

You could do your own, grab a piece of board stock, crease, roll, trim, mock it up along the way, but that's not an easy process. Board stock and/or aluminum sheet is difficult to package and ship, expensive too. The only 'affordable' strategy to provide any type of 'kit' would be to do it in plastic, where you can roll it and ship it. But that requires a mold.

Then, after that, because the side moldings are unique to the one-piece, you would have to make those too. The regular 'window lace' channel stuff just won't work to hold a 1-piece up. It's just a very stiff, thin channel of reinforced vinyl.

The big 3 A-bodies, even if you focus on the 68-72 models, vary enough from make to make, you would have to do multiple offerings. There's no one-fits-all approach. Further complicating any mass-prod offering.

I would def love to see someone engineer that out and make it work. Even of someone tried, it would have to be focused on the MOST popular model of A-body, I.E., Chevelle. And if that did take off, it would be years later for other offerings to be released.

Nope, if you want a 1-piece, you're stuck fabricating it, plain and simple.

I know Kindig has done it in his shop though...multiple times...


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