V8yunkie

Found this link on the web... ww.convertibletopguys.com

Does anybody have good or bad experience with their products and services?

I am thinking about the Stayfast canvas...

They also supply a manual with their kits - does it help?

Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Thanks and regards from Germany,
Thomas

ImBatman

I need to do this to and have not decided to tackle it myself or not. Here is a bump for you. Hopefully we can get some feedback.


Wade

71rdster

Buy your top from forum supporting vendor Al Knoch. Top quality, reasonable price, they even sell the video on how to install the top.

68/70Vette

I'll second that. I bought their DVD and watched how they removed and installed a new top. Also, Al Knoch made a point several times referencing the quality of their top. For example, the seams of his top are "electrosealed" instead of being sewn. The old top he was removing was sewn and theirs a problem at the front of the top of water leaking in the sewn tops and rusting the underlying metal. I was impressed that when Al installed his new top, the fit was excellent. He fastened the front of the top with the header pulled a little back from the front of the car, and installed the rear part with the top mechansim a little up in the air. He then latched the front to the windhield top and snapped the rear pins into the lid top and at that point with no adjustments, the top was tight and very smooth. What few wrinkles were there were small and he smoothed them out with a hot air gun. I can't remember, but the DVD cost something like $25.

So far, Im planning on doing the top install myself.

V8yunkie

Well, I know about the good quality reputation of Al Knoch - already have their seat covers in my car. And of course I would pay the little extra to obtain the best quality available.

BUT... it seems that they do not care too much about overseas orders: I have contacted them twice via e-mail and initially via their online-from. NO REPLY AT ALL... very dissapointing! And on of my vendors here in Germany confirmed that working together with them is very unreliable with sometimes really unacceptable delivery times. So he finally gave up.

Reason why I am interested in www.convertibletopguys.com is that they offer Stayfast Canvas - I have asked Al Knoch about this, too BTW (somebody here in the forum stated that Al Knoch also offers those - but nothing on their website I could find).

Maybe this post will wake'em up at Al's...

theandies

I bought Al Knocks stayfast top and installed it myself. Top quality. In all I had less than $500 in it including all new weatherstripping. I hope Al Knock gets back to you because his stuff can't be beat.
Al Knock stay fast cloth top installed by yours truly:

brdd

I bought my top and weatherstripping, etc. on ebay. Everything fit and went together okay. I rented the video from Corvette Central and watched it three times. Then I worked slowly, a little each day for three or four afternoons. It came out pretty good for someone who didn't know what they were doing..........

The only thing I would change if I had it to do over would be the tack strips. Mine came with the paper (cardboard) type strips. I think I would have preferred the neoprene strips instead.

ImBatman

You installed that!!!! Dude it looks AWESOME! You did a great job!!.. Did you get your weather stripping from Al Knock as well? Less than $500 is great! I think it was going to be close to a $1000 here to have it done.

Wade