Ford Mustang Retractable Top - Didn't quite work out
Even someone who spends several hours a day looking at old cars always discovers something new. Like this Ford Mustang with a folding hardtop instead of a folding top. Of course, it never came from the factory like this. Instead, the company "Retractables Unlimited" from Sun City in Arizona offered such a conversion kit in the 1990s.
Initially, the steel roof of a coupé was replaced by a two-part GRP copy, which was covered with artificial leather on the outside but had the unclad charm of a rain barrel on the inside. Different in material but identical in dimensions, the replacement roof did not fit into the Mustang trunk despite being split - at least not as long as it had the standard lid.
So here, too, a replacement was made from fiberglass, which made every effort to blend in reasonably harmoniously with the body line, but still failed miserably. The aesthetic gain over the regular convertible is therefore small. Nevertheless, the design does not require complicated linkages, electric motors or hydraulic lines and should therefore be very reliable.
