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Originally Posted by alkack27
is anyone selling or know where i can get a top for my 1973 k5 ??????
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Maybe if we knew where you are would help. Shipping a 275lb hard top is not cheap.
I may have one in a couple months. Depends on what is done with a truck that I have part ownership in that we are stripping. Body wise its not really bad and infact when it was offered to me I wish I had looked at it. It is in better conditiosn then the description I was given. I let it go to another friend that wanted the drivetrain with the understanding I could have any good body parts I wanted. He wants the runnger for a Jeep camando.
Well I have been part owner of this thing for about 2 years and I have never seen it till 2 weeks ago. Somebody did some repair work on the truck and cleaned it up with a minor restore. They replaced the rockers but they removed the rocker boxes.
I am thinking of taking it whole and making a street rod or Pre runner out of it but I have to figure out what to do about the missing rocker boxes.
A little lesson on these tops as you are looking for them. There is two variations. You don't want a 73 you want a mid 74-75. In 73 they had a butted seam version. They broke at the seams often. To fix this they overlapped the seam to get more surface area to bond the top to the sides when they assembled them.
They way to tell them apart is look at the exterior seam where the top meets the sides. The over lap is just that The top will over lap the side by about 3/4 of an inch and leave a lip. The butt seam will be for the most part smooth.