Projects “A” Rare Bird

Fellow HAMBers! It would seem to me that I have a bit of a rare bird on my hands. I just bought a 1930 model A, and after doing some digging, this car appears to have a “special coupe” roof on it. Is this possible for a factory 1930 coupe to have a “special coupe” or “leather back” roof?

the body and roof appear unmolested and the car still has its interior in it.

P. S. I’ll upload pictures soon

 

Sport Coupe, I believe it's called. Not sure how many were built, but they do exist.

 

Figured out some photos!

 

From what I can tell, it’s not a sport coupe the roof is very different and it is a 5 window coupe

 

It is a Standard Coupe that had the top replaced sometime in the past, upholsterer got creative.

 

Yep, didn't know it was a 5 window. Interesting.

 

Think the Special Coupes were 28 & 29.

 

The trim on the front and back of the roof at either end of the vinyl looks incredibly factory. It’s specifically the trim across other back of the roof that meets up with the drip edge that I haven’t seen on other A’s with the smaller vinyl roof panel

 

Looks more like incredibly back-yard to me . In the other pic the rear window looks pretty big. Can you see from the inside if it,s still all original body seams and tack-strip indentation with the little tack holes ? Are the two seams both sides of the window on the outside still there or filled ? I can,t really see the nice curved flow of a coupe roof under your tack-strip. Last pic is yours, enlarged for readers.

 

Here is the back of the car. It still has interior in it, but either way isnt the special coupe roof a different construction than the standard coupes?

 

Yeah, that’s not how Ford built it. Somebody did that to it later.

 

Yes:

 

@Joe Blow is that a standard or special coupe? And do you have a photo of what the other side of this****embled piece looks like?

 

It's a '28 Special Coupe from @30tudor 's post in this thread:
The other side is the pic below it.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1928-ford-model-a.1086996/

 

That piece of trim looks like what was used when the dealership I worked at (late 60's/early 70's) added vinyl tops to cars. The guy who did them had a couple of plywood jigs he used to shape the sticks of trim. So, for $29.00 in materials and the guys time they were charging factory prices for for vinyl tops.

 

Standard coupes look just fine without all that extra vinyl. I installed mine in 1969, looked and worked just fine, used butyl rubber to ensure it was water tight.