History Carson-Hauser & Hall top Customs - Lets see them.

Ray Vega's 38 Ford tub with a Black Carson

 

Looked so much better as originally built.

Mick

 

I think Chuck DeWitt's 50 Ford has the perfect Carson style top. The problem with almost all contemporary padded tops is they just set the rear window in the padding, I feel the rear window needs to be zipped in like an original folding top. If you look closely at Chuck's car you will see this. I believe all original Carson tops had this feature.

Mick

 

What was this car originally?

 

1955-1956 Packard!

 

Packard 1955, built in Finland

 

You are sure right about that. The original version is one of my all-time favorites. I give the present owner a lot of credit for saving the car from the junkyard & then keeping it for decades. However, I sure wish he would have just restored it to how it was originally built.

 

where they started, 1941, from Custom Car Chronicle.

 

Original Carson Top Shop on Vermont in L.A. Ca.

 

Irontrap Garage recently posted an hour long discussion with Dave Martinez that includes padded tops.

 

Don’t know if it qualifies, but it’s removable.

 

Taken in L.A. area around 1950.

 

I love these earlier builds.

 

Can't find a picture of the Ken Gross 32 roadster. It had a bitchin Carson style top you don't often see on a 32 roadster.

 

Bob Bland's Mercury.

 

This one is not a Carson top, it is a padded removable top of a different "Modern Design". As is the one on the blue car above.

 

Modern day Carson done right.

 

The top is removable, I was referring to the fact it was not a genuine Carson top

 

My dads 40 Chev… circa 1950

 

This car looks to be a Pontiac with a Buick front end, doesn't look anything like a Merc