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Historically, inbuilts were a metal sunroof panel painted to match the vehicle roof, but now most are glass-panel systems with sliding sunshades (typically referred to as moonroofs). One of the first examples was the 1960 Ford Thunderbird. Folding sunroofs (often called rag-tops or cabrio coach) are a European tradition.
1953 Ford Motor Company spent an estimated US$2 million (US$22,776,119 in 2023 dollars [16]) to engineer a Continental Mark II with a servo-operated retractable roof. The concept was rejected for cost and marketing reasons. [5] Engineering work was used by Ford for the retractable mechanism in their 1957 through 1959 flagship Ford Fairlane 500 ...
Ford's three mid-1950s transparent top cars are: 1) 1954 Ford Crestline Skyliner. Two-door pillarless hardtop with a transparent top. Price was $2,164 with the standard Ford I-block 6-cyl 223-cid 115-hp A-code engine and Conventional Drive 3-speed manual transmission. 1954 Crestline Skyliner production was only 13,344.
The company was founded by Heinz Prechter in Los Angeles, California as the American Sunroof Company in 1965. In 2004, the aftermarket sunroof business was sold to Inalfa, and the company changed its name from American Sunroof Company to American Specialty Cars, with a "new emphasis on handling design, engineering and manufacturing of low-volume niche vehicles".
The metal-framed "Carson top" was a popular addition for the 1930s Ford convertibles or roadsters because it turned these models into an almost instant hardtop. [41] The design mimicked a convertible top, but lacking the bulky folding mechanisms enabled the removable hardtop to have a much lower and more rakish profile.
The thirteenth-generation Ford F-Series is a range of pickup trucks produced by Ford. Introduced for the 2015 model year, this generation of the F-Series is the first aluminum-intensive vehicle produced on a large scale by an American vehicle manufacturer.