Roof Framing

one more.

I would like to thank everyone who helped me , trying to determine how the Royale roof was constructed .

Bill's roof pictures will help other Royale owners in the future complete their roof correctly .

Mark asked me to post these.

This is the finished product of my Victoria roof . My father who is in his 90’s helped me make this .

We first determined the centre line on the car using the A and B pillars .

Then marked the centres on the metal roof opening at the front and back of the car .

We got a cardboard sheet larger than the opening and traced the metal opening on to it . 

Marking the centre lines and placed the cardboard on a table to work on the layout . Easier on the back .

We scaled Bill Eaton's Coupe's pictures and made contours of the roof and made this wood frame .

I can get the whole wood assembly in the car in one piece except .

The one with the wood header with the green tape on it on the bottom of the picture .

This header is over the front window .

I will have to install the header while it is in the car .

We attached the headers and the bows with 6 inch X 1/4 inch bolts to dowel nuts .

We made our own dowel nuts to secure it together .

Since it was mortise and tenon originally .

I forgot to mention I left one bow out so I could access the top of the car .

When I go to install the roof assembly .

You can see the dowel bolts on the side of the rails and holding the bows to the side rails .

I do not know if the structure is longer that the Victoria or not . I do know the Coupe is different than the Victoria . If you look at the pictures you can see the Victoria is longer . All I had was Bill Eaton's pictures and I had to figure out the chamber and arch myself .