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What Happened to the Roof of this '71 Satellite?

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It's the same on both side.

https://classics.autotrader.com/classic-cars/1971/plymouth/satellite/101088391

roof defect.jpg
 
Perhaps it was a vinyl roof car and someone removed the Plastisol that the factory used to smooth out the roof seam. Painted roofs used lead in this area.
 
Photon440 said:
Perhaps it was a vinyl roof car and someone removed the Plastisol that the factory used to smooth out the roof seam. Painted roofs used lead in this area.
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The roof seam is lower & angles upward from front to back..
 
That's interesting... The 71 I cut the back half off of wasn't like that.....
 
Thats what my 71 vinyl top roof seams looked like after I peeled it back... Not sure what the Q is about...
Mine had factory lead on the ends as well as filler...
 
Pretty sure all 71-74 used the same roof with the same seams.
 
Photon440 said:
Perhaps it was a vinyl roof car and someone removed the Plastisol that the factory used to smooth out the roof seam. Painted roofs used lead in this area.
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Plastisol ? Didn't know the factory used anything but lead.
 
yep- lead on no vinyl roofs, plastic on vinyl roof cars.

IIRC started in 71
 
My 72 Lynch Road SE has plastic with full vinyl.

Maybe started in 72 or was a plant by plant thing.

My 73 no vinyl car has lead.
 
My 1970 Satellite (and others on here on a thread about it) had the Plastisol.
 
In either case, that's the quarter/roof seam. Common repair area. Clean up and fill with a modern product and away you go.
 
what happened to that roof?
the vinyl top was taken off and the roof was just primed over
then it was left out in the elements and the water got in under the plastisol
and now you are looking at the end result...
 
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