Carbon Fiber targa, Well in look at least Options

[kfish914]

So I have this extra top that I was going to make a poor mans Saratoga top. After coming back to my senses I was going to sand it own and paint it to match. It had already been painted by the PO. I have always like the look of the vinyl sail panels and I thought the paint top may look odd.

I was at a car show this summer and saw a car with the carbon fiber wrapped top and it looked like a good mix of smooth and texture. Here is how it went.

The before


Sanded and Primed


carbon fiber wrap


finished


Even fit well into the groove


Not bad For $25 bucks and a lot of elbow grease. Plus I still have my original top that is still in great shape.

[kfish914]

Thanks everyone.
It was not the true (real) 3M product, but a knock off. It was sold as "real carbon" wrap. The 3M stuff was twice as much and I figured for $20 bucks for the wrap and $5 worth of sand paper, I would do the cheaper stuff so if it didn’t work out I wasn’t out much.
I have to say I like the stuff, you can wrinkle it all up and just apply some heat and they come right out. I wrapped my cell phone cover for practice first. Now that was a b.... to do the corners on it. It turned out pretty good after I really worked it over making several relief cuts to get it to roll over the edges.

I’m going to do the gauge bezel. It needs to be repainted anyways, and since the center part of my center console has seen better days I was going to make a new insert and cover it as well. Keeping the original piece as it is for now and recovering it later with black vinyl. I think this will tie in nicely since the car is black with flares and interior is the Camel (Tan) color.