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Originally Posted by airedale
I knew I was going to buy my 380 SL the moment I looked at it and the salesman demonstrated the manual top. The power top on my 86 Mustang Convertible I waited for to fail every time I used it. No help I know but I love a well engineered manual top.
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It IS possible to build a well-engineered, inexpensive, and dead reliable automatic top. A 90's Chrysler Lebaron's top has heated glass(!), a headliner, and did not give my ex a single spec of mechanical trouble in the 10 years she owned it, and she used it a lot. The vinyl did eventually fall apart in the hot Atlanta sun, but it was inexpensive to replace.