1968 Parchment vinyl roof - Exact color?

Cool Manchu · Nov 12, 2014

Hi GT/CS'ers

I plan on replacing my black vinyl roof with the original parchment vinyl roof.

Given that it's called parchment, I am going to assume that it's not exactly white. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Is there a specific color of vinyl that matches it best? Has anyone found an online store that for sure matches it properly?

Does anyone have a good picture of the color that they could share?

franklinair · Nov 12, 2014

It may be called Parchment, they look White to me. NPD lists it as White.

Neil

Cool Manchu · Nov 12, 2014

Thanks! Any chance to get to see more pics of your car makes it worthwhile to start a thread.

So NPD has this to order? I just scoured my mag and looked online, but couldn't find it.

I must be searching the wrong terms.

Cool Manchu · Nov 12, 2014

Okay, spoke too soon (and yes, was using wrong terms)

So I found these two for the 1968:

This one appears more parchment:
https://www.npdlink.com/store/products/vinyl_top_double_40_inch_wide_seam-196313-1.html

While this one appears more white:
https://www.npdlink.com/store/products/vinyl_top_double_40_inch_wide-141638-1.html

And they do have a different catalog number, the first one is VT-50-ES and the second one is VT-50-E

franklinair · Nov 12, 2014

I THOUGHT the only choices in 68 were Black or White vinyl coverings. Perhaps Marty can be of help.

Neil

CougarCJ · Nov 12, 2014

One of my co-workers recently chose to go with a premium vinyl top for his Cougar. If you really want the best, look into the OEM material that can be found at SMS Auto Fabrics. SMS Link

This is the direct link that shows texture front and back compared to what is easily available like in the above links from NPD.
http://www.classiccougarcommunity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19713#p19713

There is a huge difference in quality and cost. SMS should be able to provide the factory 1968 Mustang white/parchment vinyl top color too.

Ruppstang · Nov 13, 2014

franklinair said:
I THOUGHT the only choices in 68 were Black or White vinyl coverings. Perhaps Marty can be of help.

Neil

Neil Ford referred to it as Parchment. A Dearborn buck tag used the abbreviation PARCH on it for the parchment vinyl roof. It is also listed as Parchment on the Marti reports. It was a bit off white, looks better with more colors than pure white.
Marty

Cool Manchu · Nov 13, 2014

CougarCJ said:
One of my co-workers recently chose to go with a premium vinyl top for his Cougar. If you really want the best, look into the OEM material that can be found at SMS Auto Fabrics. SMS Link

This is the direct link that shows texture front and back compared to what is easily available like in the above links from NPD.
http://www.classiccougarcommunity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19713#p19713

There is a huge difference in quality and cost. SMS should be able to provide the factory 1968 Mustang white/parchment vinyl top color too.

Do you happen to know which texture they went with? And the exact color? That site offers so many options...

somethingspecial · Nov 13, 2014

Another good one for the Restorartion Reference section, at least the Vendor info. Thanks Scott.

CougarCJ · Nov 13, 2014

Cool Manchu said:
Do you happen to know which texture they went with? And the exact color? That site offers so many options...

It will have to wait until next week.
I think that the texture is Ford Levant.

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