True, but if I was an Installer, a flat wagon roof is much easier to deal with than a curvy aero Cougar roof.
Malibu wagon astroroof?
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True, but if I was an Installer, a flat wagon roof is much easier to deal with than a curvy aero Cougar roof.
I have a factory Astroroof in my Cutlass. I've never seen one in a wagon ever, but those photos definetly look like an astroroof. I wonder if someone got ahold of a factory unit and added it later on.
I have seen cars that people say no, not factory paper says so. Especially if it was a proving grounds car or a GM executives car anything goes.
That is a nifty sheet. I've not seen the roof referred to as code CA1 . Must have been earlier nomenclature. I'm more familiar with the mid eighties gbody codes.
Definitely a cool addition even if it isn't factory.
This may help to determine where it was installed...found it on another forum and also found out the option for the astroroof was more expensive than the t-top option
ASC, the company that produced the GNXs also made the original astroroofs. The most popular AFTERMARKET astroroof you will see is also made by ASC, but was installed at the dealer.The controll button on the dealer installed ASC astroroofs will be black plastic and they will NOT have the removable plastic plug option to insert the auxiliary crank tool.
The dealer installed ASC astroroofs will be approximately two inches shorter in width than the factory-installed astroroof. The other difference is the color of the glass. The factory astroroof has a silver tint to the glass.The dealer- installed ASC version will NOT have this silver tint to the glass.Both ASC versions do include a matching cloth slider that matches the headliner inside the car.
ASC, the company that produced the GNXs also made the original astroroofs. The most popular AFTERMARKET astroroof you will see is also made by ASC, but was installed at the dealer.The controll button on the dealer installed ASC astroroofs will be black plastic and they will NOT have the removable plastic plug option to insert the auxiliary crank tool.
The dealer installed ASC astroroofs will be approximately two inches shorter in width than the factory-installed astroroof. The other difference is the color of the glass. The factory astroroof has a silver tint to the glass.The dealer- installed ASC version will NOT have this silver tint to the glass.Both ASC versions do include a matching cloth slider that matches the headliner inside the car.
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Yes Clutch that is what mine looks like.
TexasT i looked in the glove box but there weren't any labels in there.
The control switch in mine is chrome. The astroroof in mine couldn't be any wider because it's already the width of the roof of the car. I just wanted to see if it could have been offered in this car. A couple people that I've talked to have said that they wouldn't have put the "sun roof" (as they called it) in a station wagon but I've never been sure. I saw some old posts and pics on here about the astroroof and noticed that it looked just like what was in my car. I still don't know if it's factory or not but I think I'm going to have to keep it in the car.
I'm no expert on sun/moonroofs, but the astroroof as I understand it is a later glass roof panel, whereas the 78 to ?? cars got sliding steel roofs. As far as I can tell, the Malibu series never got the glass roof,and there was no sunroof option for 1981.
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