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Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:46 pm

I'm interested in finding out more about these. The delivery ones to be specific. I've been doing some searches and I've only been able to find a handful.

I've found images of a couple that appear to be Berry T's, a yellow one that appears to be all one piece, and a red one where the top appears to be a separate piece.

Also a couple of different Barris T buggies with C Cab panel delivery tops that are specifically a separate unit.

Were these the only two vendors that made them? Were there very many of them made?

I think they are cool in a different kind of way, and I'd like to find more info about them

Thansk

Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:06 pm

On a Berry, the C-cab was always a separate accesssory, (item # 160). The yellow one was probably bonded in place and filler used to cover the seam.

This picture shows the lines very clearly. You could build a plug right on your buggy with foam, then pull a mold off it, then crank out a few.

Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:22 pm

Cool. Thank you

Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:11 am

Man would I love to have one of those.

My problem is those 2 seater buggies are just too tight for me. In a manx style buggy, I still have to have the seats pushed back against the rear firewall to be comfortable.

Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:02 am

They look really cool on the larger T-buggys like maxi taxi's same C roof but with the long box. There was a guy around Milford Delaware that had one for sale a year of so ago.

Man If we could re-create that price list as well!

Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:05 am

Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:43 am

With that big Corvair engine, I bet the Pizza stays hot.

Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:09 am

Thats the one that I was saying looks like its all molded into one piece. Normally that says Boones Farm Delivery instead of Pizza

Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:28 pm

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Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:29 pm

I love the bench seat in that one

Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:10 pm

CoryN wrote: I love the bench seat in that one

X 2! That's one of the thing's I like best about the Mini-T. The only problem is that the seat bottom usually runs across the top of the tunnel and you sit real high. The sides on a Mini-T are lower than a regular buggy to begin with. Maybe a tube chassis with a narrower "tunnel", with room for seat bottoms on either side, like Barrett makes.

Another thing you could probably do with a Mini-T is run a water cooled engine on an adapter in back and put a real radiator up front in the grill.

This is my favorite Mini-T windshield.

Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:05 am

If I were going to reproduce more than one of those I'd make a left and right side mold and a roof mold so I could mail it cheap to folks who needed one, easy assembly at the destination. Could store the molds and any stock easily too. Jus sayin... 8)

Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:29 am

That windsheild is great. That would rake some effort to recreate

Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:30 am

A pair of these would look sharp too

http://www.vintagecarparts.co.uk/en/list+accessories~aeroscreen/

Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:29 pm

BL3Manx is correct that would look AWESOME!

Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:17 pm

The Berry C-cab's were all two pieces. The red rig with the black top was mine. I shouldn't have sold it. Ah well. If you see a one piece C-Cab it's been molded together by the builder. It was designed to be removable so you could run the buggy as a convertible. There's a YouTube video of a guy with a nice white one that's molded together.
I sold a second C-cab top to a fellow in the Midwest but I lost his contact info. They are huge, unwieldy pieces that require the buggy body and original windshield for a majority of their support. Hence the permanent molding by some owners I suspect. Also there is a lot of pressure at the top of the arch of the C which tends to split the fiberglass across. All of the C-cabs I've seen have this damage or had it repaired. So it's a point of reinforcement you should examine if you build one.
When I got my first C-cab, I chatted with a guy who used to work for Berry and he told me they made maybe a little over dozen C-cabs total. I've owned two of them. The red and black rig is in Washington now and I've lost track of that guy but I'm fairly certain it's rotting in a garage in Tacoma somewhere.
I have a couple bad photos of the second C-cab by itself. There's an interior glassed in ledge in the C-cab that rested on the top of the rear trunk of the buggy that would also need to be built. It was strictly fiberglass and would need to be reinforce as it cracked out pretty bad from vibration.
Let me know if I can answer anymore question you might have

Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:48 pm

Are you still in touch with the person who worked at Berry? Berry was started by a father and son, do you know if the son is still around?

Would love to see the bad photos of the C-cab.

I found the youtube video you mentioned

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ-bA-0pSNI

Its titled: dune buggy a1 bad ass street rod c cab

Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:07 pm

Actually, that gentleman found me on this site. But that was a few years ago. He told me he worked for Berry in Long Beach and that either he or the son was still around working in composites.
I rewatched the YouTube video. I was mistaken, the cab is not molded to the body. You can clearly see the separation at the base of the cab.
I'm trying to figure out how to post the photos.

Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:19 pm

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You can see really well the pressure cracks at the top of the cab. Also if you look really close in the third picture at the back of the cab on the inside, you'll see the integral glassed in shelf/ridge I was talking about.

Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:05 pm

Thank you. Now I just wish I had a couple of measurements.