Thread: 74 GTV sunroof
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Old 01-25-2004, 11:35 PM
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Existence of factory sunroofs in 105/115 GTV's is an age old question someone attempted to answer on the Alfa Digest a couple of years ago. They looked at parts catalogs and the earliest models with a sunroof was the Alfetta series and they were manual sunroofs. The power sunroof didn't appear in parts manuals until the Milano. Also someone else who has access to people who worked at ARI in New Jersey in the late 60's and 70's asked if GTV's came with factory sunroofs. Their answer:

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***NEVER HAPPENED***
Do you remember factory power sunroofs?

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***NO***
factory manual sunroofs?

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***NO***
port-installed sunroof conversions?

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***IN SOME MARKETS SUCH AS UK, YES THERE WERE***
or dealer-installed sunroof conversions on US-spec cars in the 1750 and 2000 era?

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***YES, USUALLY THROUGH ONE OF THE AUTHORIZED INSTALLERS, WEBASTO WAS COMMON AS WERE TWO OR THREE
OTHERS, HOWEVER ALL I REMEMBER WERE MANUALLY OPERATED.***
Most of the sunroofs I have seen or heard about prior to these were either clearly aftermarket products and/or German "Webasto" sunroofs.

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CORRECT!!!!!! DEALERS ALL OVER THE WORLD DID HAVE SUNROOFS INSTALLED, SOLIDS, GLASS, AND I EVEN SAW SOME FABRICS. NOT UNCOMMON AT ALL.
The source also indicated that there should be a owners manual supplement from the roof manufacturer with the car and a label inside the slide rails with the manufacturer name.
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