Hail damage

[My3buicks]

Well, we had a big storm here yesterday late afternoon, with enough hail to shovel.  Other than the flowers and trees about being stripped of their leaves everything looked fine, well, untill I looked at the PUP and it's roof looks like a "ballpeen hammer" murderer (Axe Murderer) went at it. It has hundreds of fairly deep dents - so now what?  It's insured, but short of replacing the top(and I am sure the top would be of a newer style) which wouldn't be cost effective on a 78 what other alternatives are there?  After all that work restoring it!!!

PS: called and a top would be $1561 including shipping plus another $300 to install it and it would be a newer style and white.

[Recumbentman]

Nice looking PU for its age. I have had similar damage done to my old PU with my son playing basket ball next to the PU. oh well !!! as long as the roof was not punctured. I would leave it alone. Who knows what mother nature will do in the future !!

[fallsrider]

Nice looking PU for its age. I have had similar damage done to my old PU with my son playing basket ball next to the PU. oh well !!! as long as the roof was not punctured. I would leave it alone. Who knows what mother nature will do in the future !!

I concur. Our pup has a few dings in the roof that look like hail damage with a previous owner. But as long as it doesn't leak, I would leave it be. For that amount of money, I could live with the dings.

[uchwear]

Ours has large dings all over the top from a hailstorm.  We haven't had any problems so far with it.  We just bought it a few months back but I know the former owner and he didn't have any problems either.

[robpoe]

Mine has hail damage on the top - looks like an angry horde of ball peen hammers attacked..

Is that the Kansas version of Killer Bees?

[tlhdoc]

My old PU had hail damage on the roof.  It didn't leak so I didn't worry about it.  If it really bothers you, you can fill in the dents and then paint the whole roof.

[genre]

Sorry to hear about the damage especially after that great restoration job.
As mentioned by others, if the roof isn't pierced, I would leave it.