I've only posted about 1/2 the stuff I'm going to post from SEMA so far... it's a time consuming endeavor

Notice that in the back rims, the lines in black are from a marker, to give the idea of ridges, layers, etc while that is actually a smooth concave surface

 

the Chrysler instrument cluster has been used like this in a LOT of hot rods

the bubble top plexi is from a helicopter

JFK's 61 Lincoln Bubbletop limo... in Peru

https://kennedy-photos.blogspot.com/2013/02/page-2.html

publicity moment for the press, as it had just arrived, and they are demonstrating how it's adaptable having a hard top, or bubble top, and below... that the parade seat elevates the dignataries

https://kennedy-photos.blogspot.com/2013/02/page-2.html

I bet you never thought someone would put a bubbletop on a Porsche

this started life as a 1965 Thunderbird, then Eric Goodrich got ahold of it

and this inspired a model maker to envision a kids grocery store ride

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/110665-eric-goodrichs-iron-lung-on-the-workbench-2816/

https://nationalautobodycouncil.org/rfar-wild-card/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222788001468825&set=a.1617402035143

looks like Jeremy found one of those Plexi Top 1946 Fords, and the woman who owns the car and top is wanting to sell it.

 

notice that the car in the ad, seems to be the same car in the black and white photo below... the rearward spot lights on the back bumper for example... though the license plate and the two horizontal chrome trim pieces are missing

I posted a photo of one years ago, 

 from  https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/53023

Not the exact same car, but similar. 

As I posted before, these 1/4" plexi glass tops were made by Fabri Form, the company that made the plexiglass noses for bombers in WW2, in Bayseville, Ohio, 

The tops fasten at the same points as regular canvas tops

But of course, neither the top owner, nor Jeremy, know best how to go about that. 

I recommended getting Hagerty or Hemmings, or Bring a Trailer involved. 

Have you seen a this car with a plexiglass top before?

it might be a 47 Caddy

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6551#post-13068496

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in car on a 1959 royal visit to Canada, interesting bubble top on their Imperial, by Ghia.. Thanks Terry!

2 years after their trip in a similarly odd topped Cadillac  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/02/queen-elizabeth-and-prince-philip-in.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/117891934@N07/14110853766/

1961 Lincoln Continental Presidential Limousine - 1962 President John F. Kennedy and Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny

https://www.flickr.com/photos/117891934@N07/35981138031/

Compare it to Jackie's bubbletop:

Known by its Secret Service fleet number, 297-X, the new car was intended for more extensive use.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-first-ladies-bubbletop-lincoln.html

a bubble top in advertising tires.... hmmm

quarter-inch plexiglass 'full view' top made by the same company as windows for war planes, Fabriform Corp. of Bayseville Ohio, but introduced in Los Angeles and distributed by a local Ford agency.

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/53023

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in car on a 1957 royal visit to Canada, interesting bubble top on their Caddy

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-143#post-3019183

two years later they returned and used a 1959 Ghia bodied Imperial https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/05/queen-elizabeth-and-prince-philip-in.html

This has to be the same car, a decade later

at the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in Indianapolis in 1979.

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-123#post-3012343
http://www.jims59.com/other59s/theultimus/index.html

crazy custom high 5 to Neil in Detroit, for sharing his build on the Samba

For a fast article that spells it out without a typical forum style build with a thousand interruptions by admirers, see https://www.flatout.com.br/este-cara-esta-transformando-um-fusca-em-um-hot-rod-dos-jetsons/

or get right to the full build and photo gallery at https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8280747

https://swarfs.tumblr.com/  via   http://madkreator.tumblr.com/post/154360415003

Harley Earl himself commissioned about 5 plastic bubble tops for the new Corvette that all went to GM executives, impractical, and it's unknown how many survived

http://carzhunt.blogspot.com/2014/03/northeast-rod-and-custom-car-show.html

California Cycle Works

https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/

thanks Steve!