C'mon, Cuda, vinyl tops were cool. Except that they faded in the sun. And that the vinyl would crack. And that salt would get under them and rust away the metal. And that they were a cheap way to disguise the fact that a car had been rolled. ...
All that aside, I still am glad my '70 had a black vinyl top when the car was painted Plum Crazy. That would have been just too much purple. When I eventually had the car painted '82 Corvette White, though, the vinyl top was the first thing to go.