Flexible top for soft-top motor vehicles

Claim 1

A flexible top for soft-top motor vehicles having an articulated framework which can assume an extended condition covering the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle and a folded, noncovering condition, wherein the improvement consists in: said flexible top including rigid glass rear window, a strip of flexible material having one longitudinal edge joined to the lower edge of said window and an opposite longitudinal edge joined to the body of the motor vehicle so that the window can be pivoted between a raised operative position and a lowered rest position in which it is received within said passenger compartment; said flexible top defining an aperture in correspondence with said rear window so that, in the raised position of said window, the lateral and upper edges of the latter are in sealing contact with the inner surface of said top adjacent the edge of said aperture and said flexible top being further provided with flexible connecting means which connect said rear window to said top in such a way as to maintain said window in its raised position when said top is in its extended covering condition, whereby the rear window is automatically displaced between its operative position and its rest position solely by the manual movements of opening and closing top.