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{{Short description|British fabric used as a roof covering on cars}}
[[Image:Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.jpg|thumb|Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow I with dark blue Everflex]]

'''Everflex''' is a British [[textile|fabric]] used as a roof covering on [[car]]s, and is a type of [[vinyl roof]]. Everflex was used on both [[hardtop]]s and [[convertible]]s.

Its usage was popular from the 1960s to the 1980s<ref>{{Cite patent|number=US3339001A|title=Process for preparing felt-backed laminates|gdate=1967-08-29|invent1=Petry|invent2=Jecker|inventor1-first=Robert K.|inventor2-first=Justin J.|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US3339001/en}}</ref> on [[luxury car]]s.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcNaAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Everflex%22&pg=PA37 |title=Exclusive Full-Size Luxury Car |date=13 August 1982 |page=37 |newspaper=The Evening Independent |language=en |access-date=2025-03-20 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Though its popularity has greatly decreased for new vehicles, it is still manufactured as a material used to restore vehicles. The material is similar to the [[Polyvinyl chloride|vinyl]] used on most vehicles, but is more durable<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYEqAQAAMAAJ |title=Resin |journal=Paper Trade Journal |date=1959 |publisher=Vance Publishing Corporation |volume=143 |issue=14–26 |pages=69 |language=en |access-date=2025-03-20 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> and more expensive. On hardtop vehicles, fabric is placed below the Everflex material to add weight and body, often making the car look more like a genuine convertible. On older vehicles, a fabric called "Union Cloth" was used, but it quickly deteriorated, trapping water and damaging the Everflex material and roof. The Everflex is then glued down and can be screwed in around doors and windows. Notable car companies that use Everflex material are [[Rolls-Royce car|Rolls-Royce]], [[Austin-Healey]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=Gary G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSlv6EZSq-0C&dq=%22Everflex%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA124 |title=Austin-Healey 100, 100-6, 3000 Restoration Guide |publisher=MotorBooks International |isbn=978-1-61060-814-5 |pages=122 |language=en |access-date=2025-03-20 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> [[Morgan Motor Company]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wellings |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ectHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT85 |title=Buying and Maintaining a Modern Traditional Morgan |date=2018-02-19 |publisher=The Crowood Press |isbn=978-1-78500-378-3 |language=en |access-date=2025-03-20 |via=[[Google Books]]}}{{page needed|date=March 2025}}</ref> and [[Jaguar Cars]]. The feature was most popular on the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow in the early 1970s. Apart from its usage in the automotive industry, companies such as [[B. F. Goodrich]] marketed Everflex as a stronger alternative to rubber.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVMEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Everflex%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA12 |title=Everflex® Garden Hose |magazine=[[Life (magazine)|LIFE]] |date=1965-05-07 |publisher=Time Inc |pages=12 |language=en |access-date=2025-03-20 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

An unrelated [[wetsuit]] material by the name of Everflex gained popularity in the early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bReEIVMXOmgC&dq=%22Everflex%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA8 |title=Sport Diver |date=August 2004 |language=en |page=7 |access-date=2025-06-27 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NID8V5J7f3MC&dq=%22Everflex%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA7 |title=Sport Diver |date=May 2007 |language=en |page=7 |access-date=2025-06-27 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.rolls-royce-wiki.de/index.php/Everflex_(Rolls-Royce_Silver_Shadow) Everflex on Rolls-Royce cars] {{in lang|de}}{{dead link|date=March 2025}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.classicandperformancecar.com/features/theknowledge/214296/convertible_tops.html |title=Convertible tops |first=Malcolm |last=McKay |date=September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905095514/http://www.classicandperformancecar.com/features/theknowledge/214296/convertible_tops.html |archive-date=2014-09-05 |url-status=dead}}

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