Tony & Michelle Horsley
Tonys Custom Tops & Tony Horsley
This site is dedicated to my Father, Tony Horsley, who opened Tonys Custom Tops in 1962 and passed in 2016.
I began working and learning from my Father when I was just 14 pulling staples for Upholstery jobs and cutting and sewing whenever I had the chance. My dad commented many times on how I had a natural ability with this trade and by the time I was 18 I was managing a crew of eight. As time progressed I had opportunities to learn new skills within the marine industry and was responsible for the mid 1990's interior and top designs as well as vinyl graphics on Alumaweld and Motion Marine boats both of which had been long time customers of Tonys.
As time passed my dad expanded Tonys Custom Tops to include marine seating manufacturing and a small Marine supplies store in Tigard Oregon. I continued working with my Father until I was 30 at which point I took a second profession to broaden my horizons but continued building tops as a side business as I had always loved creating something with my hands and seeing happy, warm, and dry clients.
In 2008 when my Father became ill and was forced to retire, outside the occasional work I was doing under our family name Tonys Custom Tops was no more. In 2016 my father passed away...He is greatly missed.
I dedicate the continued operation of Tonys Custom Tops to him and his memory. I love & miss you dad.
I look forward to providing my father's method and our combined skill to bring you the finest convertible boat tops and Upholstery in the Northwest.
I look forward to seeing you
Jim Horsley
I began working and learning from my Father when I was just 14 pulling staples for Upholstery jobs and cutting and sewing whenever I had the chance. My dad commented many times on how I had a natural ability with this trade and by the time I was 18 I was managing a crew of eight. As time progressed I had opportunities to learn new skills within the marine industry and was responsible for the mid 1990's interior and top designs as well as vinyl graphics on Alumaweld and Motion Marine boats both of which had been long time customers of Tonys.
As time passed my dad expanded Tonys Custom Tops to include marine seating manufacturing and a small Marine supplies store in Tigard Oregon. I continued working with my Father until I was 30 at which point I took a second profession to broaden my horizons but continued building tops as a side business as I had always loved creating something with my hands and seeing happy, warm, and dry clients.
In 2008 when my Father became ill and was forced to retire, outside the occasional work I was doing under our family name Tonys Custom Tops was no more. In 2016 my father passed away...He is greatly missed.
I dedicate the continued operation of Tonys Custom Tops to him and his memory. I love & miss you dad.
I look forward to providing my father's method and our combined skill to bring you the finest convertible boat tops and Upholstery in the Northwest.
I look forward to seeing you
Jim Horsley