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Old 11-08-2005, 01:19 PM
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Default T-Top to hardtop conversion?

can it be done? has it been done? how expensive is it? how much work is involved????


anyone? i'd LOVE to have a hard top car. my days of cruising w/ the t-tops off are over - it's a racecar now.
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there was a thread somewhere about it.....IIRC they said it wasn't too hard and cost about 1K.....sorry I don't have all the info, I just breezed through that thread
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thanks....... is this question in the right forum? if i do a search in this forum would that thread come up?

i'll try.
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where did you find that thread? i did a search and came up with one from 2003 - didn't have much info and i found nothing about IIRC in there.
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well it would never reallyl ook right i dont think , but it can be done, find a very , very , very good fab/body shop around your area
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i dont exactly know where "in debt" is or im sure someone could referr you for an estimate
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well there are a lot of t-top cars on the 9s 10s... why do you want to spend money on hardtop?

btw.. i love my hardtop
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Put the glass back in. Now its a hardtop.

BTW, searching IIRC isn't gonna help you. Its an abbreviation for "If I rememeber correctly".
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lol. haha. okay- newbie error. IIRC - i thought that was a shop or something.
uhh... yea i guess the t-tops are fine, but i just LOVE the clean look of the hard top cars. maybe if i can find another hugger orange hardtop car? they're pretty rare. we'll see.
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here is the thread where it was mentioned....I believe Stenod Performance did it for Derty's car......His is the crazy *** black car on their web site

https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...top+conversion
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it's funny how theres alot of people wanting to go t-top and then only a few goint hardtop, well i'm glade i'm hard top, i get to choose from the beginin.
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The conversion is not too difficult. All of the parts for the roof, door seals, outer roof supports, etc. are all available from the dealership. A very good dealership body shop or really any good body shop in general could do the conversion for you. All the part numbers should be listed as replacement parts. The roof will need to be painted as it comes in rough finish.




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