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Old Jan 4, 2005 | 03:50 PM
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Very Nice!!!
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Old Jan 4, 2005 | 03:52 PM
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i want it damnit
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Old Jan 4, 2005 | 03:53 PM
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http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...=224386&page=3

theres more pics here of his car
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Old Jan 4, 2005 | 04:17 PM
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http://web.camaross.com/forums/showt...ighlight=targa

thats a 6 page post, and theres alot of pics of it. he said he had to make new interior panels out of carbon fiber and recover them in cloth or something. but damn it looks awesome. said it was around 1000 bucks and 100 hours of labor....but he made the new roof out of carbon fiber...reusing the original should save alot of time/money
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Old Jan 4, 2005 | 04:27 PM
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Whistler is working on my car now, I will mention this thread when i see him later. I doubt he will be doing this to anyone elses car.
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Old Jan 4, 2005 | 04:29 PM
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i dont want him to do it to my car. just a litle guidance. i also revived the oldddd thread at camaroz28.com to see if anyone else decided to do it
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Old Jan 4, 2005 | 04:35 PM
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He put the outter pieces from the T tops on the carbon fiber targa piece, a swazall to cut out the center section. Did some headliner work and thats about it.
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Old Jan 4, 2005 | 04:39 PM
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damn, sounds easy now. lol. too bad i dont have ttops.
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Your car is still a T-top car underneath the top. You just have a connecting brace on the ends (hope that makes sense) A T-top conversion is actually pretty easy and only requires a little fabrication. I almost did it on my 93, if I would have kept it I probably would have.

The Targa has a bit more "bling" factor but I would think someone with Whistlers fabrication and bodywork experience would be needed to pull it off. I don't know if its an average do it your selfer project. Of course the competence level of DIY's varies greatly But I wouldn't try it!
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the skill required is the only reason im not doing in as we speak. i want to check around, and see how much it runs professionally. but i really want it done.
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by BitViper
Erik 94TransAm.....your thinking of this one?
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Yeah, that's the car I was thinking of-his car looks awesome
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 02:17 PM
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i converted mine to t-top. it has hardtopp when i got it, look in my sig if u want whats underneath when u start cutting, shouldnt be that hard...its on pg 2 btw...
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 07:06 PM
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whistler answered one of my posts on camaroz28.com, and said i cant reuse the roof cause itll blow off at speed, which is why he used cf. soooo, i need to find some cf, or reenforce the roof with steel to make it work. or just stick with hardtop, which i might do, cause everyone has ttops..i feel special
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